Extinguished!

Conventional politics breaks up the fiery spirit of an ideal self-sustaining forest community

Missing the woods for the trees

Moneyspinning forests

PEOPLE'S FOREST

Nobody's forest

There is no organised people's movement to arrest forest depletion in northeast India

Endangered groves

Shrinking cover

Gorillas in the midst

In east Africa the latest war casualties are gorillas

Delhi ridge in trouble

Cheap trees

Science shatters myth

Products of pollution

E-governance MoEF style

Off the logs

CEC ISN'T NET SAVVY

Global Forest Resource Assessment: Tropical forests the size of Europe lost in first 20 years of this century

Deforestation slowed by 30% in 2010-18; cropland, oil palm plantation and grazing biggest drivers of deforestation

The earth likely holds more than 9,000 undiscovered tree species; and they are in danger

Undiscovered tree species are more likely to be present in in tropical and subtropical dry forests, which are threatened by development projects

Menagerie of new species

An inaccessible forest region on the Laos-Vietnam border may be home to animals and birds not found anywhere else in the world

Catch a tiger by its pug

Accurate tiger census methodology assumes significance in the context of the recent controversy over the declining number of tigers in the Indian …

Arunachal's green could soon turn brown

Acquiring prime forest land near town and highway and then selling it at an exorbitant price has become routine in the state

But who manages the managers?

MANAGING THE WORLD'S FORESTS: LOOKING FOR BALANCE BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT Edited by Narendra P Sharma Publisher: Kendall/Hunt …

Of barren hills and barrel smoke

Militancy has destroyed much more than peace in Kashmir. Kalashnikov-trotting extremists are ravaging the last green frontiers of the 'heaven on …

Cycle of change

A new development programme in Palamau in Bihar, a rich land with poor people, can set the pace for a reversal of fortune

Dang and blast

The anachronistic, and explosive, colonial formula of exploiting forests by denying the forest people their rights is still being followed to the …

Writing off the world's forests

As the global demand for paper rockets, forests in the Asia-Pacific are being targeted for paper plantations