Timeline of an unwarranted act: How India has legislated on forests
Does independent India's first amendment to the Indian Forest Act reflect the changes in forest policy?
Lost in the jungle
The anti-people attitude that environmental NGOs had vehemently opposed in the '80s has resurfaced in the recent draft Forest Policy Bill. The …
To Russia, with love
Russia's forests receive a shot in the arm following a recent international decision to protect them from logging
Telangana’s new forest conflict panels bring Centre-state land rights relation under scanner
FRA empowers Gram Sabhas and the committees headed by the sub collectors and the district collectors to determine and recognise the forest rights …
New model agriculture law aims to increase farmers’ income
The draft law proposes to ensure profitable returns to farmers through features such as electronic registration, direct sale to buyers and …
Streamlining forest protection law
States are complaining that project clearance delays are turning out to be the worst fallout of the Forest Conservation Act, which has otherwise …
Letting go of the colonial hangover should be the goal of the new forest policy
Forest department in India needs to reverse its role from being the owner and regulator of forests to becoming a facilitator in community-managed …
Plant 10-15 trees to create oxygen banks: Javadekar
The minister was addressing students on the occasion of International Day of Forests
A village in Maharashtra stands up for its rights
Residents of Lavari have blocked the construction of a transmission line to demand compensation for livelihood loss
Govt needs to address policy ambiguities affecting shifting cultivation: NITI Aayog
The NITI Aayog report recommends doing away with the practice of having divergent approaches towards shifting cultivation
Forests, tribals and wildlife are not rivals, says environment minister
Anil Madhav Dave inaugurates two-day conference of senior-level forest officers from states
Foliage fever
Galvanising support for the unconditional withdrawal of the new Forest Bill, NGOs and a fifth column within the bureaucracy are harrowing the …
All bark, all bite
Local communities in Nepal and some Central American nations have become invaluable participants in managing their forests
Rights over forests
THE SAGA OF PARTICIPATORY FOREST MANAGEMENT IN INDIA· N C Saxena·CIFOR Special Publication, Jakarta, 1997
If passed, new forest policy will benefit private sector and hurt local ecology: experts
The draft policy talks about developing “public private participation models” for undertaking “afforestation and reforestation …
In the Parliament on March 8, 2016
Here’s a round-up of today’s debates and reports on environmental and developmental issues
India’s first forest-certification scheme gets global recognition
A Geneva-based non-profit recently decided to endorse the Certification Standard for Sustainable Forest Management designed for Indian forests
10 good news we got in 2018
As this year nears its end, here’s a look at stories by Down To Earth that brought some relief to an otherwise climate change-ravaged period
Bandwagon role for joint forestry
Though programmes involving villagers in the regeneration of forest lands have been successful, caution should be exercised while bringing new …
Fights for space
Once harmonious, the human-elephant relationship has taken an ugly turn. Faulty forest policies and nationwide destruction of elephant habitats …
A brigand called government
Whatever the outcome of the hostages crisis in Karnataka, stupid sandalwood protection laws will keep creating smugglers out of India's exploited …
Nepal squeezes forest users
The community forest user groups of Nepal will now be required to cough up a steep 40 per cent fee on their total income from sale of forest products
Suddenly tribal
Some wildlifers resorted to outdated anthropology to stop the tribal forest rights bill. They failed
Melbourne could go the Cape Town way: Study
A large forest near the city is on the brink of collapse, in turn endangering the city’s water supply
Final National Forest Policy to be out soon
Most comments in the draft policy concern with the dilution of the Forest Rights Act and opening up forest land for private players