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. …
Top forest officials and members of the National Forest Rights Act Committee are on a collision course after the panel submitted its report to the government and stated that the Act was not implemented in its true spirit. A war of words ensued after the panel, formed by the environment …
The Union government is reviewing its landmark initiative, the Forest Rights Act, four years after enacting it and two high-level groups submitted their assessment in the first week of January. But the environment ministry is in no mood to accept Forest Rights Act review finds out Down To Earth. The …
This paper considers the relationship between the emergence and development of state forestry institutions in forested landscapes of West Bengal and the chronic and acute poverty of citizens living there. At least 13% of West Bengal
Each tribal family will get up to 10 acres of land Revenue Minister to hand over documents to families in Kannampady settlement 128 tribal settlements in Idukki district KATTAPPANA: Minister for Revenue K.P. Rajendran will on Thursday hand over land documents, under the Forest Rights Act 2006, to 306 Adivasi …
THE forest departments of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat are forcibly evicting tribals from forestland. Around 50 huts of the Korku community in Madhya Pradesh were demolished on August 29. On July 30, forest guards assaulted tribals of the Kunbi community for cultivating in forestland in Dang district in Gujarat. The …
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 …
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.
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.
Once in the year 1998, in search of a village on the way to Panchmarhi for conducting the exposure visit for the international participants of an international training programme the village Khatpura was discovered by three IIFM Faculty. The village became a remarkable successful JFM village in Sehore Forest Division. …
Joint Forest Management in the village Barwani which comes under Timarni tehsil and Timarni development block. The village is a forest village under range Rehatgaon.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
