1997 repeated

How tribals are conned out of their timber

Green action: Four arrested in Bihar for cutting down dozens of trees near major hospital

Trees were being felled and sold to timber traders for many months near Muzaffarpur’s SKMCH hospital, according to reports

Turn off taps on poachers: Financial crimes linked to illegal wildlife, timber trade in EU going unpunished, flags report

Criminal assets remaining in the hands of poachers, giving them the liberty to invest in more illicit operations

Corruption in timber trade fuels deforestation, biodiversity loss

Illegal timber trade also gives rise to conflicts between local communities and logging companies

Himachal Pradesh forest staff to be equipped with arms to curb smuggling

The personnel posted in the checkposts in these areas can carry pistols, guns, revolvers or rifles to check illegal felling and smuggling of trees

BRAZIL

Cops under cloud

SC takes note of police involvement in timber smuggling in Madhya Pradesh

RAPPED FOR INACTION

Wood for scandal

While the Union government has finally permitted Tamil Nadu to export sandalwood, State monopoly of the trade is yet to be abolished

CAUTION:only loggers allowed

How do you destroy a forest? Cover it under Project Tiger and alienate the local people. An example from Bihar

A brigand called government

Whatever the outcome of the hostages crisis in Karnataka, stupid sandalwood protection laws will keep creating smugglers out of India's exploited …

Catch me if you can

FOLLOW UP

Protecting forests

Police vehicle to be confiscated

India is third largest importer of illegally-logged wood: IUFRO

With an annual import value of over Rs 40 billion, the country accounts for close to 10 per cent of the global illegal wood trade

When alienation ruins

Sandalwood smuggling, epitomised by Veerappan, has become a collective phenomenon involving entire villages, which even the ban on sandalwood …

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

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