Pan-India Transit Permit for bamboo soon
The environment ministry is planning to introduce a pan-India bamboo permit, which will eliminate the need for multiple permits
Newly amended SC/ST Prevention of Atrocity Act fails to bring justice to land grab victims in Chhattisgarh
8 months after 4 Gharghora villages filed complaints against TRN Energy and Mahaveer Energy for wrongfully grabbing their land, the police …
Environment, forest ministry finalising transfer of Rs 50,000-crore CAMPA funds to states
Compensatory afforestation funds belong to the state and it was kept temporarily with the Centre
Budget 2018: NDA’s tribal development scheme reduced to tokenism
Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana was introduced in 2014 for the overall development of tribal communities
Cannot evict tribals from tiger reserves without their consent: NCST
Earlier, NTCA rejected forest rights under the Forest Rights Act, 2006 in tiger reserves
Uttarakhand district violates Forest Rights Act for Pancheshwar dam project
The Pithoragarh administration has not even formed district-level committee to implement FRA
GST breather for Sal plates, Sabai ropes
Tax on these two minor forest products, a source of livelihood for millions of tribals, has been reduced from 18 per cent to 5 per cent
A nationwide wave
Farmers are under heavy debt, but loan waivers only treat the symptom, not the disease afflicting India's farm sector
NGT orders probe into Essar’s ‘illegal’ constructions in Gujarat's eco-sensitive zone
The commitee has been tasked to ascertain exact area which is being used by Essar Bulk Terminal (Salaya) Ltd (EBT)
Project Lion: Proposal identifies 6 relocation sites apart from Kuno-Palpur
The proposal seeks to create free ranging lion populations within Gujarat and in India to counter lack of genetic diversity within Asiatic lions
वन्य जीव कानून में खामियां, शामिल नहीं हैं कई जीवों की प्रजातियां
भारत के वन्यजीव कानून में नई वैज्ञानिक खोजों और जानकारियों को सम्मिलित नहीं किया गया है, जिससे वन्यजीव प्रबंधन के क्षेत्र में भ्रम की ...
Debate: Should forest guards in India be armed with firearms?
Will giving guns to forest guards make them secure in their job? Or will it lead to tragic consequences for forest dwellers? Down To Earth puts …
चमोली आपदा: चिपको आंदोलन की पीढ़ी बेबस होकर गांवों से करना चाहती है पलायन
चमोली त्रासदी के बाद चिपको आंदोलन की पीढ़ी इन दिनों पहाड़ जैसे दुखों का सामना कर रही है। उसे लग रहा है कि हिमालयी ...
Economic Survey 2021 backs setting up of Social Stock Exchange in India
It will be set up under the regulatory ambit of the Securities and Exchange Board of India
40,000 trees cut near Odisha’s Talabira village to make way for coal mine
Local residents, in charge of forest for half a century, not taken into confidence before tree felling
छत्तीसगढ़ में वन अधिकार दावे वाली जमीन से बॉक्साइट खनन पर हाईकोर्ट ने लगाई रोक
आदिवासियों के वन अधिकार वाली जगह पर बॉक्साइट खनन किया जा रहा है, जिस पर अदालत ने रोक लगा दी है
Final National Forest Policy to be out soon
Most comments in the draft policy concern with the dilution of the Forest Rights Act and opening up forest land for private players
What’s causing untimely forest fires in Kashmir? Prolonged dry spell
During this time of the year, the state generally receives around 40 per cent of its rainfall during this time, but that has not been the case …
Aliens in Toda paradise
The pastoral Toda community in the upper Nilgiris is losing its Shola grasslands to invasive species
Nilgiris tribals allege they were duped of compensation
21 tribal families say forest officials allied with property dealers to dupe them of the money they received for relocating from Tamil Nadu’…
यूएनसीसीडी कॉप-14: नई दिल्ली घोषणा पत्र से गायब हुए दो अहम मुद्दे
नई दिल्ली घोषणा पत्र में अंतर्राष्ट्रीय वित्तीय संस्थानों और वनवासियों को अधिकार दिए जाने के प्रस्ताव को शामिल नहीं किया गया
Centre may open 43,000 ha of Jharkhand’s Saranda forest for mining
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change orders formation of a committee to look into the prospect of amending Management Plan for …
Claims under FRA being wrongfully rejected in Bengal
Claims that had been piling up since 2010 are now being rejected at the instance of the forest department
Chhattisgarh govt begins process to grant FRA to Abujmarh tribals
Government to grant habitat rights to Abujh Marias, a particularly vulnerable tribal group that reside in the forest, considered a bastion of Naxalism
Information recharge: Meet Devansh Mehta of CGnet Swara
Devansh Mehta believes that people can be sensitised through incentives, be it as small as mobile top-ups