Forest Survey Report 2021: India’s growing stock increases due to trees outside forests

Mango, neem, mahua and coconut are trees outside forests that contribute most to India’s growing stock

Forest Survey Report 2021: 11 states have lost forest cover; 21 have lost good forests

India’s forest cover has increased by just 1,540 sq km in two years, mostly due to plantation and agroforestry

Agenda: Forests for real

We need fifth-generation forest reforms that will secure forests for growth and livelihood

Paper forests: India’s missing stretches of green

The most bad news is what the biennial forest survey report leaves unsaid

Forest Survey report 2021: Over 45% of India’s forests will become ‘climate hotspots’ by 2030

By 2050, 64% of India’s forest and tree cover is likely to face ‘high severity’ of climate change

Simply Put: Save India’s forests

Maharashtra gives reserved forests status to mangroves

Mangroves on privately owned land are not a part of this notification

Next hearing in FRA case on September 12

Apex court asks all states to file affidavits within 15 days

Over 57k hectares of forest land diverted in Odisha, says new report

Most of the forest land (28,409 hectares) was diverted for 186 mining projects

FRA: Deadline gone, states yet to submit data on rejected claims to FSI

The Supreme Court had ordered states that had not given requisite data to the FSI by August 31

FSI shall take 16 years to complete encroachment survey in FRA case

Only four states have sent their data to the body so far

What are the political drivers for land rights of forest-dependent communities?

Prakash Kashwan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut. His research and scholarship focuses …

Forest fires in India tripled in the last four months

Five southern states account more than a third of fires in 2019

Forest Survey Report 2021: India’s mountainous states, already facing climate change, lose forest cover

Jammu and Kashmir has lost very dense forests, while the North East is top in terms of total forest area loss

Himachal villages claim community forest rights for the first time

Threatened by an eviction notice, villages come forward to claim their community rights

Forest Survey Report 2021: Overall decadal decline in forest cover in India’s 52 tiger reserves, Gir

Tiger reserves in India have lost 22.62 sq km of forest over the last decade while Gir has lost 33.43 sq km

Plantations, invasive species... what all India counts as ‘forest’

Forest survey should move beyond measuring area to studying quality of forests, say experts    

Every northeastern state reports loss in forest cover: State of India’s Forest Report 2021

Manipur recorded the largest loss in forest cover

India’s green cover has increased, but outside demarcated forests

Latest state of forests report shows increase of green cover by 5,871 sq km; most of the increase is owing to plantations

Study urges government to grant community rights to local forest dwellers

In tribal-dominated areas of the country, forests have always been traditionally managed by local communities

Commercial harvest of degraded forests on cards?

Environment minister Prakash Javadekar's statement that government is considering plan to harvest open forests goes against the policy of …

Most forest fires this year were in and around national parks, sanctuaries

About seven to eight incidents of big forest fires have been reported from across the country; fire that broke out on Nagaland’s Mount Japfu,…

Dense forests lost; increase in net green cover: Forest Survey of India 2015

While northeastern states are the most hit, Andaman & Nicobar Islands gained maximum forests

India’s forest cover declines

North-eastern states and tribal districts witness unprecedented forest loss

Green cover in tribal areas increases

Green activists and tribal community have been fighting against government-aided coal and mine expansion programmes for long now