Community Participation and Sustainable Forest Development Global Perspective

Illusive relief

For Nepal's forest users

In a sorry state

India's forests and the Forest Survey of India need a fresh lease of life, reveals new report

Cutting losses?

Compensatory afforestation in trouble

Remote control

Return our forests

S C Tripura, a Congress party member of  the Tripura legislative assembly, talks to  Nitin Sethi about the consequences of  …

What are the political drivers for land rights of forest-dependent communities?

Prakash Kashwan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut. His research and scholarship focuses …

Simply Put: ‘Crypto’ forests

Draft National Forest Policy cleared; Cabinet to take decision

Experts say the focus of the draft will be on water conservation

The people are covered

People's rights over forests are legally unassailable

Outlaw enforcement

Another disincentive to sound forest management for Indians

Future of our forests

Experts discuss ways to improve forest policies in India

Sandal act

Winds of change in the scented wood

Trading deforestation

How China's growing wood imports are affecting its neighbours

JPC's good work on Tribal Bill

JPC suggestions go beyond forest rights paradigm

An axe that went awry

Himachal Pradesh’s decision to put wasteland in land bank undermines FRA

The state’s request to put degraded forest land in a land bank comes at a time when the government has been dragging its feet on …

Spirit of forest law being quashed in Gujarat

Petitioners approach Gujarat High Court over rejection of 1,13,000 claims out of the 1,82,000 individual claims from across the 13 districts

COVID-19 has aggravated challenges to manage forests: UN Report

New UN report calls for greater sustainability and a greener, more inclusive economy to tackle the threats of COVID-19, climate change and …

Making a killing

Only poachers profit from rules and regulations that alienate local people from natural resources

Branches into batons

The Forest Bill can be used to preserve our verdant national wealth

NIGER

Suspect diagnosis

World Bank's take on Indian forestry sector motivated

Lack of indigenous people’s participation big barrier to mainstreaming of biodiversity: FAO

Some 15 per cent of global forests are managed as community resources by indigenous peoples and local communities

Missing the woods: The story of India’s vanishing forests in 20 cards

Some 25.87 million hectares of forest is missing from the latest assessment of India’s green cover. Here are some cards that tell the story