The power of the people

Elephant corridors

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Forest certification

Brazil

Destructive fires

Far from an eyewash

Forest facts: delving deeper

'Green Indicators 2004' makes government's complex and unwieldy forest statistics coherent

Proposals put on hold

Panel for second look at diverting protected forests

Dense reasoning

Are the Himalayan forests receding or expanding?

Fined out

PIL over forest slapped down

A voice silenced

Journalist dedicated to forest issues killed in Assam

News snippets

Yatra route to politics

People do not grow what they cannot use

In Court

International Day of Forests 2023: Why mass tree plantation drives are an unscientific approach

A holistic view is necessary where all intact natural ecosystems are secured and degraded ecosystems are functionally restored

Protecting farmlands, not just forests, can also ensure bird biodiversity: study

A new study shows that species richness of birds was higher in agricultural lands than in the protected area, except for specialised species such …

Plantations, CAMPA loom large over community rights

Sal trees, which form an important source of livelihood for the tribal community, have been replaced with teak plantations in an Odisha village

Extreme droughts weaken trees' ability to soak up carbon

Forests take longer than expected to rebound from droughts, diminishing their role as global carbon sinks

A not-very-subtle environmental message

The film should communicae its environmental message far more effectively than the dozens of inept documentaries that have been made on the subject.

Paper capers

A debate crackles over a government decision to allow paper plantations to remain in degraded forests

A step forward

A new draft has been prepared by the Union ministry of environment and forests to draw up a legislation regulating the country's biodiversity. …

Illegal eagles

The Madhya Pradesh government's decision to call in the private sector to convert state forest lands into captive plantations, impinges on people'…