Inadequate compensation of villagers for ecosystem services weakens conservation efforts

Situation of villagers in Palampur village, Himachal Pradesh is a good case study 

Over 57k hectares of forest land diverted in Odisha, says new report

Most of the forest land (28,409 hectares) was diverted for 186 mining projects

Forest fires in India tripled in the last four months

Five southern states account more than a third of fires in 2019

Ridge riddle

Shrinking cover

Forests are disappearing at an alarming rate the world-over, says a recent study

Talking green

Participants at an international conference on forest management discuss ways to curb logging

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

Simply Put: Forest Act revision

Elusive forest contracts

Lost in the deep woods

Home is in the Amazon

‘State has tendu trade right’

Expert panel report denies forest dwellers this lucrative right

Give us 18 sq km

Touch that heals trees

Like neighbours

Maharashtra muddies bamboo rights

Activists say forest department trying to dilute Forest Rights Act

Polavaram — displaced and nowhere to go: Tribal families robbed of rights, livelihood in resettlement colonies

The families depended on forest produce but have been moved far away from forest land

The people are covered

People's rights over forests are legally unassailable

Future of our forests

Experts discuss ways to improve forest policies in India

JPC's good work on Tribal Bill

JPC suggestions go beyond forest rights paradigm