Himalayan oak forests under threat

Forest degradation and climate change behind Uttarakhand floods, say local people

Planting trouble

Managing the woods

Sustainable forest management is a concept hostage to many global players

Hackers' paradise

A weak environmental regime in Brazil allows free rein to Asian logging companies to plunder through the Amazon forests

Earth quake

Losers again

A tale of two interpretations

Aparna Pallavi recounts struggles of residents of a tiny village in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra to get ownership of forest resources

Dense cover-up

What's the purpose of the State of Forest Report 2003 ?

Woman power

When the men of Dengajhari failed, women took up arms to protect their forests

Lone crusader

At personal risk, an unlettered farmer vows to stick to his forest protection programme

Sulia takes charge

Participatory management brings forests back

How bamboo was liberated

Bamboo rising

Five years after it was implemented, the Forest Rights Act finally takes root. Communities across the country rush to claim rights over forests …

Meaning of 'forest' set to change in India

How should a 'forest' be defined in India? The Union ministry of environment and forests is currently preoccupied with this question. Placing …

Protectors dubbed criminals

Tribals in Madhya Pradesh celebrate festival to reclaim forests; officials say they are encroaching land

Protectors of the forest

Saara adivasis in Orissa have undertaken measures to conserve forest wealth

Touch that heals trees

Industries eye forest land for plantations

Wood-based firms want to convert forest areas to their own use for raw material. In doing so, they ignore the fate of millions of rural poor, who …

Orissa villagers protect forest, reap benefits

Hellfires in the hills

Pauri Garwhal became ghost territory as villagers and the forest department virtually ignored unprecedented forest fires

Forests for people

Newly democratic Bhutan pushes community forestry to tackle rural poverty  

The woods are lovely

The conservation of forests and Natural Ecosystems Bill, sponsored by the ministry of environment and forests, seeks to weed out an obsolete …

Nepal's poor carry it off

As the Himalayan country's forestry scheme for the poor reaps rich dividends, its government entrusts more degraded areas to the underprivileged. …

Tree is not timber

Changing colours

After blindly destroying much of their forest cover, people in Anantapur district attempt to reclaim their barren lands