Letters

Bill Gates is not entirely wrong about trees. He’s not entirely right either

The billionaire recently claimed planting trees would have little effect on climate change

Afforestation wages in cash

Chhattisgarh violates Supreme Court order

UNEP report at COP28 reveals $7 trillion invested globally every year on activities directly harming nature

Urgent need to reduce and re-direct finance flows to keep global temperatures below 1.5°C warming

IN COURT

It can be painless

Some civil servants have relocated forest dwellers successfully

Letters

Letters

Spring of discontent

Mining in Odisha’s Khandadhar hills will dry out perennial water bodies

Threat to African tropical grasslands by misguided tree planting, study warns

An area size of France threatened by forest restoration initiatives; tree planting widespread across non-forest systems

The roots of prosperity

The woods march back to barren forest department land as villagers in Gujarat's Panchmahals district grab the spade

We can overcome

It was the most polluted city in the US, and now, it is the recipient of the UN Best Practices Award. Chattanoogans have spearheaded this …

Brotherhood of greens

The desolation around Udaipur in Rajasthan is giving way to vegetation through the efforts of cooperative societies

Sea change in the forest

Tribals in Orissa's Eastern Ghats range are giving up shifting cultivation and fiercely protecting their forests

Growth that inhibits

Researchers from the US have recently declared that it may be possible to reduce the degree of mercury pollution in the soil by simply growing …

A bunch of saps

Will a recent conference help to compensate the victims of jackboot and power-blinded national afforestation policies?

Lost in the jungle

The anti-people attitude that environmental NGOs had vehemently opposed in the '80s has resurfaced in the recent draft Forest Policy Bill. The …

The environment war

The army has taken to environment resuscitation with prganised fervour, but is still facing a barrage of criticism from state forest

Saving to survive

Impending doom has prompted villagers in Bihar and Orissa to protect their forests from natural calamities. And humans

Hardy babul does well with crops

Field trials prove a deep-rooted tree indigenous to Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra grows well in the Thar desert.

Environmental entropy

Responding to Global Warming: The Technology, Economics and Politics of Sustainable Energy by Peter Read Publisher: Zed Books Ltd Price: Not stated

Model land

SOCIAL FORESTRY IN INDIA: ANALYSIS OF VARIOUS MODELS D Sen, A P Purandare and P K Das Publisher: National Institute of Rural Development, …

Fallacy in figure

During the 1980s the rate of destruction of natural forests was reduced as compared to the 1970s. Most of the deforestation took place in the …

Village Forest -- with Draft Rules Under Sec 28 of Indian Forest Act 1927

Millions of Indian villagers today act as guardians of forests, forming a mutually beneficial relationship, quite often without outside help. But …

Odisha tribal organisations protest against draft CAF Rules  

The protests are in opposition to the vague position of the Rules on forest-dwelling communities in the compensatory afforestation process