Deaf to nuclear plant protests

Government tries to begin work on the 1,400 MW plant in Madhya Pradesh

Losers again

Finally, community forest rights

Tribals of BR Hills can now manage resources in Karnataka reserve

Forest department’s cheat act

Omits crucial community rights from claim papers of Gadchiroli villages  

POSCO gets final clearance

Environment ministry sides with Odisha government, ignores people’s forest rights

Tigers in, people out

18 tribal villages in Maharashtra get tendu rights, finally

Sulking contractors refuse to put in auction bids; state tribal development corporation to the rescue

A tale of two interpretations

Aparna Pallavi recounts struggles of residents of a tiny village in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra to get ownership of forest resources

Age of dissent

Six villages in Madhya Pradesh reject Centre’s proposal to declare their forest a wildlife sanctuary

State inaction

The traditional forest dweller has had very few entitlements down centuries. Guardian of the forest, he has been regarded as encroacher by the …

Misguided rules

Environment ministry framed guidelines which violate Forest Rights Act

Return of village land

Supreme Court asks states to evict illegal occupants of village commons

Hiware Bazar - A village with 54 millionaires

Hiware Bazar, a village in Maharashtra's drought-prone Ahmednagar district, was sliding into an abyss after degrading its environment. But in …

Battle for Niyamgiri turns ugly

Odisha government tries to manipulate forest rights claims of Niyamgiri tribals

The MoEF-NHAI roadblock

Two Central government arms fight over de-linking of forest, environment clearances

Spring of discontent

Mining in Odisha’s Khandadhar hills will dry out perennial water bodies

Land acquisition for Posco begins

How COVID-19 made forest rights battle tougher for Tharu women

The Adivasi women of Lakhimpur Khiri in eastern UP show resilience

Green clearance test for NDA

Cheated for bauxite

Andhra Pradesh circumvents all regulations to mine bauxite from tribal land

Gram sabha gets a boost

Supreme Court asks gram sabhas to see if Vedanta’s bauxite mine harms religious rights

Don’t say bamboo

Aparna Pallavi travels to Gadchiroli district to find out why villages relinquished forest rights

Bamboo under siege

Gadchiroli villages relinquish forest rights to Ballarpur paper mill

A new roadblock

Tribal affairs ministry objects to Maharashtra's Village Forest Rules that violate FRA. Other ministeries pressure it to backtrack

Saharias face exile, again

Displaced from Kuno wildlife sanctuary earlier, the tribe is being evicted again for a dam