Grassroots victory

FRA emboldens tribals in Dudhwa to demand control over grass

Forest rights

SC takes stock of Forest Rights Act

Touch that heals trees

Court allows forest pattas in Andhra

Centre stops work at POSCO site

Committee reports violation of tribal and forest rights

Tribals challenge forest department

For mining Tadoba tiger reserve

How natural resources doomed UPA

Management of natural resources will be the toughest job for the new government

Split approach

Like neighbours

Maharashtra muddies bamboo rights

Activists say forest department trying to dilute Forest Rights Act

Village bullied for using its forest

Forest department registers offence against a gram sabha for felling bamboo clusters

Bamboo still a distant dream

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

La farce

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

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

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

Caution: pastures ahead

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

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

UPA announces poll sop for tribals

Centre promises 150 days of work to tribal households under MGNREGA

‘State has tendu trade right’

Expert panel report denies forest dwellers this lucrative right

Kaziranga simmers on fringes

People take to streets against eviction notices and tiger reserve tag

Verdict aftershock