Disowned 100,000
Taungyas have lived in Uttar Pradesh for decades but law does not recognise them. FRA gives hope
Up for scrutiny
Environment ministry sets up certification scheme for its forests
Virtual coast guard
Non-profits develop web application to monitor haphazard development along Indian coastline
Taungyas get legal recognition
Land titles distributed to 651 families in six Uttar Pradesh villages
Misguided rules
Environment ministry framed guidelines which violate Forest Rights Act
Radio collars for elephants in forests along rail tracks
Environment ministry wants to tag jumbos to track their movements and avert rail accidents
Environment ministry rapped
Parliament committee says serious inadequacies in afforestation, biodiversity programmes
The MoEF-NHAI roadblock
Two Central government arms fight over de-linking of forest, environment clearances
Tiger reserved
Tiger tourism booms without proper regulation; new guidelines attempt to contain damage
Include millets in PDS for food and nutritional security, demand scientists
Area under cultivation of millets is declining in spite of national Food Security Mission
Gram sabha gets a boost
Supreme Court asks gram sabhas to see if Vedanta’s bauxite mine harms religious rights
Tigers buffered
Supreme Court order to notify buffer zones around reserves raises both hope and fear
Rajasthan announces Project Great Indian Bustard
State's population of 100 bustards crucial for recovery of the critically endangered bird in India
A new roadblock
Tribal affairs ministry objects to Maharashtra's Village Forest Rules that violate FRA. Other ministeries pressure it to backtrack
Jungle raj
CAG memo shows IFS officers are administering country’s premier forestry research body like a fiefdom
Battle over oil, coal & forests
No consensus on FRA review
Top forest officials and National Forest Rights Act Committee engage in a war of words
Saranda for sale?
First by diluting it and then by delaying it, the Jharkhand government ensures slow death of a plan meant to safeguard Saranda and its wildlife …
Jairam Ramesh withdraws guidelines violating FRA
Fresh guidelines for creating Critical wildlife Habitat to be prepared in consultation with Tribal Affairs ministry
Biodiversity meet begins; India takes over presidency of CBD
CoP 11 will decide future course of action plans to meet Aichi Targets
Finally, a recovery programme for the neglected bustards
Will MoEF plan save the rare birds endemic to Indian grasslands?
'Mainland tribal people also need autonomous councils'
Autonomous councils in the Northeast are the reason why people there did not lose access to land and forests, says Virginius Xaxa, head of …
Forest rights act under scrutiny
Environment ministry does not seem open to criticism
South Asian nations will now cooperate to save the vulture
Most rapid decline in vulture populations recorded in Asia
Fresh development plan for naxal-affected districts
Rural schemes to be more flexible; get more funds