Unkindest cuts

An amendment to the Orissa forest act gives sweeping powers to forest officials

Crying foul

Orissa's JFM groups resent move to set up forest bodies

Looming largesse

World Bank mulls India's first loan for tribal populations; to bypass forest department

The Eklingapura experience

A joint forest management initiative succeeded at Eklingapura mainly because foresters were able to respond to the needs of the community.

Bandwagon role for joint forestry

Though programmes involving villagers in the regeneration of forest lands have been successful, caution should be exercised while bringing new …

Afforestation project suspended as anti-poor

A scheme under which 75,000 families were to each get and maintain two ha of forest land has been put on hold following fears that it would …

The lone crusader

From social worker, to government contractor, to politician, and then to the highest political station of the state. It has been an interesting …

Whose forest is it, anyway?

JFM in jeopardy

A proposal to regularise encroachments in forests creates a flutter

Double whammy

Two proposed moves that could drastically alter forest management in India

High-yield variety

Bamboo is key to rural growth

A forest of controls

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Hand in hand

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Shrinking cover

Forests are disappearing at an alarming rate the world-over, says a recent study

Wanted: Better governance models for India’s forests

While the Forest Rights Act empowered Gram Sabhas to manage and conserve forests, the Joint Forest Management mechanism could not succeed due to …

‘The IFA amendment is a zero draft; all stakeholders will be involved later’

Director General of Forests, Siddhanta Das tells DTE that the proposed amendment in the Indian Forest Act is a mostly techno-legal exercise and …

CYBERBABU OF HYDERABAD

Chandrababu Naidu ia known more for his obsession with technology and computers. Little is known about his watershed mission

Sacred flaws

Why the Odisha government's move to save sacred groves has enraged tribal communities

The people are covered

People's rights over forests are legally unassailable

Contentious credit

World Bank giving loan for anti-tribal forest project, say Andhra activists

At UNCCD CoP, Babul Supriyo talks JFM but remains mum on FRA

This, despite the fact that the Joint Forest Management model has become obsolete with the coming of the Forest Rights Act

THE KING OF SMALL THINGS

A civil engineer and a farmer, he knows the importance of the relationship between land and water. Small dams are his forte.

More land, less timber

Ban on harvesting of timber may not solve the problem of deforestation in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province

'Community rights must figure in the Forest Bill'

The raging controversy over the regressive draft Forest Bill has dumped the onus of defending it on minister of state for environment and forests …

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