Resentment sets fire to Nagarhole

FOREST DESTRUCTION

FOREST DESTRUCTION

CONFISCATION POWER

Sandal act

Winds of change in the scented wood

Poplar demand

Trees take centrestage in Himachal Pradesh

Protests over toxic gold mining at Nile: Will there be truce in Sudan

A vicious network of gold smuggling has over taken the region following the Russia-aided military coup in 2021 

More land, less timber

Ban on harvesting of timber may not solve the problem of deforestation in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province

Making a killing

Only poachers profit from rules and regulations that alienate local people from natural resources

World Cheetah Day 2022: Social media fuels illegal trade in the species

World lacks environmental awareness, resources to stop the menace

Andhra Pradesh to sell 4,000 tonnes of red sanders

State to call global tenders soon to sell wood seized from smugglers

Here's how government is encouraging illegal trade in red sanders

A contradictory policy towards export of red sanders is fuelling illegality and hurting farmers

CAMBODIA

Trouble in Tripura

Restrictions on jhum cultivation, large-scale immigration and timber smuggling have made Tripura an environmentally poor state

'The forest mafia is very powerful'

AJAY S RAWAT spent six months in the Indo-Nepal terais to trace the methods of timber smugglers

Felling halted

Curbs on extraction of timber in Kerala's Wayanad district

Turncoat 'thieves'

Former teak smugglers become official forest guards

Illegal logging major threat to development in west Africa: FAO

The activities not only harm economies but are also a source of funding for terror groups

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 10, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal  

Revamp forest policy

Callous forest law

Woman power

When the men of Dengajhari failed, women took up arms to protect their forests

Climate change projects aren't working because communities are left out

Unless they trust climate change programmes, communities will continue to plunder forests rendering such interventions redundant

20 alleged sandalwood smugglers killed in firing in Andhra Pradesh

Red sandalwood smuggling has thrived over the past 10 years. But the trade has once again taken a bloody turn, bringing back memories of the …

King without a jungle

The sandalwood forests are gone. Now an ageing Veerappan looks for greener pastures