Goa's dark side

Hidden from public eye, miners and politicians are ravaging Goa's forests and drinking water reservoirs, finds Sugandh Juneja

Return of the woods

Two decades of toil have given back to Seed village in Udaipur a forest that villagers felt had been destroyed forever

PM, CM in title clash

Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijay Singh are playing the blame game over the settlement of tribal …

Ethos of a sinking space: Fishers in Sundarbans surmount tiger attacks, bureaucracy to earn livelihoods

They also struggle with dwindling fish stocks and unknown fish diseases 

Southeast Asia enveloped in haze

The primary cause of the haze has been hundreds of forest fires in Indonesia

CAMPA funds should be used to conserve nature

Increase in funding has not resulted in significant increase in forest cover

Green milestone

Green school

Future tense

Blocking biopiracy

Saving Tasmania's forests

Peasants, loggers clash

Uganda clamps down on forest encroachers

MFP Sustains 275 million people

Algeria suffers from devastating wildfires, but faces big challenges in addressing them

Dozens of forest fires have raged through forest areas across northern Algeria. At least 90 people have reportedly died so far 

States with declining tiger population have highest diversion of forests for mining

Data shows that Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Telangana and Andhra lost forest land to mining during the period their tiger numbers declined

A tree grown outside forest is a tree protected inside forest

Can we do away with permits, allow forestry-based economy to grow and still increase forest cover, protect wildlife and conserve our ecology?

For environmental rights defenders, 2016 was the deadliest year on record

India emerged the fourth deadliest country in the world for land and environmental rights activists

Scientists find new bacterium from Sundarbans

New bacterial species could have wider applications in industrial sectors such as leather and textile industry

Hello, lets save those trees

Protest calls spread far and wide against the logging of ancient rain orests by a US company for manufacturing its phone books

Bamboo rights: Maharashtra gives priority to paper mill over Forest Rights Act

Chief Minister Prithvi Raj Chavan says agreement with Ballarpur Industries predates the Act

East Africa unites with UN, Interpol to curb illegal logging

Global partnership seeks to check deforestation and crossborder illegalities in timber trade

US steps up efforts to protect forests; bars development projects

India's sawmill policy filled with loopholes

India's sawmill regulation

How can India overcome policy and institutional gaps in forest management

We need to recognise the Gram Sabha as empowered by the 73rd Constitutional Amendment