Odisha announces state forest rights scheme to benefit over 7 lakh households

‘Mo Jungle Jami Yojana’ is aimed to effectively implement Forest Rights Act, 2006 in the state

Fight for forest rights: Why these Dhamtari Adivasis gave up over 100 acres of cropland to plant trees

Forest dwellers of Karipani and Budra villages were put through a trial by fire to prove they care about conservation

Simply put: Pathalgadi & Media

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?

Bamboo now a minor forest produce

Grassroots victory

FRA emboldens tribals in Dudhwa to demand control over grass

Forest rights

SC takes stock of Forest Rights Act

Touch that heals trees

Court allows forest pattas in Andhra

Centre stops work at POSCO site

Committee reports violation of tribal and forest rights

Tribals challenge forest department

For mining Tadoba tiger reserve

IFR review: Here are some possible repercussions of rejecting reviewed forest right claims

Some 1.688 million people, whose claims have been re-rejected, face threat of eviction and food security

'Village forests have been pitted against community rights'

The proposed amendment of IFA is an attempt to keep power in the hands of the forest bureaucracy by playing up village forests against community …

'Sir… if we define forests, it could create many loopholes'

Union forest ministry’s reply to parliamentary committee’s query on absence of a clear definition of forests  

Critical Wildlife Habitat guidelines issued; NTCA order superseded  

Forest rights activists criticise Ministry of Tribal Affairs' decision to accept the guidelines without making any revisions or inviting comments …

How natural resources doomed UPA

Management of natural resources will be the toughest job for the new government

Split approach

Like neighbours

Maharashtra muddies bamboo rights

Activists say forest department trying to dilute Forest Rights Act

Bamboo still a distant dream

No village in Maharashtra other than Mendha Lekha has been able to access bamboo

La farce

Bamboo freed

Maharashtra village India’s first to win right to harvest bamboo. Eyes now on other forest produce

Forest alert

Saxena panel report on Niyamgiri puts states under watch for forest, tribal rights violations

Tribal ministry panels draft fresh guidelines for community forest, habitat rights

Gram Sabhas may get more power in managing community forest, habitat