Making slow headway

Hurdles in the way of a buffer zone in Arunachal tiger reserve

Bull to bull's eye

Redemption from litter

Uttarakhand non-profits have taken responsibility for clearing tourists’ plastic waste

‘Forests can’t survive without communities’

Nepal’s Forest Act of 1993, which allows communities to manage their forests, is admired and emulated by governments and movements across …

Promised Moon, Paid Pittance - Madhya Pradesh

Not so lovely fair trade

They also serve

Though it controls 23.4 per cent of the country's land, the Indian Forest Service has little administrative clout. For long the stepchild of …

Let the wind chase fire

Soligas of BR Hills say litter fire is the only way to salvage the sanctuary

Lost in interpretation - Maharashtra

Bamboo sale for bamboo rights

A Maharashtra village demands rights to transport and sell forest produce

Sour and sweet - Gujarat

High-risk trade

MFP is a renewable, reliable source of income, but faces many threats

Colonial hangover persists

Forest Act Amendment Bill maintains the forest department as the supreme controlling agency

Diversion route

Trespassers allowed

Unregulated tourism around the Corbett Tiger Reserve has restricted animal movement  

No transparency - Andhra Pradesh

Among the non-believers

A forester’s  perspective on green governance

Missing timber for wood

As the demand-supply gap for timber widens in India, it is time to exploit the potential of private plantations and government-managed forests in …

Forest officials kept eyes tightly shut

When it was found there were no tigers in the Panna Tiger Reserve, P K Sen was called to join the government special investigation team. …

Village bullied for using its forest

Forest department registers offence against a gram sabha for felling bamboo clusters

Bamboo still a distant dream

No village in Maharashtra other than Mendha Lekha has been able to access bamboo

Bamboo freed

Maharashtra village India’s first to win right to harvest bamboo. Eyes now on other forest produce

Forest rights and wrongs in Sonbhadra

Forcible eviction of tribals in Sonbhadra exposes forest rights faultlines

Koyna sanctuary plundered

Koyna Wildlife Sanctuary is threatened by ceaseless loot of land, with government help

‘You may like to make sure that PIL does not succeed’

State wildlife warden sends friendly warning to tourism industry