Cheated for bauxite
Andhra Pradesh circumvents all regulations to mine bauxite from tribal land
Tricks of diminishing returns
Clever calculations and the great wall of bureaucracy
Freeing bamboo from the state
A recent notification making bamboo a minor forest produce can only be the first step
Gram sabha gets a boost
Supreme Court asks gram sabhas to see if Vedanta’s bauxite mine harms religious rights
Don’t say bamboo
Aparna Pallavi travels to Gadchiroli district to find out why villages relinquished forest rights
How government is subverting Forest Rights Act
Does this official data betray a conspiracy? Only 1.6 per cent of the 2.9 million claims approved under the Forest Rights Act recognise community …
Collective efforts can combat challenges faced by ultra-poor in Jharkhand
The intersection of caste, gender & occupational identities impacts their lives
Next hearing in FRA case on September 12
Apex court asks all states to file affidavits within 15 days
Odisha food commission stresses on FRA to beat hunger
Panel chief writes to all collectors to implement Forest Rights Act properly
Centre again revisits minimum support prices of key minor forest produce
Latest guidelines have fixed MSPs that favour traders rather than the forest gatherers
Name change of Forest Conservation Act imperative, as it is treated as ‘Forest Clearance Act’: DG forests
Joint Parliamentary Committee accepted all proposed amendments to Act, including name change, on July 20
Reclassifying forests, exemptions from clearances: What changes does Bill to amend Forest Conservation Act propose
Forest Conservation (Amendment) Bill, 2023 is among the Bills set to be tabled in Parliament’s ongoing monsoon session
Huts of knowledge: These tribal women in Odisha teach their next generation about forests through ‘kutir’ meetings
Apart from sharing traditional knowledge, the women at these meetings also spread awareness on ownership rights
40,000 trees cut near Odisha’s Talabira village to make way for coal mine
Local residents, in charge of forest for half a century, not taken into confidence before tree felling
Claims under FRA being wrongfully rejected in Bengal
Claims that had been piling up since 2010 are now being rejected at the instance of the forest department
Chhattisgarh govt begins process to grant FRA to Abujmarh tribals
Government to grant habitat rights to Abujh Marias, a particularly vulnerable tribal group that reside in the forest, considered a bastion of Naxalism
Information recharge: Meet Devansh Mehta of CGnet Swara
Devansh Mehta believes that people can be sensitised through incentives, be it as small as mobile top-ups
All about the first-ever global assessment on biodiversity
Down To Earth followed the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services’ from when it was a draft to …
Reforms in India’s forest sector stuck in reverse gear
The proposed amendment to the IFA reveals the mindset of policymakers regarding the forest sector has not changed
Now tribal affairs ministry FRA claim settlement number under cloud
Is there something fishy behind giving wrong data for over a decade and then disowning it?
Rightful or rightless: Forest villagers in Saranda struggle to shed ‘illegal’ tag
Jharkhand forest department refuses to recognise rights of occupants of forest villages like Marchi gada in West Singhbhum
Villagers win brewing forest rights fight in Odisha
The Odisha government had to scrap a Rs 102 crore brewing project when resolute villagers braved the government and police to protect felling of …
Final National Forest Policy to be out soon
Most comments in the draft policy concern with the dilution of the Forest Rights Act and opening up forest land for private players
Kalahandi forest dwellers allege FRA violation by state forest department
Activists say that in 3 villages of Kalahand district, the Odisha forest department is imposing on the rights of forest …
Uttarakhand sits on forest right claims settlement for two years in a row
With the state assembly election around the corner, the model code of conduct is the favourite excuse for non implementation of FRA