Brazil

A law creates an outlaw

Cracking the whip

Popular campaign

Illegal Felling

School kids turned smugglers

Community-based natural resource management in Himachal still weak

A host of measures are needed to ensure community-based natural resource management and better provisioning of ecological services for the …

New model agriculture law aims to increase farmers’ income

The draft law proposes to ensure profitable returns to farmers through features such as electronic registration, direct sale to buyers and …

Forest productivity - Lumber slumber

Forest Development Corporations are yet to keep pace with the rising demand for timber, though cultivable lands exist

When alienation ruins

Sandalwood smuggling, epitomised by Veerappan, has become a collective phenomenon involving entire villages, which even the ban on sandalwood …

Making furniture from eucalyptus wood

Though scientists have developed a way to saw eucalyptus wood without cracking or twisting it, furniture makers aren't convinced of its utility.

COVID-19: Timber export from Africa takes a hit, says report

Timber exports from Cameroon and Gabon to European countries suffer 

The amendment to the Indian Forest Act, 1927 will create new markets & jobs for poor communities

After amending Section 2(7) of Indian Forest Act, 1927, bamboo is no longer a tree. This enables the livelihoods of forest communities as well as …

Parliamentary panel recommends MSP for timber

Committee acted on idea by TERI to encourage aforestation 

Stake in logging

IVORY COAST

The last frontier?

ILLEGAL LOGGING

Has anything changed?

Quincy remains an exception. The old story continues at the national level

Community efforts

In which the people of Quincy got their act together

Troubled history

Local communities have always been stuck in no man's land in the US

THAILAND

Teak smuggling rampant

Tokyo’s gamble with its Olympic architecture needs to be appreciated

This first of a two-part series examines the use of timber in designing the games village and venues rather than concrete

Forest-risk goods

Export-oriented commercial agriculture is the single largest driver of tropical deforestation, argues a new book