Gujarat is misusing forest laws under garb of ‘sustainable’ development

Forest lands, over which rights of adivasis have been recognised or are pending recognition, have been usurped for carrying out plantations under …

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 …

No consensus

The UN Forum on Forest's fourth meet ended half a day ahead of schedule, raising doubts on the convention's ability to frame an agenda. Clifford …

Forestry, the Mexican way

Making money through herbs in Himachal

Medicinal plants can improve the fortunes of state's rural poor

Forest depts as nodal agency for community forest resources: A political blunder

The Chhattisgarh government issued an order on May 31, making the state forest department the nodal agency for Community Forest Resource Rights 

How FRA helped India’s forest communities during COVID-19

Stories of hope have been reported from across the tribal areas of how communities survived due to FRA even as attempts have been made to dilute it

Kerala’s Kadars continue fight for assertion of their community forest rights

Their Gram Sabhas have passed resolutions under the Forest Rights Act as work has progressed on the Anakkayam Small Hydro Power Project

Top of the world

It's a voyage of discovery as biologists travel to the unexplored stretches of the rainforest canopy, learning more about this "green ocean"

Odisha recorded the most forest fires in India last season

A total of 345,989 forest fires were recorded across the country. 

Next hearing in FRA case on September 12

Apex court asks all states to file affidavits within 15 days

Compensatory afforestation: FAC considers forest with tree cover up to 40% degraded

All mining areas to be inspected by green ministry, irrespective of size

Centre again revisits minimum support prices of key minor forest produce  

Latest guidelines have fixed MSPs that favour traders rather than the forest gatherers

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Digging graves

Hills on fire

Fires ravage forests in many parts of northern India

Brazil

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Double whammy

Two proposed moves that could drastically alter forest management in India

UNITED NATIONS

Disparate narratives

Environmental history writing is beginning to look beyond colonial forestry

Ethnographical account by a forest officer

‘Protocol not followed’: Complaint lodged in Karnataka forest department sharpshooter death case

Venkatesh, tasked with tranquilising an injured wild elephant in Hassan, was trampled to death by it in what his son has blamed as negligence by …

Over a third of forest land in Burhanpur lost to encroachers: Officials

On March 11, about 250 forest officials were attacked by the encroachers while launching a drive to remove encroachments here

Extreme wildfires are turning the world’s largest forest ecosystem from carbon sink into net-emitter

A boreal forest fire can release 10 to 20 times more carbon compared to a similarly sized fire in other ecosystems