A timely compendium

Resource rift

Between Nagaland, centre

New Brazil law for environmental transparency

Over the past few months, Rachel Biderman Furriela -- a Brazil-based lawyer and activist -- has been punching the keys of her laptop furiously. …

Still vexed

Regulating access to biodiversity and ensuring justice for its traditional knowledge holders

Documenting the Northeast's tribal laws

Land is central to the tribal identity in the region too easily abbreviated 'northeast'. Jeuti baruah knows this too well. As director of the Law …

Organic states

Mizoram passes legislation to go fully organic, Sikkim already on the path

Overshadowed

CITES proceeds cautiously, in the wake of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Observing jungle laws

The first historico-legal analysis of forestry regulations in Northeast India

India's rehabilitation policy under scanner yet again

Alternative rehab policy lost in a maze of committees

Stop trade

Soligas harvested forest produce. For them, it was a sustainable business. Then, irrationally, government moved to

JPC's good work on Tribal Bill

JPC suggestions go beyond forest rights paradigm

Review report of Armed Forces (Speical Powers) Act

Dialogues of identity

Bill of wrongs

In overhauling the wildlife act, MEF could ride roughshod over people's rights

Licence to kill

MP government mulls proposal to facilitate hunting of crop-eating wild animals

Wildlife board discovers it has no say

Though touted as a statutory body with teeth, the National Wildlife Board was tamed by Union minister for environment and forests T R Baalu at …

One step forward, many steps back

Some recent amendments to the Wildlife Protection Act could infuse new life into a fusty act, but there are others that threaten to pull matters back

Bundled out

Villagers in Pench National Park sent packing

Forest ministry favours intrusion

The biggest threat protected areas across the country face right now is from their purported protector -- the Union ministry of environment and …

Mission impossible?

The sheer scope of the biodiversity action plan may militate against its successful implementation

Half-measure

NAFTA tribunal's ban on potential carcinogen leaves larger environmental issues unaddressed

Net gain

Villagers around Tawa reservoir in Madhya Pradesh are finally allowed to retain fishing rights

Heavy on the purse?

Measuring efficiency of electric appliances fails to take off in India

Controlling water

People in Andhra Pradesh now need official consent to sink new wells

Costly largesse

US unveils safety net for its farmers, shackling global free trade and posing a threat to environment