Simply Put: Forest dwellers in India

How India lost its finest Banni grasslands to an exotic species called Prosopis Juliflora

Plants can recover after being burned, so why might some species in the Amazon face local wipe out?

Simply put: Sisters in arms

In Parliament on July 18, 2016

Here’s a round-up of debates and reports on what happened in the Assembly

Up for scrutiny

Environment ministry sets up certification scheme for its forests

Foresters, villagers vie for land in Bengal

Himalaya’s magical grove

Apart from being a religious place, Hariyali Devi’s forests harbour several herbs

Money makers

A lesson in bad environmental management

Biodiversity Asia

Bill of wrongs

In overhauling the wildlife act, MEF could ride roughshod over people's rights

Data-wise

A database is imperative, yet is nowhere in sight

Our forests are burning

People's relationship to the forest

Sylvan overhaul

Constitution and agenda declared for forestry panel

The iron ore rush

Companies can't wait to mine Orissa's rich deposits; government goes with the flow

It's just the basic

But NEP has little to empower communities in resource use

Naxal attack Orissa foresters want VRS

Clearing forests for coal

Update

Did everybody get it wrong?

Indonesia gets angry

Mumbai dilutes noise rules

Fewer silence zones; Shivaji Park the bone of contention

News 360° - Briefs

Forest value to be revised

50 per cent of net present value of forests should go to communities, says report