Uttarakhand lets in: Migrants bring city, drop sustainability

Scarcity, conservation, equitable and fair use of limited resources does not apply to them.

Hunger strike for FRA implementation continues in Chhattisgarh; state yet to respond

Government has given land under the Individual Forest Rights titles, which is way less than what people originally occupied

Himachal Pradesh forest fires: Dhamarshala, Kasauli pine for respite

Extremely high summer temperature and inflammable pine needles causing fire to engulf forests in the state

Forest Rights Act: Who is the encroacher and who is encroached upon

Thirteen years after a historic law was formulated to give forest dwellers legal ownership of their traditional land, their fate still hangs in …

'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 …

Tribal affairs ministry’s report on FRA riddled with discrepancies

Area of forest land recognised reduced, more titles distributed than approved

FRA helps Dhenkanal tribals gain land rights

Their ancestors were brought in as workers nearly a century ago by the former princely state

Two incidents that made me ask: Whither forestry extension?

Extension programmes in forest institutions are meant to benefit stakeholders, mainly farmers, villagers and rural communities

Nearly 213 ha in protected areas diverted between April and July

Standing committee of the National Board for Wildlife approved 21 projects for diversion, deferred 7 for later

Nearly 500 ha forest land in protected areas diverted in 2019

Standing committee of the National Board for Wildlife gave nod to carry out 68 projects in protected areas 

India continues to lose forest land to non-forestry projects

Central environment ministry reports diversion of 11,467 hectares forest land in 2019 (up to first week of November)