Bamboo liberation day

According to former environment minister Jairam Ramesh, minor forest produce is a ownership right vested by Parliament under Forest Rights Act

The cutting edge

Conservationists in Brazil come up with a model way to reduce the pressure on forests

SC & Centre wrangle over forest committee

Nearly 3 bln animals perished in Australian bushfires: WWF study

An estimated 143 million mammals, 180 million birds, 51 million frogs and 2.5 billion reptiles affected

Two incidents that made me ask: Whither forestry extension?

Extension programmes in forest institutions are meant to benefit stakeholders, mainly farmers, villagers and rural communities

Unique replacement for fuelwood in Nagaland

Chhattisgarh revokes: Forest dept no longer nodal agency for community rights

Chhattisgarh government reinstates the role of the forest department to coordinate claims that are to be filed by communities, …

India among top 10 countries gaining forest area in the world: FAO

Half of people employed in forestry in the world are in India  

Price tag for tendu, bamboo

Government struggles to calculate cost of forest produce

Tree-planting campaigns can reduce, not improve biodiversity, shows study

Tree plantations can contradict the real purpose of planting trees, according to the study

Forestry, the Mexican way

Making money through herbs in Himachal

Medicinal plants can improve the fortunes of state's rural poor

Give us 18 sq km

Forest paradox

To give forest dwellers their due rights, forest governance must go beyond the environment and include the communities at stake

Forest to farms

India's paper industry now sources more wood from farmers. Why does it still demand forestland?

China set to reform forest laws

Foresters, villagers vie for land in Bengal

Nearly 213 ha in protected areas diverted between April and July

Standing committee of the National Board for Wildlife approved 21 projects for diversion, deferred 7 for later

Nearly 500 ha forest land in protected areas diverted in 2019

Standing committee of the National Board for Wildlife gave nod to carry out 68 projects in protected areas 

State inaction

The traditional forest dweller has had very few entitlements down centuries. Guardian of the forest, he has been regarded as encroacher by the …

Private affairs

The invitation was innocuous. The Confederation of Indian Industry (cii) -- the grouping of the large and most powerful industries -- was …

INDIA

India continues to lose forest land to non-forestry projects

Central environment ministry reports diversion of 11,467 hectares forest land in 2019 (up to first week of November) 

Class room

How bamboo was liberated