‘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

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Halfway through

Tribal affairs ministy attempts to give forest dwellers their due welfare benefits, through a compromise

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