‘You may like to make sure that PIL does not succeed’
State wildlife warden sends friendly warning to tourism industry
Protectors dubbed criminals
Tribals in Madhya Pradesh celebrate festival to reclaim forests; officials say they are encroaching land
Rajasthan HC issues orders against encroachments in Ranthambore
Jumbo conflict
Human-elephant conflict is rising across India. Every year nearly 400 people are killed by elephants and about 100 elephants lose their lives. …
Disowned 100,000
Taungyas have lived in Uttar Pradesh for decades but law does not recognise them. FRA gives hope
Forest department’s cheat act
Omits crucial community rights from claim papers of Gadchiroli villages
Indigenous civil engineers
Traditional earth diggers and masons, who mined the Bhatti area of the Aravallis for decades, dig in their heels as the Delhi administration …
Losers again
A tale of two interpretations
Aparna Pallavi recounts struggles of residents of a tiny village in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra to get ownership of forest resources
Age of dissent
Six villages in Madhya Pradesh reject Centre’s proposal to declare their forest a wildlife sanctuary
Taungyas get legal recognition
Land titles distributed to 651 families in six Uttar Pradesh villages
Grasping at grass
Maldharis resort to Forest Rights Act as forest department plans to restrict grazing on Banni grassland
Struck at the root
Livelihood of 2,000 families is threatened as the Maharashtra forest department tries to ban extraction of lotus roots
How government is subverting Forest Rights Act
Does this official data betray a conspiracy? Only 1.6 per cent of the 2.9 million claims approved under the Forest Rights Act recognise community …
Tricks of diminishing returns
Clever calculations and the great wall of bureaucracy
A new roadblock
Tribal affairs ministry objects to Maharashtra's Village Forest Rules that violate FRA. Other ministeries pressure it to backtrack
Jungle raj
CAG memo shows IFS officers are administering country’s premier forestry research body like a fiefdom
Is JFM relevant?
Two Acts give people rights. JFM only promised partnership
The rift valley
With no income options, Ghangharia residents want forestland for hotels
Letters
Halfway through
Tribal affairs ministy attempts to give forest dwellers their due welfare benefits, through a compromise