Indian forest and wood certification scheme
The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has launched the Indian Forest & Wood Certification Scheme. This national forest certification scheme offers voluntary third-party certification
Forest Management
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Saga of two villages
DTE tracks the developments in Sukhomajri which became a model of self-reliant development in the 1980s due to successful management of ecological wealth by HRMS. But the situation has changed now. The forest department has hijacked the forest created by the villagers, while control of water is going into private hands.
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Rolling on
Bunga took the sukhomajri story forward The first village to follow Sukhomajri's development model was Bunga, just 30 km away in Haryana's Panchkula district (see timeline: Divergent trajectories).
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Pricing forests: Net present value assessed
Committee submits report on net present value
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Now what?
Government must facilitate, not control The experiences of Sukhomajri and Bunga have a lesson: given the right conditions, external and internal, villages can be self-sustaining. But their inherent
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IN COURT
Oil lease sale blocked: In a preliminary ruling, a US federal court has recently blocked the US administration's plan to allow oil companies, access to the sensitive wetlands near the vast Teshekpuk
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US steps up efforts to protect forests; bars development projects
The us federal district court of northern California upheld the
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Forest commission report on forest rights bill validates government's stand
Forest commission fails to innovate
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Of forests and wealth
The Supreme Court has sug gested that the forested states, which lose revenue because of the ban on felling of trees should be compensated for keeping their forests intact. Protection of the
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Madhu Sarin
Madhu Sarin is the President of Vasundhara’s Executive Committee (EC). Since the early 1980s, she has worked on rural development planning, participatory and sustainable forest management, and gender
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Tarun Bharat Sangh (TBS)
Tarun Bharat Sangh (TBS), a non government organization starts to bring people together on the issues of management of forests and water resources.Water security, Conservation of forests and wildlife are