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Latest updates from Mendha Lekha

DTE reportage on bamboo

The unfolding story

Is bamboo a tree or a grass?

Mendha Lekha's struggle for bamboo rights

History matters

The Forest Rights Act augurs differently for two tribal communities in Kerala

Vanishing green

Inadequate compensation of villagers for ecosystem services weakens conservation efforts

Situation of villagers in Palampur village, Himachal Pradesh is a good case study 

Over 57k hectares of forest land diverted in Odisha, says new report

Most of the forest land (28,409 hectares) was diverted for 186 mining projects

Forest fires in India tripled in the last four months

Five southern states account more than a third of fires in 2019

Ridge riddle

Shrinking cover

Forests are disappearing at an alarming rate the world-over, says a recent study

Talking green

Participants at an international conference on forest management discuss ways to curb logging

Protectors of the forest

Saara adivasis in Orissa have undertaken measures to conserve forest wealth

Community Participation and Sustainable Forest Development Global Perspective

Illusive relief

For Nepal's forest users

Cutting losses?

Compensatory afforestation in trouble

Timber soldiers

Remote control

Simply Put: Forest Act revision

Elusive forest contracts

Lost in the deep woods

Home is in the Amazon