Clampdown on Vedanta

Alumina refinery’s illegal expansion under scanner

We need conservation frameworks that empower, incorporate forest dwelling communities

The history of Project Tiger, which completed 50 years this year, reveals systemic exclusion of oppressed caste forest-dwelling communities

Forest paradox

To give forest dwellers their due rights, forest governance must go beyond the environment and include the communities at stake

Let’s talk

On February 24, Centre for Science and Environment raised the curtains for the Anil Agarwal Dialogues on green clearances. The two-day conclave …

Disowned 100,000

Taungyas have lived in Uttar Pradesh for decades but law does not recognise them. FRA gives hope

Losers again

‘Dilution of forest rights, interference by environment ministry unconstitutional’

Tribal groups raise concerns regarding delay in recognition of Community Forest Rights

Nomads fenced in

Maharashtra on way to ban illegal graziers from other states

Finally, community forest rights

Tribals of BR Hills can now manage resources in Karnataka reserve

Forest department’s cheat act

Omits crucial community rights from claim papers of Gadchiroli villages  

POSCO gets final clearance

Environment ministry sides with Odisha government, ignores people’s forest rights

How to approach environmentalism

POSCO review body divided

Members differ on steel giant’s compliance with regulations

Posco stumbles

Centre asks the steel giant to get forest dwellers’ consent  

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 …

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

State inaction

The traditional forest dweller has had very few entitlements down centuries. Guardian of the forest, he has been regarded as encroacher by the …

‘Forest department is the encroacher’

When V Kishore Chandra Deo became the Union Minister for Panchayati Raj and Tribal Affairs three months ago, both the ministries were in inertia.…

Women in Odisha village take charge to fast track community forest rights

This isn’t the first time women have come together to not only protect forests, but also voice their demand for recognition of the Forest …

Are mainstream parties in Bengal hijacking Adivasi political narratives for votebank?

Protests over cultural, political and ecological rights are growing louder

Mizoram revokes Forest Rights Act

State government misused Article 371 (G) to revoke FRA in Mizoram, critics allege

Forest dwellers in Himachal’s Kangra district soon to get rights under FRA

The district’s forest dwellers have filed 81 individual and 43 community rights claims so far

Odisha tribal department writes to collectors on FRA rejected claim review

The letter gives detailed instructions to district collectors about how to take up appeals and reviews of all rejected Individual Forest Right …

Indian Forest Act: What the proposed amendment entails

The government is all set to amend the colonial Indian Forest Act, and make it more biased against forest dwellers

These 2 Odisha villages wrangle over forest land, but maintain harmony

The people of Tilabadi and Mittukuli share their resources, welcome guests and celebrate festivals together despite claiming a chunk of land …