Behind the frontier
CONTESTED FRONTIERS IN AMAZONIA Marianne Schmink and Charles H Wood Publisher: Columbia University Press Price: $35
A Cash-hungry Russia eyes its Siberian coniferous forests
The Siberian forests are facing the axe from a Russia eager to top the financial potencial of its timber.
A bunch of saps
Will a recent conference help to compensate the victims of jackboot and power-blinded national afforestation policies?
Brazil's sorrow
From homeland to terra incognita, the indigenous lands of Brazil have today fallen prey to a draconian decree
Born again
The dense Melaghar forests in Tripura that were destroyed during the Bangladesh war have been revived through the efforts of the Acharya Jagdish …
The deadly sting
Experts follow the world's longest venomous snake, with a bite potent enough to kill an elephant, through the rain forests of peninsular India.
India’s forest cover goes up by nearly 3% this decade; but all is not well
'Very dense forests', which absorb maximum carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, increased by a mere 1.14 % between 2017 and 2019, according …
False predictions
For years, energy experts and foresters have believed that the poor will eat away the forests of the developing world like locusts in order to …
Global Forest Resource Assessment: Tropical forests the size of Europe lost in first 20 years of this century
Deforestation slowed by 30% in 2010-18; cropland, oil palm plantation and grazing biggest drivers of deforestation
The earth likely holds more than 9,000 undiscovered tree species; and they are in danger
Undiscovered tree species are more likely to be present in in tropical and subtropical dry forests, which are threatened by development projects
Menagerie of new species
An inaccessible forest region on the Laos-Vietnam border may be home to animals and birds not found anywhere else in the world
Catch a tiger by its pug
Accurate tiger census methodology assumes significance in the context of the recent controversy over the declining number of tigers in the Indian …
Arunachal's green could soon turn brown
Acquiring prime forest land near town and highway and then selling it at an exorbitant price has become routine in the state
But who manages the managers?
MANAGING THE WORLD'S FORESTS: LOOKING FOR BALANCE BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT Edited by Narendra P Sharma Publisher: Kendall/Hunt …
Of barren hills and barrel smoke
Militancy has destroyed much more than peace in Kashmir. Kalashnikov-trotting extremists are ravaging the last green frontiers of the 'heaven on …
Cycle of change
A new development programme in Palamau in Bihar, a rich land with poor people, can set the pace for a reversal of fortune
Dang and blast
The anachronistic, and explosive, colonial formula of exploiting forests by denying the forest people their rights is still being followed to the …
Writing off the world's forests
As the global demand for paper rockets, forests in the Asia-Pacific are being targeted for paper plantations
Out of the woods?
Some exciting recent developments indicate that India's forest people might soon have their home rights restored and be allowed to manage their …
The spear pierceth...
Irian Jaya, in Indonesia, is witnessing the descretion of its rainforests by a mining firm; an oft-repeated story, one would think, but the …
Forest-risk goods
Export-oriented commercial agriculture is the single largest driver of tropical deforestation, argues a new book
Forest rights
Adivasis draft an alternative forest bill and a rehabilitation policy to safeguard India's forests
Windowdressing forestry
Applause and international funding of a forestry project greenwashes the cruel realities of the people living there
Turning out new leaves
Roots of Datia Directed by K Bikram Singh 30 mins English Format: Betacam Produced by East West Media Communications Pvt Ltd
Fringe benefits
Twilight zones between two habitats could lead to divergence of species and even originate new ones