Simply Put: Forest Act revision

Simply Put: India’s forest guard

Buxwaha: Has India’s government not learnt lessons from COVID-19?

What development can be achieved by wrecking an ecosystem on which the poorest depend?

Karnataka’s trekking trails in eco-sensitive Western Ghats off limits till October

Trekking to be limited to 300 people a day once it resumes, only in areas with online bookings

How an Odisha community revived a mangrove forest to protect their village from cyclones

Over the past 12 years, the residents of Badakot have converted degraded land into a 25-acre mangrove forest that protects their village from …

India’s forest-dependent communities will benefit from policies recognising their integrated agri-forestry livelihood

Targeted interventions aimed at building resilience to natural and climate-related challenges may be necessary

Tropical forests the size of Europe lost in first 20 years of this century

South America lost around 68 million hectares — the highest in the world, followed by Africa with 49 million hectares, according to a new …

Agenda: Forests for real

We need fifth-generation forest reforms that will secure forests for growth and livelihood

In Karur, a conservation dilemma regarding the slender loris

Should the Tamil Nadu government declare the Kadavur Reserve Forest a sanctuary for the slender loris or should it implement a proposed species …

Kendu leaves: 29 Odisha villages win complete autonomy, but still a long way to go

Most villagers earned more than Rs 15,000 this year, over seven times their past earnings

Satellite data alerts help stop Africa forest cover loss: Study

Tree felling dropped by an average of 18 per cent in Africa relative to the average 2011–2016 levels

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (October 27-30, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Protection be damned

Protected areas across the world seem dotted with dams and more are to come up, going by this map from a recent study

Can forest clearance grantees have their names added in record of rights, MoEF&CC asks states

The environment ministry on February 22 wrote to all states, seeking their views on the matter, according to documents

Inside ad hoc forests

Government failure, both at the Centre and the states, is hurting communities and forests alike

Empower communities to restore forests: Study

Crucial forest-restoration areas in low-income countries — home to 12 per cent of their total population — can have an impact on …

Update land records to include FRA titles allotted, MoEF&CC directs states

Activists welcome ministry’s move citing conflict between tribals and officials when land records do not record FRA titles

Disengaging with WII should be given rethink, MoEF&CC tells PMO: RTI

In a letter to the PMO, ministry agrees ‘in principle’ to disengage with IIFM

Walk in the Nilgiris

The various chapters of The Nilgiri Hills, edited by anthropologist Paul Hockings, do not just discuss the culture and biodiversity of the …

Fighting every wildfire ensures the big fires are more extreme, and may harm forests’ ability to adapt to climate change

Fires are a natural part of many landscapes globally; when forests aren’t allowed to burn, they become more dense

These 11 invasive alien species have wrought havoc on India’s natural systems

A look at which species these are and what damage they can cause

Can agroforestry help achieve sustainable developmental goals?

The net carbon sequestered in agroforestry is 11.35 tonnes of carbon per ha

Investing in degraded forest land for the health of our economic system

Forest health is also intricately connected with human health outcome

Simply Put: ‘I’ for indigenous, ‘E’ for Extinct

Karnataka forest department has filed just 130 chargesheets on forest encroachment since 1980: RTI

The RTI inquiry reveals that 204,229 acres were lost to encroachment while another 104,065 acres of land were illegally granted by the state …