Chhattisgarh-based environmental activist Alok Shukla was conferred the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for leading a community campaign to protect the…
Colonisation of the forests devastated them and their inhabitants, the forest dwellers and wildlife. To rein in the recalcitrant state…
The Supreme Court directed India’s environment ministry to revert to an older definition of forests whose protections were more “broad…
"Remove Van Gujjars from the forests … and all the animals will die of thirst,” says Mohammad Safi, a community…
Decline in forest produce in Madhya Pradesh is impacting the livelihood of forest dwellers and tribal communities, who collect and…
The ability of forests to take up carbon dioxide is driven by multiple feedback loops, which grow more complex as…
In recent years, cities all over the world have recognised the importance of urban green spaces and have begun incorporating…
A new study evaluating the impacts of the 740-kilometre long Konkan Railway line has thrown up some surprising results related…
Tropical forest landscapes are home to millions of Indigenous peoples and small-scale farmers. Just about every square meter of land…
In 2021, the village of Kodalpalli in Odisha’s Nayagarh district became one of the few places in India where the…
A report by scientists from the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) outlines how the endangered western hoolock gibbon population in…
The indigenous peoples’ engagements with forests are based on respect, responsibility, trust and relationships whereas the modern, post-colonial protected areas…
Allowing forests to regenerate on their own has been championed as a strategy for reducing planet-heating carbon in the atmosphere…
Just days before the Lok Sabha passed the Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, 2023 — with little heed paid to the…
India is now home to at least 3,682 tigers – a new record that surpasses earlier estimates, according to the…
“We are independent from Lantana’s fury,” beams Basant Jharia, a local community member in Central India, a region overwhelmed by…
A Bill proposing radical changes to India’s forest law came closer to becoming legislation on July 26, when it was…
The amendment to the Forest Conservation Act passed through the committee phase last week. It is likely to be tabled…
As global temperatures rise, trees in colder areas are benefiting from an extended growing season. A longer growing season results…
The onset of summer months means a bumper harvest of cashews in the Nayagarh district of Odisha. A cash crop,…
Certain categories of forest land will no longer be legally protected, as proposed by the Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, 2023, that…
In 2007, 625.82 square kilometres of area inside the Tadoba reserve, in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur district, was declared as a critical…
On January 1 this year, when everyone was welcoming the new year, residents of Panthar village in Chaubattakhal tehsil (district…
Legislation passed earlier this year fundamentally restructures how India’s forests are governed, legal experts and activists have told The Third…
As fragmentation of forests, commercial plantations and uncertain weather conditions threaten the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve on the Western Ghats highlands…
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