Backroom deals

Is US roping in India on the sly to subvert Kyoto Protocol?

Brazil passes Atlantic Forest Exploitation and Preservation Law

Reality check

Wealth of forests withheld

Forest departments across the country owe millions of rupees to communities. For 20 years communities toiled under the Joint Forest Management …

Tricks of diminishing returns

Clever calculations and the great wall of bureaucracy

Freeing bamboo from the state

A recent notification making bamboo a minor forest produce can only be the first step

Meaning of 'forest' set to change in India

How should a 'forest' be defined in India? The Union ministry of environment and forests is currently preoccupied with this question. Placing …

Rural communities win right over bamboo, finally

Environment minister warns of legal action if forest officials refuse transit passes

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DTE reportage on bamboo

The unfolding story

Sierra Leone freezes timber export

Is bamboo a tree or a grass?

A new roadblock

Tribal affairs ministry objects to Maharashtra's Village Forest Rules that violate FRA. Other ministeries pressure it to backtrack

Seeing land for trees

Saving Amazon rainforests

Rights without benefits

Over 1.3 million tribals and forest dwellers have got rights over the land they had been using for years under the Forest Rights Act. This can, …

Letters

The big idea for change: bamboo as grass

Halfway through

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

Bamboo rising

Five years after it was implemented, the Forest Rights Act finally takes root. Communities across the country rush to claim rights over forests …

Bhutan’s experiments with happiness

The idyllic Buddhist kingdom believes that peace and happiness should take preference over material growth. In a world beset by inequities and …