Old forests are critically important for slowing climate change and merit immediate protection from logging

A majority of national forest area that is mature and old growth is not protected from logging

‘Indigenous people have been effective stewards of biodiversity globally’

Down To Earth speaks to University of Connecticut professor Prakash Kashwan about his book, Democracy in the Woods

It’s a hot potato for PepsiCo and farmers

The corporate giant claims that the farmers are cultivating their proprietary FC5 potatoes without permission

Chhattisgarh govt keeps poll promise, starts review of rejected FRA claims

The step is a reflection of how issues related to FRA have become politically relevant, say activists

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 …

In 10 states, compensatory afforestation violating forest rights and conservation laws

All the 52 compensatory afforestation plantations in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Odisha were taken up on community forest lands

Civil society criticises Centre’s Global Wildlife Programme, doubts minister’s claims

The Global Wildlife Programme has been launched in partnership with World Bank and United Nations Development Programme to curb illegal wildlife …

UPA announces poll sop for tribals

Centre promises 150 days of work to tribal households under MGNREGA

‘State has tendu trade right’

Expert panel report denies forest dwellers this lucrative right

Kaziranga simmers on fringes

People take to streets against eviction notices and tiger reserve tag

Verdict aftershock

Give us 18 sq km

Voters retaliate with boycott

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

Changes to Forest Conservation Rules dilute forest rights, say tribal communities

Consent from forest dwellers not mandatory for changing land use under new amendments; Activists demand withdrawal

Panel looking into pastoral communities’ forest rights to visit J&K

The committee was constituted by the Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs on February 21, 2020

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

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