No transparency - Andhra Pradesh

Chhattisgarh revokes: Forest dept no longer nodal agency for community rights

Chhattisgarh government reinstates the role of the forest department to coordinate claims that are to be filed by communities, …

Maharashtra villages agitate for share from forest produce

Stall auction of produce from the forests they protect under joint forest management programme; forest department owes them Rs 85 lakh

Another Maharashtra village demands community forest rights

Tribal village Pachgaon to follow Mendha Lekha; to hold bamboo sale as protest to gain community forest rights

India among top 10 countries gaining forest area in the world: FAO

Half of people employed in forestry in the world are in India  

Give us 18 sq km

Is Maharashtra tendu trade rule amendment a trap for gram sabhas?

Forest department's move may be a ploy to retain control over trade in forest produce, say activists

Forest paradox

To give forest dwellers their due rights, forest governance must go beyond the environment and include the communities at stake

Maharashtra villages granted community forest rights to print own bamboo permits

Flawed forestland titles to be re-examined, says top forest official

Forest department’s cheat act

Omits crucial community rights from claim papers of Gadchiroli villages  

Maharashtra forest department gets flak for its August 15 diktat

Department has asked gram sabhas to pass resolution on Independence Day, accepting forest village status, which will mean relinquishing rights …

Maharashtra forest department gets flak for its August 15 diktat

Department has asked gram sabhas to pass resolution on Independence Day, accepting forest village status, which will mean relinquishing rights …

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

‘Forest department is the encroacher’

When V Kishore Chandra Deo became the Union Minister for Panchayati Raj and Tribal Affairs three months ago, both the ministries were in inertia.…

Concern over the government’s moves to dilute the requirement for Gram Sabha consent in violation of the Forest Right’s Act (FRA)

No mining by PSUs for trade in Scheduled Areas: tribal affairs minister

'Forest department is worst enemy of Forest Rights Act'

Don’t take away Gram Sabha’s powers under FRA: activists petition Modi

‘Central government's attempts to do away with consent of Gram Sabhas for diverting forests unconstitutional’

Ministers mount pressure to dilute Forest Rights Act

Tribal affairs minister asked to withdraw objections to Maharashtra’s Village Forest Rules that allow forest department take control over …

Baigas cheated of community forest rights

Madhya Pradesh village given rights over agricultural and residential land instead of forestland

Wealth of forests withheld

Forest departments across the country owe millions of rupees to communities. For 20 years communities toiled under the Joint Forest Management …

Tricks of diminishing returns

Clever calculations and the great wall of bureaucracy

Is JFM relevant?

Two Acts give people rights. JFM only promised partnership

'Grant of community forest rights to JFMCs in Andhra illegal'

Tribal affairs ministry says state has violated Forest Rights Act by giving titles to joint forest management committees

Bamboo rights: Maharashtra gives priority to paper mill over Forest Rights Act

Chief Minister Prithvi Raj Chavan says agreement with Ballarpur Industries predates the Act

Forest rights act under scrutiny

Environment ministry does not seem open to criticism