Forest scraps

Battles over forest rights are nothing new. Neither are flawed policies and distrust

Reality check

Petty squabbles signify ill for the forest rights question

Kerala draft forest policy lacks focus

Access to justice curbed

Red tape binds law

Maharashtra villagers don’t even get forms to file forest claims  

Forestry, the Mexican way

Making money through herbs in Himachal

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

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

DISLODGED

Digging graves

Hills on fire

Fires ravage forests in many parts of northern India

Brazil

ZAMBIA

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

A protest to demand rights over forests

The bare essentials

To make community forest management a success

300,000 forestland claims unverified

1,300 villages, common agenda

Gram sabhas resolve to get rights over community-owned land and resources registered