Parliamentary panel recommends MSP for timber

Committee acted on idea by TERI to encourage aforestation 

Gadchiroli villages to move SC against Maharashtra forest body

Villagers are challenging the Forest Development Corporation of Maharashtra Ltd’s 2016 decision under which, it felled 385 hectares of old-…

Forest dwellers in Himachal’s Kangra district soon to get rights under FRA

The district’s forest dwellers have filed 81 individual and 43 community rights claims so far

India’s first forest-certification scheme gets global recognition

A Geneva-based non-profit recently decided to endorse the Certification Standard for Sustainable Forest Management designed for Indian forests

Pan-India Transit Permit for bamboo soon

The environment ministry is planning to introduce a pan-India bamboo permit, which will eliminate the need for multiple permits 

Forest Rights Act: Who is the encroacher and who is encroached upon

Thirteen years after a historic law was formulated to give forest dwellers legal ownership of their traditional land, their fate still hangs in …

Gujarat's Narmada district takes a step forward in forest governance

Five years after 20 villages in the district got their Community Forest Rights titles, their Gram Sabhas have developed a draft of their …

Final National Forest Policy to be out soon

Most comments in the draft policy concern with the dilution of the Forest Rights Act and opening up forest land for private players 

वनवासियों पर बेदखली की तलवार, जिम्मेवार कौन

ऐतिहासिक वनाधिकार अधिनियम के बावजूद वनवासियों पर मंडरा रहा है जंगल से बेदखल किए जाने का खतरा

Odisha planning to scrap minimum support price for minor forest produce

Lack of profitability is one of the reasons cited for the proposal to do away with the scheme

Denied forest rights, Himachal Pradesh villagers take to awareness campaigns

About 2,614 individual and 54 community claims made under the FRA in 2009-10 were rejected by the District Forest Officer in 2015

आदिवासियों के लिए खतरनाक साबित होगा यह संशोधन!

खास रिपोर्ट: कोरोना महामारी के बीच महाराष्ट्र में वन अधिकार कानून में संशोधन किया गया है, आइए जानते हैं कि इसका वनवासियों पर क्या असर पड़ने ...

प्रकृति के असल रक्षक हैं वनवासी : वैश्विक रिपोर्ट

अंतर सरकारी विज्ञान नीति मंच (आईपीबीईएस) ने अपनी वैश्विक रिपोर्ट में कहा है कि देशज और स्थानीय समुदाय के ज्ञान को अब तक वैश्विक ...

CAG slams 2 Chhattisgarh DFOs for spending without permission

Report says forest department violated Forest Conservation Act norms

Indian Forest Act amendment: Govt ready with first draft

The draft, which has been prepared with focus on conservation and climate change, has been sent to states seeking comments

COVID-19: Minor forest produce scheme can come to tribals’ rescue, say experts

The scheme provides fair price for minor forest produce through minimum support price  

जहां वनभूमि का ज्यादा हुआ डायवर्जन वहां घटी बाघों की आबादी

झारखंड, ओडिशा, छत्तीसगढ़ और आंध्र प्रदेश  (तेलंगाना) में बाघों की आबादी में बड़ी गिरावट है। इन चारों राज्यों में ही 2015 से 2018 के ...

Government files petition seeking stay of SC order on FRA; hearing tomorrow

On February 13, SC had asked state authorities to submit affidavits explaining why evictions, wherever ordered, have not taken place

Budget 2020-21: Govt likely to set up a national ‘plantation corporation’

Experts express concern; say move against Constitution’s federal structure

Duty on minor produce will violate forest rights: Experts

The first draft to amend Indian Forest Act proposes to impose duty on minor produce that several tribals depend on for livelihood

Long overdue change made in new draft of Forest Policy

The new draft National Forest Policy takes into account the paradigm shift in present realities due to climate change

Ahead of SC hearing on FRA, MoEF asks states to share “encroachment” data

Forest Survey of India requests for geo-referenced locations of encroachments, but many states ill-equipped to do so

Nine new items added to MSP for minor forest produce scheme

Despite additions, quality parameters unavailable to state agencies

Forest Rights Act: Are state govts the real land mafias?

State governments want to divert forest land for industrial expansion. That's why they reject claims of forest dwellers

Interim Budget 2019: Board for marginal communities, but where’s the welfare?

Government announces setting up of a welfare development board for de-notified, nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes