Bamboo still a distant dream

No village in Maharashtra other than Mendha Lekha has been able to access bamboo

La farce

Bamboo freed

Maharashtra village India’s first to win right to harvest bamboo. Eyes now on other forest produce

Forest alert

Saxena panel report on Niyamgiri puts states under watch for forest, tribal rights violations

Simply put: Odisha rejects more than 10,000 FRA claims

Uttar Pradesh grants 3 forest villages revenue status under FRA

Kaluwala, Sodhinagar and Bhagwatpur were given the revenue status, which means that the inhabitants, Tongia tribals, will now have access to …

‘Someone should speak on behalf of environment’

Shibani Ghosh, the author of Indian Environmental Law: Key Concepts and Principles, speaks to Down To Earth on the role judiciary plays in …

Baiga Tribes Get Habitat Rights for the first time in Independent India

Ramesh Sharma, Convener, Ekta Parishad gives an insight about the indigenous primitive tribes of India. Out of 76 primitive tribes Baigas …

Madhya Pradesh's call to bamboo investors reignites debate over forest access

Agreements for planting bamboo over 36,000 sq km of forestland take away the rights of the community, say forest rights activists

Congress socialist party?

Left-of-centre agenda must not be abandoned

Forest rights and wrongs in Sonbhadra

Forcible eviction of tribals in Sonbhadra exposes forest rights faultlines

Election boycott over mining

Residents protest iron mining in Maharashtra tehsil; authorities blame murder for boycott

SC vacates Madras HC order staying issue of pattas to forest dwellers

The Madras High Court had passed an interim order in April 2008 staying the issue of pattas in Tamil Nadu without its permission

Price tag for tendu, bamboo

Government struggles to calculate cost of forest produce

Mining giant offers peanuts

Villagers make a bonfire of POSCO’s offer in newspaper

Walk the village talk

After raising the political profile of village councils, government wants to downsize them

Protectors dubbed criminals

Tribals in Madhya Pradesh celebrate festival to reclaim forests; officials say they are encroaching land

Caution: pastures ahead

Adivasi & forest communities in Bengal pledge to protect their environmental & cultural identities

Activists from the Dooars to the Sundarbans call for implementation of FRA in its true spirit, among other demands  

In a first, Odisha studies potential forest land under FRA

New estimate offers ‘baseline for planning and effective implementation of forest rights Act recognition’ 

DTE Reportage: What will the rejection of Individual Forest Rights claims mean?

Down To Earth reports from the ground and places things in perspective

‘Indigenous people have been effective stewards of biodiversity globally’

Down To Earth speaks to University of Connecticut professor Prakash Kashwan about his book, Democracy in the Woods

It’s a hot potato for PepsiCo and farmers

The corporate giant claims that the farmers are cultivating their proprietary FC5 potatoes without permission

Chhattisgarh govt keeps poll promise, starts review of rejected FRA claims

The step is a reflection of how issues related to FRA have become politically relevant, say activists

Civil society criticises Centre’s Global Wildlife Programme, doubts minister’s claims

The Global Wildlife Programme has been launched in partnership with World Bank and United Nations Development Programme to curb illegal wildlife …