MONITORING FOREST

BRAZIL

Crying foul

Orissa's JFM groups resent move to set up forest bodies

Sulia takes charge

Participatory management brings forests back

Forests for people

Newly democratic Bhutan pushes community forestry to tackle rural poverty  

Collective efforts can combat challenges faced by ultra-poor in Jharkhand

The intersection of caste, gender & occupational identities impacts their lives

Odisha forest department announces cash reward for rescuing gharials

Fishermen, whose nets are damaged by gharials, will also be compensated

Catch me if you can

People protect forest

Blueprints for change

Whose forest is it, anyway?

The green guards

Van Gujjars lead the way in forest management by forming a voluntary protection force

Women and forests

A study probes the role of women in afforestation programmes

Oily mess

The US environment protection agency pulls up polluting oil companies

THAILAND

Double whammy

Two proposed moves that could drastically alter forest management in India

UNITED NATIONS

Forests grump

United Nations Forum on Forests fails to propose reforms

Narendra Modi flags off UN migratory species meet; brings up Joint Forest Management

PM skips any mention of Forest Rights Act in speech to CMS CoP13 at Gandhinagar

Shrinking cover

Forests are disappearing at an alarming rate the world-over, says a recent study

Talking green

Participants at an international conference on forest management discuss ways to curb logging

COMMUNITY PROTECTION

Protectors of the forest

Saara adivasis in Orissa have undertaken measures to conserve forest wealth

COSTA RICA

Illusive relief

For Nepal's forest users