Protectors of the forest

Saara adivasis in Orissa have undertaken measures to conserve forest wealth

Community Participation and Sustainable Forest Development Global Perspective

Illusive relief

For Nepal's forest users

Cutting losses?

Compensatory afforestation in trouble

Timber soldiers

Remote control

Lack of political will, forest department opposition driving poor implementation of FRA, claims study

Forest Rights Act can help secure rights and ensure livelihoods to at least 200 million people including tribals, say independent researchers

Missing: One-third of India’s recorded forests

25.87 million hectares: That is the size of forest missing from the latest assessment of India’s green cover. Does this land exist? Is it …

Deforestation rate globally declined between 2015 and 2020: FAO report

While the world lost 178 million hectares of forest in the last 30 years, the rate of net forest loss declined

Forest Rights Act: A litmus test for govt to protect forest dwellers

It is now the turn of the BJP-led central government, which won 38 out of 48 reserved seats for Scheduled Tribes across the country, to stand by …

Wanted: Better governance models for India’s forests

While the Forest Rights Act empowered Gram Sabhas to manage and conserve forests, the Joint Forest Management mechanism could not succeed due to …

Scientific management of mangroves is need of the hour

40 per cent of mangrove forests in West Coast of India have been converted into farmlands and housing colonies over the last three decades

‘The IFA amendment is a zero draft; all stakeholders will be involved later’

Director General of Forests, Siddhanta Das tells DTE that the proposed amendment in the Indian Forest Act is a mostly techno-legal exercise and …

Odisha planning to scrap minimum support price for minor forest produce

Lack of profitability is one of the reasons cited for the proposal to do away with the scheme

Habitat rights of Odisha’s tribal group denied; their livelihood also at stake

The bone of contention is the core area of the Similipal Tiger Reserve where the Mankidia tribe eke out a living by collecting Siali fibre

Bamboo will soon be declassified as a tree to encourage use and supply

Currently, bamboo is considered a tree under the Indian Forest Act and a non-timber forest produce under the Forest Rights Act 

Clean drive in Himachal

Proposed amendments to this pristine state's Forest Act-make a fresh draft blow envisaged over ecological developments

Simply Put: Forest Act revision

Elusive forest contracts

Lost in the deep woods

Home is in the Amazon

Timeline of an unwarranted act: How India has legislated on forests

Does independent India's first amendment to the Indian Forest Act reflect the changes in forest policy?

Vanishing woodstocks

British green campaigners direct their wrath on Scandinavian timber suppliers who are ravaging the last of the region's verdant tracts

Wealth of forests withheld

Forest departments across the country owe millions of rupees to communities. For 20 years communities toiled under the Joint Forest Management …

‘State has tendu trade right’

Expert panel report denies forest dwellers this lucrative right