Natural injustice

Reserve game

Kaziranga loses 10 tigers

Elephantine block

A wall to keep elephants at bay ends up alienating people in an Uttarakhand village

The bare essentials

To make community forest management a success

Poaching led to record rhino deaths in Kaziranga

Forest dwellers intensify protest

21 years on, profit sharing under joint forest management remains unclear in Maharashtra

Forest dwellers intensify protest

21 years on, profit sharing under joint forest management remains unclear in Maharashtra

Panna’s poaching nexus exposed

Staff of the tiger reserve worked hand in glove with poachers, while the state government kept its eyes tightly shut

Melghat Malaise

This first of three Down To Earth analyses of tiger reserves finds Melghat in Maharashtra in a legal mess

Uncertain future

Villages in the sanctuary

Tree-fellers turn forest guardians in Bangladesh

Indian Forest Service officials complain of anomalies in revised pay scales

Tree is not timber

Bone of contention

Neither Project Tiger nor the eco-development project can end the conflicts between the forest officials and the villagers in Ranthambhore

Wildlife sanctuary lost 230 ha to fire in the past four months

Whither freedom?

Post independence, governments expanded squeezing village republics out of existence

THE FOUNTAINHEAD DONGRIPARA, DHAMTARI DISTRICT, CHATTISGARH

Spark came from non-recognition as a village • Integrated management of forest and water • Sees self-governance as a matter of …

THE SECOND INDEPENDENCE

Tiny forgotten villages teach India a firsthand lesson in governance. Down To Earth reporters and photographers fan out to six states to discover …

A memo to the government

To be a truly participatory republic, India must take tutorials from these tiny republics

In Birsa's Land: Horomocho (Hazaribagh, Jharkhand)

A coal mine to own and manage • Sustainability not profit as a principle • Revival of an ancient Santhal system of governance

Unshakable: Nimalapedu (Vishakapatnam, Andhra Pradesh)

Reminded India of its constitutional mandate for village autonomy • Fought bauxite companies for not getting gram sabha consent • Has …

A Republican Paradise: Mendha (Gadchirolli, Maharashtra)

Defied the Forest Act ÔÇó Every resident contributes part of annual income for community works ÔÇó If somebody bribes a …

Afforestation wages in cash

Chhattisgarh violates Supreme Court order

What led to forest officer’s killing

In Andhra Pradesh, revenue department gives land to poor, forest department wants it back