INDIA

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First step to control: legalisation

Nepal's Forest fight

Get deep into Forests

Getting the chop

The Urban Dwellers (Rights to Forest Lands and Resources) Bill 2005

Saviour messenger

Mango tree insurance

Orchards shelter Dharhara’s daughters from discrimination

Letters

The deadly sting

Experts follow the world's longest venomous snake, with a bite potent enough to kill an elephant, through the rain forests of peninsular India.

Behind the frontier

CONTESTED FRONTIERS IN AMAZONIA Marianne Schmink and Charles H Wood Publisher: Columbia University Press Price: $35

A Cash-hungry Russia eyes its Siberian coniferous forests

The Siberian forests are facing the axe from a Russia eager to top the financial potencial of its timber.

A bunch of saps

Will a recent conference help to compensate the victims of jackboot and power-blinded national afforestation policies?

Brazil's sorrow

From homeland to terra incognita, the indigenous lands of Brazil have today fallen prey to a draconian decree

Born again

The dense Melaghar forests in Tripura that were destroyed during the Bangladesh war have been revived through the efforts of the Acharya Jagdish …

Green tribunal spells its mandate

Forest bureaucracy contended that clearance by the Centre can’t be challenged

Afforestation push

Court allows widening of 17 km of road

India’s forest cover goes up by nearly 3% this decade; but all is not well

'Very dense forests', which absorb maximum carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, increased by a mere 1.14 % between 2017 and 2019, according …

False predictions

For years, energy experts and foresters have believed that the poor will eat away the forests of the developing world like locusts in order to …

Combating forest fires in focus on Day 1 of UN forum; India shares revised National Forest Policy

About 100 million hectares of forest or 3% of world’s total forest area affected by fires each year

Products of pollution

From the blurbs

Cutting log exports