Wreaking havoc
COSTA RICA
Roasted and poached
Forest fires are a boon for poachers in Uttaranchal
UNITED NATIONS
The axe effect
Orissa lifts a ban on tree felling; faces logic crunch
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 13, 2024)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Poorer countries more exposed to fire-induced air pollution: Study
The exposure levels were particularly high in several hotspots like Central Africa, Southeast Asia, South America and Siberia
Forest conservation & consent: How Gram Sabhas halted risky projects in the past
The new rules for the the Forest Conservation Act (FCA) gazetted June 28, have repealed and replaced the earlier 2003 Forest Conservation Rules …
Community forest rights at work: Chhattisgarh’s Chargaon reaps benefits in first year itself
Gram Sabhas, Community Forest Management Committee, non-profits join hands to streamline processes in Chargaon Naya Basti
World’s coldest regions have been on fire in 2021, even in winter: Copernicus
Wildfires in 2021 mostly occurred in Siberia, North America, North Africa and the Mediterranean
One square meal: How this non-tribal forest-dweller family survives without FRA recognition in Odisha
Srikumar Khadi’s claim to his land in Odisha’s Sundergarh district is over a century old; but it still awaits recognition
Why the Dangs has not been able to implement FRA properly
The ‘real owner’ of forest land is still the forest department. Such brazen violation of the law betrays a systematic attempt to …
Chhattisgarh High Court prevents PSU from evicting forest rights title holders
Chhattisgarh Mineral Development Corporation had started mining in Sarguja district’s Pathrai village, where 50 Individual Forest Rights …
Nasa satellite imagery finds tremendous changes in Amazon in last 40 years
The scale of losses in forests land, increase in pasture land, shift in land use policy driven by economic forces are seen nowhere else in the world
Centre, US agency launch Forest-PLUS 2.0
Five-year programme to focus on improving status of forests in three terrains in Bihar, Kerala and Telangana
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
Sonbhadra women, others seek to participate in Supreme Court FRA hearing
Two ST women demand “equal and independent” rights to women over forest land
Haryana police encroaches upon forest land to build training centre, residential complex: RTI
At both the sites, the cops have not procured any permissions and cut thousands of fully grown trees
Vishweshwar D Saklani (1922-2019): The calm tree man of India
A freedom fighter, conservationist and a scientist who truly heard the voice of trees, Mr Saklani is a role model for future generations
Green clearances are being increasingly treated as a mere formality
In the garb of streamlining green clearances, the Union government has sidelined communities and diluted environmental regulations over the past …
100 gram sabhas in Odisha’s Kalahandi district to assert rights on bamboo, kendu
In Odisha, both these commodities are nationalised, thereby curtailing the rights of the people on them
Implementation of forest rights in protected areas virtually non-existent, claims new report
Implementation of FRA in protected areas has been virtually non-existent and claims filed under FRA lie pending for as long as since 2009
Centre’s new guidelines on compensatory afforestation ignore communities’ concerns
Guidelines have tried to address the challenge of land scarcity for compensatory afforestation but have fallen short of clarifying minimum …
Honey, they shrunk our livelihoods!
Honey collectors gamble with their lives to eke out a livelihood in the Sundarbans, but are forced to sell it to the forest department for a pittance
India is third largest importer of illegally-logged wood: IUFRO
With an annual import value of over Rs 40 billion, the country accounts for close to 10 per cent of the global illegal wood trade