Women and forests

A study probes the role of women in afforestation programmes

Oily mess

The US environment protection agency pulls up polluting oil companies

Trees against deserts

Grow more trees around fields and along waterbodies to prevent desertification

An agency for forests

Double whammy

Two proposed moves that could drastically alter forest management in India

Cedar crisis

Numbers declining fast; afforestation insufficient

A new body to recover CAMPA funds

Ad hoc body to organise afforestation funds

Afforestation drive

Rural priorities must be set by villagers

The buck stops here

Rajasthan's ambitions

Planters devils?

The debate over captive plantations for the paper industry rages like a prairie fire

Increasing green cover

Cutting losses?

Compensatory afforestation in trouble

Group greening

Increase in green cover, says report

India has 28,000 ha more forests than last year, according to the Forest Survey of India

Back to forests

The Tamil Nadu government decides to revive its forest cover

Afforestation

JAPAN

Forestmaker

A man who has done commendable work in afforestation remains hidden from the limelight

CHINA

Trading deforestation

How China's growing wood imports are affecting its neighbours

The angry giants

Soil conservation work came cheap in Jhabua, but a lot remains to be done

CAMPA funds should be used to conserve nature

Increase in funding has not resulted in significant increase in forest cover

Ten myths and fallacies about afforestation

It is no panacea for increasing green cover