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'…

Forest guardians

THE LAST FRONTIER: PEOPLE AND FORESTS IN MIZORAM·Daman Singh·Tata Energy Research Institute, New Delhi

Tracking India's wealth

India has come out with maps of its biodiversity-rich regions, one of the first countries to do so in the world. It was the fruit of a five-year …

Elusive bride price

ALOK GUPTA visits a Bihar village where people are building a road to get wives

Simply Put: Hasdeo selfie point

Simply Put: Renaming Forest Conservation Act

Simply Put: Diamonds are for whatever!

Proposed amendment to Indian Forest Act would deepen injustice

It will change the fundamentals of community-driven forest governance that has taken roots in the past decades

Why India’s celebrating World Water Day and Forest Day is a farce

Instead of salvaging these highly essential resources, our country is busy butchering them

Environmentalist and Supreme Court lawyer Sanjay Upadhyay talks about planting bamboo on forest land

Parikh explains why private investors may not appreciate Government of India's scheme to allow bamboo plantations on degraded forest land

Where dry gardens wilt

India is one of the 17 megadiverse countries, with over 11 per cent of the world's plant species. Herbaria across the country store millions of …

Petty squabbles signify ill for the forest rights question

CAMPA bill defeated

Meaning of 'forest' set to change in India

How should a 'forest' be defined in India? The Union ministry of environment and forests is currently preoccupied with this question. Placing …

CAMPA funds unlocked

Karnataka fast tracks power plant

Dhamra port on mangrove land

Odisha government insists port is on wasteland

India unlikely to meet carbon sink commitment

The current rate of afforestation is lower than what is needed to achieve the target

Valuing the environment

Requiem for wasteland development

Ecological ultras

Wasting the east

CHINA

JFM in jeopardy

A proposal to regularise encroachments in forests creates a flutter