Simply Put: ‘Crypto’ forests

Forst bill farce

Indian NGOs jointly campaign against an anti-people forest bill proposed by the Centre

Himalayan oak forests under threat

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

Chhattisgarh revokes: Forest dept no longer nodal agency for community rights

Chhattisgarh government reinstates the role of the forest department to coordinate claims that are to be filed by communities, …

Missing the woods: The story of India’s vanishing forests in 20 cards

Some 25.87 million hectares of forest is missing from the latest assessment of India’s green cover. Here are some cards that tell the story

The sad plight of India's forestry graduates

Forest graduates are being sidelined in favour of science graduates in the State Forest Service

Empower communities to restore forests: Study

Crucial forest-restoration areas in low-income countries — home to 12 per cent of their total population — can have an impact on …

Of tribes and trees

CONTESTED DOMAINS Akhileshwar Pathak Sage Publications

Planting trouble

Forest Survey Report 2021: Forest fire counts up 2.7 times

Forest fires in Uttarakhand in November 2020-June 2021 were 28.3 times more compared to November 2019-June 2020  

Fire continues to rage in Uttarakhand forests; locals complain of govt inaction

Forest officials admit that they are facing resource crunch when it comes to tackling forest fires

Route by root

Built by the Khasi and Jaintia tribes, Meghalaya's living root bridges are a testimony to their intimate relationship with nature

Villagers unaware of forest rights find it ‘too good to be true’

Odisha village applies for forest rights title 15 years later; many villages still unaware, says NGO  

COVID-19 has aggravated challenges to manage forests: UN Report

New UN report calls for greater sustainability and a greener, more inclusive economy to tackle the threats of COVID-19, climate change and …

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

Building institutional foundations for community forest management

Forest commons can play a critical role in facilitating the resilience of India’s response to climate change

Branches into batons

The Forest Bill can be used to preserve our verdant national wealth

India’s first forest-certification scheme gets global recognition

A Geneva-based non-profit recently decided to endorse the Certification Standard for Sustainable Forest Management designed for Indian forests

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India among top 10 countries gaining forest area in the world: FAO

Half of people employed in forestry in the world are in India  

'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 …

Long overdue change made in new draft of Forest Policy

The new draft National Forest Policy takes into account the paradigm shift in present realities due to climate change

Forest Survey Report 2021: 11 states have lost forest cover; 21 have lost good forests

India’s forest cover has increased by just 1,540 sq km in two years, mostly due to plantation and agroforestry

CAG slams 2 Chhattisgarh DFOs for spending without permission

Report says forest department violated Forest Conservation Act norms

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 …