Mautak will flower

In 2006-2007, a bamboo species will flower over vast swathes of Mizoram, Tripura and Assam. When bamboo flowers, it dies; usually a famine follows.…

Lost in interpretation - Maharashtra

Bamboo sale for bamboo rights

A Maharashtra village demands rights to transport and sell forest produce

How FRA helped India’s forest communities during COVID-19

Stories of hope have been reported from across the tribal areas of how communities survived due to FRA even as attempts have been made to dilute it

Maharashtra forest department bans collection of tendu leaves from areas prone to forest fires

Tendu contractors and gram panchayats to be responsible for prevention and extinguishing of fires

Forest titles only on paper

Officials deny tribal village its forest management rights      

Forest dwellers denied rights

Government considering amending Forest Rights Act

Sour and sweet - Gujarat

Tadoba tiger reserve An unsafe haven

No return of the native

High-risk trade

MFP is a renewable, reliable source of income, but faces many threats

Nepal's poor carry it off

As the Himalayan country's forestry scheme for the poor reaps rich dividends, its government entrusts more degraded areas to the underprivileged. …

Mendha Lekha's struggle for bamboo rights

Relocation by half measure

How to plant trees for development

There is no economic value seen in forests, but there is value seen in the development project for which forestland is required

Graziers protest land diversion

The last remaining contiguous grasslands in Karnataka diverted for development

Tribals, forest department at loggerheads over tendu leaves

Current tendu leaf collection wages seven times less than state minimum wage

Bamboo now a minor forest produce

Amended Forest Rights Act rules notified; more powers to gram sabha

Forest department’s role in managing forest resources curtailed

“Women being denied forest claims’

Report by non-profits highlights gender disparity in Forest Rights Act implementation

Among the non-believers

A forester’s  perspective on green governance

From forestry to productive forestry

Maharashtra muddies bamboo rights

Activists say forest department trying to dilute Forest Rights Act

As told to Parliament (December 19, 2022): No evidence to link poor AQI in NCR with green cracker burning

Delhi-NCR air quality in October, November 2022 best in 7 years, Ashwini Kumar Choubey tells Lok Sabha

Bamboo liberation day

According to former environment minister Jairam Ramesh, minor forest produce is a ownership right vested by Parliament under Forest Rights Act