Green tribunal spells its mandate

Forest bureaucracy contended that clearance by the Centre can’t be challenged

Centre ignores certifying agency

Private players set up forest certification body even as the ministry, which manages 90 per cent of the forests, gives it a cold shoulder

Dhamra port on mangrove land

Odisha government insists port is on wasteland

Industry shadow on forest panel

Controversy over non-official members; one appointee to advisory committee quits

Reserved for exploitation?

Karnataka repeatedly refuses to declare its forests in Western Ghats inviolate

Up for scrutiny

Environment ministry sets up certification scheme for its forests

Forest value to be revised

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

Misguided rules

Environment ministry framed guidelines which violate Forest Rights Act

India’s green cover has increased, but outside demarcated forests

Latest state of forests report shows increase of green cover by 5,871 sq km; most of the increase is owing to plantations

Missing timber for wood

As the demand-supply gap for timber widens in India, it is time to exploit the potential of private plantations and government-managed forests in …

Jungle raj

CAG memo shows IFS officers are administering country’s premier forestry research body like a fiefdom

National body to formulate standards for forest certification

Forest departments, however, may be reluctant to subject government forests to scrutiny

Commercial harvest of degraded forests on cards?

Environment minister Prakash Javadekar's statement that government is considering plan to harvest open forests goes against the policy of …

Green tribunal gets short shrift

Most successful court on environmental matters lacks amenities, infrastructure

High Court’s blow to Lavasa

No consensus on FRA review

Top forest officials and National Forest Rights Act Committee engage in a war of words

Jairam Ramesh withdraws guidelines violating FRA

Fresh guidelines for creating Critical wildlife Habitat to be prepared in consultation with Tribal Affairs ministry

Orissa wants stay on Polavaram

State says environment ministry’s approval overreaches apex court

Forests brushed aside

CoP-11 fails to finalise guidelines to safeguard forest biodiversity

Afforestation wages in cash

Chhattisgarh violates Supreme Court order

Supreme Court gives Centre time till September 27 to review tiger tourism guidelines

Till then ban on tourism in core tiger habitats will prevail

India readies to implement UN’s REDD+ programme

MoEF’s draft policy aims to create the framework for transferring financial benefits from REDD+ to local communities involved in protecting …

Fall of the paragon

Century-old teak plantation business loses ground in India because of poor management and short-sighted policies

Forest rights act under scrutiny

Environment ministry does not seem open to criticism

Halfway through

Tribal affairs ministy attempts to give forest dwellers their due welfare benefits, through a compromise