Baiga tribals become India’s first community to get habitat rights

The administration used a gazette notification passed by the colonial British government, which recognised these areas as home of the Baigas, to …

POSCO gets green signal

Environment ministry goes soft on South Korean steel giant POSCO

Forest rights act under scrutiny

Environment ministry does not seem open to criticism

Battle for Niyamgiri turns ugly

Odisha government tries to manipulate forest rights claims of Niyamgiri tribals

The MoEF-NHAI roadblock

Two Central government arms fight over de-linking of forest, environment clearances

Operation Saranda: from Maoists to Miners

Spring of discontent

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

Land acquisition for Posco begins

Class room

How bamboo was liberated

Reality check

Vedanta and lessons in conservation

Package POSCO

The Odisha government is trying to acquire land on a shoddily drawn compensation package

Wealth of forests withheld

Forest departments across the country owe millions of rupees to communities. For 20 years communities toiled under the Joint Forest Management …

Last ditch attempt

UPA gives sops under MGNREGS to attract rural voters ahead of elections

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 …

Odisha food commission stresses on FRA to beat hunger

Panel chief writes to all collectors to implement Forest Rights Act properly

Next hearing in FRA case on September 12

Apex court asks all states to file affidavits within 15 days

Collective efforts can combat challenges faced by ultra-poor in Jharkhand

The intersection of caste, gender & occupational identities impacts their lives

Centre again revisits minimum support prices of key minor forest produce  

Latest guidelines have fixed MSPs that favour traders rather than the forest gatherers