Bamboo still a distant dream
No village in Maharashtra other than Mendha Lekha has been able to access bamboo
Village in arms
Rejected forest rights to be reconsidered: tribal affairs minister
It may not be possible to reject land title claims filed under Forest Rights Act in future
Betrayal via bamboo
Largest paper manufacturer is using most of the bamboo in Maharashtra, leaving little for residents
Bamboo freed
Maharashtra village India’s first to win right to harvest bamboo. Eyes now on other forest produce
Bamboo a minor forest produce: Ramesh
Forest departments had been refusing the control over bamboo by forest dwellers
Price tag for tendu, bamboo
Government struggles to calculate cost of forest produce
Misplaced pride
Protectors dubbed criminals
Tribals in Madhya Pradesh celebrate festival to reclaim forests; officials say they are encroaching land
Paan loses flavour
Iconic paan no more appeals to farmers, traders and common people. They say the contagious spread of chewing tobacco, especially gutkha, is fast …
Forestry, the Mexican way
Making money through herbs in Himachal
Medicinal plants can improve the fortunes of state's rural poor
‘State has tendu trade right’
Expert panel report denies forest dwellers this lucrative right
Give us 18 sq km
Odisha village takes up tendu trade, but finds no buyers
Government does not provide market linkages or support price after deregulating trade in the minor forest produce. It's a conspiracy, say activists
Displaced for nothing
First Asiatic lion, then cheetah: officials struggle to decide which animal to introduce, and when, in Kuno-Palpur sanctuary. But they evict …
Sunderbans a land in limbo
Highs and lows
The government's vanaspati van scheme is good news, but for it to succeed small-scale farmers and local communities have to be brought in its fold
Grow more
There is no land to cultivate medicinal plants, neither are there any legal provisions, nor market access. At present, the risks involved are …
A Himalayan Tragedy
People who have no idea about forests step in to further trade, while the indigenous herb gatherers get exploited further
Herbal heist
Hand-in-glove with the forest department, traders of medicinal plants and herbs make hay while communities who depend on herb gathering for …
Predicting the future
A severe shortage of medicinal plants and herbs threatens ISM. Cultivation may be the only way out. But currently medicinal plants that are …
Court upholds Soliga tribe’s community forest rights
Orders forest department to restore honey seized during raid
Losers again
Maharashtra villages granted community forest rights to print own bamboo permits
Flawed forestland titles to be re-examined, says top forest official