Lawful saviour

Forests for people

Newly democratic Bhutan pushes community forestry to tackle rural poverty  

Forest rights and wrongs in Sonbhadra

Forcible eviction of tribals in Sonbhadra exposes forest rights faultlines

Odisha issues guidelines for FRA convergence plan implementation

The guidelines aim to increase benefits through community involvement

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UNITED NATIONS

Chasing a paper (d)ream

Since the 1990s, the use of recycled paper has unfortunately reduced by half

Talking the walk

Lost in interpretation - Maharashtra

Bamboo sale for bamboo rights

A Maharashtra village demands rights to transport and sell forest produce

Price tag for tendu, bamboo

Government struggles to calculate cost of forest produce

Is JFM relevant?

Two Acts give people rights. JFM only promised partnership

Caution: pastures ahead

Sour and sweet - Gujarat

Tree is not timber

Empowered local governance key for forest restoration and management, finds study

Tree planting drives alone cannot help address climate crisis and biodiversity loss, it highlights

Green nod to 87 development projects in 2 years; 2.3 million trees to be felled: MoEFCC

Of these infrastructure projects, three highway projects will fall in Protected Areas

Himachal villages claim community forest rights for the first time

Threatened by an eviction notice, villages come forward to claim their community rights

Taking the issue Due North

Wise use of forests

Experts discuss sustainable ways to utilise forest products

Changes in Act

Forest talk

An international forum on forests promises to bring in real change

Why are wood bazaars illicit?

Rampant government corruption and faulty institutions bedevil agroforestry in India

Firefighters all

Paper forests: India’s missing stretches of green

The most bad news is what the biennial forest survey report leaves unsaid