Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
Rapid and alarming deterioration in natural environment has become a matter of great concern for the entire globe. Exploding population, industrialization, man-made pollution, loss of forests, etc are responsible for this disastrous ecological scenario. Carbon dioxide emissions are at historic highs and rising. Bamboo is emerged as a way out …
March 29: World Bank representatives Mr Taki and Mr Pal Rayeem, the additional principal chief conservator of forest, Mr Ramesh Kalakatti, and the Kurnool chief conservator of forest Mr. E Narasimhulu, jointly inaugurated a paper manufacturing industry, established with World Bank and Andhra Pradesh state community forest management funds at …
Prosopis juliflora, a native of South to Central America, was introduced in India (Rajasthan) to combat desertification of Thar during early 20th century. Presently, this species is a most vigorously spreading plant species in the arid zone covering neutral alkaline and saline soil and has invaded most part of the …
Visakhapatnam, Feb. 9: The State Tribal Association members alleged here on Tuesday that the tribals were not getting the minimum procurement price, even from organisations like the Girijan Cooperative Corporation (GCC). Expressing concern over the issue, the association president and former MP, Mr M. Babu Rao, and vice-president and former …
Mendha a tribal village in Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra is showing the way to conserve forests and manage natural resources. Mendha is mainly inhabited by 480 Gond adivasis. Mendha village may be called country's first village to get a legal record of rights to manage its forest, water and forest produce …
Although the Naxalite (Maoist) influence in India stretches from the north of Bihar to the south of Andhra Pradesh, their impact on the political economy of the Indian countryside
This State of Forest Report 2009 is the eleventh edition in a biennial series published by the Forest Survey of India. Shows that India's green cover during the period 1997-2007 had grown by 3.13 million hectares. For the first time, India's forests have been mapped into 16 forest type groups …
Forests play an important role in enhancing livelihood requirements for rural community and also in maintaining ecological balance. Moreover, they provide many tangible and intangible goods and services viz., timber, fuelwood, Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs), and have recreation and aesthetic value. The conservation and proper management of NTFPs in their …
Joint Forest Management (JFM), the partnership between the Government Forest Department and the forest-fringe community (organized through the Forest Protection Committees (FPCs) towards forest protection had its inception in the state of West Bengal and is considered to be the most successful in this state. Bankura (North) Division, being part …
Examples from Cameroon and other countries highlight the capacity of non-wood forest products to provide employment, income and sustenance in times of crisis
This article analyses the working of Joint Forest Management and Community Forest Management in Orissa with a view to understand the incentive and disincentive mechanisms available in these institutions and how these influence the protection of forests and the livelihood of forest dwellers.
Farmers shifted from tiger reserve two years ago denied irrigation In 2007, 140 families were relocated from Botezari and Kolsa villages inside the Tadoba-Andhari tiger reserve in Maharashtra. The families, mostly subsistence farmers, were given a new address 70 km away
This paper analyses historical origins of forest rights deprivation and contemporary processes through which local people are seeking to restore their forest rights, taking the case of the Indian Forest Rights Act 2006 as an example to illustrate wider issues in historical institutional theory. The paper explores how the colonial …
Orissa is one of the most backward states of India with 47 per cent of the population living below poverty line. Forests constitute 37 per cent of the state's geographical area and are the major sources of income for the poor, particularly tribals. For most of the tribal households, forests …
