Nurturing effect of pine

Pine trees have helped restore native vegetation in Sri Lanka’s Sinharaja Forest Reserve

Call of the wild

A unique festival epitomises efforts for conservation of Assam rainforests which have been lying in a state of neglect for decades

How to use free satellite data to monitor natural disasters and environmental changes

Increasing availability of open-access data from government satellites have made it possible for everyone to gain insight into …

Lost battle

It is no use trying to save the rainforests, warns a new study

Uganda protests over sugar plantation on forestland

According to report

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Andaman Trunk Road ignores SC order, affects Jarawas' lives

Rainforest route to clean economy

Kyotos successor should put an economic value to rainforests. A recent treaty shows how

Issue at hand

Science needs to come home -- scientists need to address the concerns of the local communities

Empower communities to restore forests: Study

Crucial forest-restoration areas in low-income countries — home to 12 per cent of their total population — can have an impact on …

Mutual interest

Farmers care for the hill slopes only when the hills provide livelihood -- a simple lesson that has been forgotten

Indian media on riots in Uganda

Flame in the rainforest

LATHA JISHNU discovers how indigenous communities in Ecuador are fighting to protect Amazonia from oil extraction

Old as the hills

Shifting agriculture on the hillsides has been going on for centuries. In recent times, it has been blamed for degrading the ecology. Agriculture …

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Book The economics of biodiversity conservation valuation in tropical forest ecosystems

Book>> The Economics of Biodiversity Conservation Valuation in Tropical Forest Ecosystems

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Brazilian soy traders help preserve Amazon

Biofuel project in Indonesia faces flak

Brazil passes Atlantic Forest Exploitation and Preservation Law

Indonesian forests to be traded on carbon market

Brazil's Environment Minister Marina Silva resigns

Rainforest map to assert rights