Let's be very clear

Land rights won't benefit tribals, inviolate areas can't secure tigers

Seize the moment

Create long-term plans to ensure tribal livelihoods

Can we use our forests well?

Tribal ministry panels draft fresh guidelines for community forest, habitat rights

Gram Sabhas may get more power in managing community forest, habitat

Elephantine block

A wall to keep elephants at bay ends up alienating people in an Uttarakhand village

Revamp forest policy

Reaping the benefits

CFM brings social and economic prosperity to several village communities

Heading Downhill

Thailand policymakers' volte-face on community forestry bill jolts devolution process

Bamboo under siege

Gadchiroli villages relinquish forest rights to Ballarpur paper mill

After Jairam Ramesh, now activists criticise green fund rules

They raise questions on the implementation of the rules and demand their withdrawal

When planting trees is a curse

Staying legal, staying reasonable

A law can be effective only if it's reasonable

HP snubbed

For denotifying forestland

A family in Nagaland is on a mission to conserve the state flower, rhododendron

Kelühol Tase and his brothers opened a rhododendron park last year to conserve the flower impacted by wild forest fires and continuous human …

European Parliament votes down amended version of nature restoration law

The European Parliament will once again consider it on July 11

DTE Reportage: What will the rejection of Individual Forest Rights claims mean?

Down To Earth reports from the ground and places things in perspective

How the struggle for forest rights united a nagar panchayat & divided another in Chhattisgarh

Tumbahra & Churiyara became one of the 1st nagar panchayats to receive CFRR titles

Half of global cropland expansion replaced natural vegetation and tree cover: Study

The largest cropland expansion was observed in Africa which was 34 per cent

Statistic of the decade: The massive deforestation of the Amazon

8.4 million soccer fields of land deforested in the Amazon over the past decade

Community leadership reduces deforestation, poverty: Nepal study

Deforestation was down 37 per cent, poverty fell 4.3 per cent between 2000 and 2012

Parliamentary panel recommends MSP for timber

Committee acted on idea by TERI to encourage aforestation 

Why reducing emissions from deforestation, forest degradation remains a challenge

Fund constraints and lack of clarity on implementation derails the progress of REDD+

Vanishing from the wild

The impact of climate change on wild food has not received the attention it deserves

Plenty of Permits

Allocation for environment, forest and climate change ministry up by 33%

But key forest initiatives get paltry allocations, one as low as Rs 1 lakh