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Forest talk

An international forum on forests promises to bring in real change

Forest Survey Report 2021: 11 states have lost forest cover; 21 have lost good forests

India’s forest cover has increased by just 1,540 sq km in two years, mostly due to plantation and agroforestry

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 6, 2019)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Madhya Pradesh forest department violates FRA, seizes tendu leaves from tribals

The leaves were reportedly confiscated as the women were selling them to buyers other than the forest department

Celebrating WSF 2004

When 80,000 people talk it makes noise. So it wasn't unusual for the fourth World Social Forum (WSF) in Mumbai to be snidely called a huge '…

MoEFCC’s actual expenditure reduced by nearly 20% of budget estimates: Parliamentary report

The committee noted a drastic reduction under the National Coastal Mission 2023-24

Preference to natives

Six-fold increase in forest fires as temperatures rise in many states

The Forest Survey of India’s large forest fires monitoring programme data shows that there are 192 large, active fires in the country today

Forests can keep our planet cool

Improving our forests and farm practices offers a low-risk path for climate mitigation, while securing the lives of traditional communities

Tribal ministry tells states to stop rejecting FRA claims on invalid grounds

In a letter dated June 27, Leena Nair, the then secretary, Ministry of Tribal Affairs had written to the chief secretaries of states raising …

Top committee for diverting forests recommends penalties for violating projects

The Forest Advisory Committee has said the environment ministry imposes “inconsistent and arbitrary" penalties

How not to grow trees

Planting a tree is now bound up in so much restriction and red tape that it is not worth the effort

Forest conservation receives government recognition

The 14th Finance Commission of India has reinforced the idea of incentivising states for keeping areas under forests

Uttar Pradesh police arrest national forest union chief for protesting against Kanhar dam project

In April, the police had opened fire on villagers peacefully protesting at the dam site

Sylvan overhaul

Constitution and agenda declared for forestry panel

Forest Rights Act: From rights on paper to rights in practice

Local civil society organisations play a vital role in helping forest-dwelling communities assert and exercise their collective rights

‘Give us our forest back’

An unprecedented people’s movement might have forced the Odisha government to cancel a beer factory project, but there are many unresolved …

India fails to protect property rights of indigenous and rural women, says report

None of the 30 low and middle-income countries analysed met the standards of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination …

Betrayed

Nepal's forest bureaucracy prepares for the funeral of the much-hailed community forest management programme

Vanishing green

Turncoat 'thieves'

Former teak smugglers become official forest guards

Money does grow on trees

Wildlife Week: Improved fielding can help overcome sour relations at Pilibhit Tiger Reserve

Human-wildlife conflict has led to strained relationships between villagers and forest staff