Six villages in Odisha can now sell tendu leaves

These villages were earlier denied their right to sell this minor forest produce to any other buyer apart from the state's forest department

Here's how we can fill gaps in forestry data

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has released guidelines to monitor forest resources

MoEFCC deals death blow to Madhya Pradesh’s tourism promotion plan

Sources said the underlying objective behind the proposal was to “rejuvenate” degraded forest areas in order to take off …

Changing colours

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

‘Lianas threaten Earth’s carbon sinks’

Field ecologist Alain Ngute explains how lianas have lower carbon sequestering capacity than trees & when they compete for sunlight in the …

Paper forests: India’s missing stretches of green

The most bad news is what the biennial forest survey report leaves unsaid

Biennial Forest Survey Report: What does State of India’s Forest 2021 tell us

MEF and the law of the jungle

Forest fiasco

Laos' forests may go for a six following the implementation of two forest-aid packages

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Going up?

The new forest report claims that forest cover in India has increased

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Voters' tactic

Orissa's forest groups want candidates to be answerable

Old forests are critically important for slowing climate change and merit immediate protection from logging

A majority of national forest area that is mature and old growth is not protected from logging

Climate tipping points could lock in unstoppable changes to the planet — how close are they?

Small patches of the Amazon and northern forests might tip and transition to a savannah-like state first, bypassing a more catastrophic …

New boundaries: How village limits are demarcated for community forest rights

Forest Rights Act recognises community forest resource rights over an area that is traditionally used by the local communities. This is …

Potential of intact forests in mitigating climate risks undermined: Report

While deforestation alone accounted for 3.2% of gross carbon emissions, selective logging, edge effects, and wildlife loss spiked carbon …

African grasslands are meant to burn – we can't let this distract from the Amazon fires

The world should be more bothered about the Amazon than about the fires in Africa's savnnahs

Tribal communities suffer when evicted in the name of conservation

The tribal communities are paying a brutal price for governments' agenda to boost safari, create protected areas and attract tourism

In 10 states, compensatory afforestation violating forest rights and conservation laws

All the 52 compensatory afforestation plantations in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Odisha were taken up on community forest lands

Technique developed in Kenya offers a refined way to map tree cover

A new approach to monitor changes to the earth's surface uses maps that consist of physical and human geographic data to explain what's changed

Karnataka forest encroachments outpace reclamation efforts

The state witnesses the third highest encroachment of forests in India after Madhya Pradesh and Assam

Plant 10-15 trees to create oxygen banks: Javadekar

The minister was addressing students on the occasion of International Day of Forests

EcoCheck: Australia's Southwest jarrah forests have lost their iconic giants

When Europeans first arrived in Australia's Southwest, they found vast tracts of huge jarrah trees. Now, after logging and dwindling rainfall, …