Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Community participation emerged as the defining principle of forest policies all over the world in the closing decades of the last century. In India, this came about after the Indian forest policies went through different stages from largely commercial-centric to a community-oriented approach. The access to forests and participation in …
Stage demonstration in front of Krishnagiri CollectorateCommunist Party of India (Marxist Leninist) stage a demonstration demanding the implementation of Forest Act in front of the Krishnagiri Collectorate on Monday.
The ministry of environment and forests has set up a Tiger Conservation Fund to benefit local communities living in the forest reserves. A fund of Rs 900 crores will be transferred yearly to states in which the 39 tiger reserves are located to be used for livelihood activities.
This study of the implementation of the Forest Rights Act 2006 in the Western Ghats of Kerala identifies the main constraints to the working of the legislation. Community rights and conservation provisions seem to be ignored. The paper also highlights the importance of integrating the implementation of the fra with …
FOUR months pregnant Lalita Devi coiled herself to escape the blows of heavy sticks. She was bewildered why each blow was directed at her belly. Men in khaki were ruthless till she fell unconscious. After five hours she found herself outside the Kone police station. “I was lying in a …
Though 390 families leading their lives in Kudremukh National Park limits are ready to vacate their land and leave, they allege that Government has not yet come up with any alternative facilities to rehabilitate them. A plantation within Kudremukh National Park. Photo/Ravi KelangadiThe organisations fighting for justice say that the …
NEW DELHI: The government has granted Rs. 25 crore for relocating 181 Gujjar families from the core regions of the Corbett Tiger Reserve. To avoid conflicts Over a period of time, a total of 400 families would be relocated to avoid man-animal conflicts in the reserve, a release by the …
Ananya Dutta West Bengal Government offers two new packages KOLKATA: The West Bengal Government announced a rehabilitation package for relocation of villagers living within the core forest area of the Buxa Tiger Reserve here on Tuesday.
Ahmedabad: The move to shift 100 Maldharis families outside the Gir sanctuary has again raised a debate on if the move was in the interest of the lion population. Local experts feel that shifting the Maldharis would indirectly affect the feeding pattern the lion, forcing them to move out of …
The government will demarcate 25,000 acres of land in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in the next three months. This would help prevent further encroachment and identify the dwellers staying on forest or private land, the government said.
Approaching the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, where most of the world's approximately 3000 surviving one-horned rhinos are found, one can see ramshackle structures on both sides of the road presenting an ugly sight in a verdant green canvas. They are mostly outside the core area of the world heritage …
A tribal village inside the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra has decided to sue forest authorities for mining sand and gravel from their community-owned (nistaar) land. On January 26, the villagers of Kolsa held a gram sabha meeting where they passed a resolution to this effect. This was after …
The Integrated Tribal Development Project department has decided to distribute title deeds to forest dwellers under Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 by September. Speaking to Deccan Herald, ITDP Co-ordinator Lakshman J Ganti said about 2,262 forest dwellers have filed their claim for …
South Korean steel giant Posco’s faces another hurdle in Orissa even though it has invited bids from contractors and vendors for its proposed Rs 54,000 crore steel project. The Union environment ministry on January 8 wrote to the state government that the project can go ahead only with the consent …
Sankar Ray Deforestation in the name of development has shrunk their lives and pushed them ever closer to the margins It is ironic that the home minister takes such good care of predatory corporate interests through Operation Green Hunt, which strikes at poverty-stricken forest villagers on the pretext of countering …
THRISSUR: Thrissur District and Sessions Judge and District Legal Services Authority chairman B Kemal Pasha on Wednesday visited and held hearing at the Anapantham Tribal Colony in Vellikulangara forest range in the district. The hearing was following a directive of the High Court consequent on a writ petition filed by …
The Goa Forest Department today said that D Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary and the adjoining mangrove areas at Chorao have been declared as critical Wildlife Habitat for the purpose of scheduled tribe and other traditional forest dwellers Act, 2006. As per the Act, the Forest Department has organised a public …
N. Selvaraj met people on Tuesday assuring protection to their dwelling place, activities THENI: Establishment of Periyar Elephant sanctuary on Megamalai will not affect tribal people at 50 villages including Thummagundu, Arasarai, Valiparai in Kadamalaigundu union on Varushanadu hill. These villages do not come under the sanctuary area, said the …
This paper explores the policy need and legal case for including social safeguards in a post-2012 agreement on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD). One serious charge laid against so called 'market-based' approaches to REDD is the potential for forest dwelling communities to be dispossessed from their land …
