The inviolate plot

New parameters for identifying pristine forests may make them more vulnerable

How will climate change affect carbon sequestered in tropical forests?

New study emphasises not just species diversity but also geodiversity

National body to formulate standards for forest certification

Forest departments, however, may be reluctant to subject government forests to scrutiny

When planting trees is a curse

King without a jungle

The sandalwood forests are gone. Now an ageing Veerappan looks for greener pastures

HP snubbed

For denotifying forestland

Complete muff-up

MoEF falls far short of tenth Five Year Plan targets

Is JFM relevant?

Two Acts give people rights. JFM only promised partnership

Simply Put: Invasive species

Conquest of lantana

A decade-long initiative in Madhya Pradesh to reclaim land overrun by lantana helps residents restart agriculture and restore native biodiversity&…

Simply Put: Caveman or forest staff

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

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

Parliamentary Digest (August 1, 2022): India marks reduction in groundwater extraction

All that was discussed in the House through the day

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

Paper forests: India’s missing stretches of green

The most bad news is what the biennial forest survey report leaves unsaid

Biennial Forest Survey Report: What does State of India’s Forest 2021 tell us

Forest officer suspended in Odisha’s Sambalpur over death of 6 elephants

The elephants died by poaching, train accidents and electrocution

Community leadership reduces deforestation, poverty: Nepal study

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

Biodiversity hotspot in the Amazon awaiting official recognition for 20 years

Peru government silent on awarding protected status

Under stress

Biodiversity at risk in protected forest areas

Amazon, a click away

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Economic potential of carbon-rich mangroves untapped: report

Policy interventions and carbon finance mechanisms needed to restore conservation