The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
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
The struggle to protect the rapidly vanishing tiger is getting murkier by the day. Up to 100,000 families are slated for displacement, ostensibly to secure India’s tiger habitats. Unfortunately, most of the relocation taking place violates the law and may end up creating more conflicts that cause the tiger’s decline.
The struggle to protect the rapidly vanishing tiger is getting murkier by the day. Up to 100,000 families are slated for displacement, ostensibly to secure India’s tiger habitats. Unfortunately, most of the relocation taking place violates the law and may end up creating more conflicts that cause the tiger’s decline. …
One of the eight Missions under India's National Action Plan on Climate Change, the revised National Mission for a Green India (GIM for short) professes responding to climate change by a combination of adaptation and mitigation measures, which would help: enhancing carbon sinks in sustainably managed forests and other ecosystems; …
New Delhi: After more than three weeks of dithering, the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) of the environment ministry on Thursday signed on the minutes recommending temporary withdrawal of forest clearance to the Rs 54,000 crore Posco project in Orissa for violation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA). The recommendations are …
THE Polavaram irrigation project in Andhra Pradesh could well run into trouble over nonimplementation of the Forest Rights Act. At least nine gram sabhas in Andhra Pradesh have sent written complaints challenging state government
Two tribal villages in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra—Mendha Lekha and Marda— savoured victory when they won community rights over their forest resources in August last year. The rights conferred under the Forest Rights Act of 2006 include the right to collect and sell minor forest produce (MFP). These include tendu …
A COMMITTEE set up by the government to investigate POSCO India’s compliance with the forest rights act (FRA) in its steel plant in Orissa’s Jagatsinghpur district has presented two divergent perceptions in its report. The committee, constituted by the Ministry of Environment and Forests to examine the company’s proposal for …
Forest people across India are being denied their legitimate right to collect and trade in minor forest produce. Down To Earth correspondents travelled to Jharkhand, Chhatisgarh, MP, AP, Maharashtra & Orrisa to unravel the conspiracy.
A new paper by Dr N C Saxena on how to improve production, access, and incomes from MFPs for forest dwellers. Whereas 70 per cent of India’s population lives in rural areas, for tribals this is as high as 90 percent. It is well established that most tribals live in …
With its forest panel still dithering over the minutes of a meeting held two weeks ago, and its experts on environmental clearances for ports requiring more time to study the issue, the Union Environment Ministry has managed to delay any decision on the fate of Posco's $12-billion steel project in …
This monograph by Dr Jyothis Sathyapalan and Dr Gopinath Reddy is an attempt to understand the implementation processes of the Forest Rights Act 2006 in Kerala. The study also tried to evaluate the scope and feasibility of taking up the implementation of community rights and conservation duties in an integrated …
The Government of India enacted The Forest Rights Act, 2006 (Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers - Recognition of Forest Rights – Act) to give forest dwelling scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers the opportunity to claim individual as well as community forest rights of forest land. The …
Down to Earth reports from Naxalite-affected districts of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand and expresses concern over an unwelcome change creeping into the programmes and policies of NGOs and other civil society groups working in the region. Finds that squeezed between the naxalites and the police, NGOs are abandoning community mobilisation. Squeezed …
Reports of the expert committee constituted by Minsitry of Environment and Forests to investigate into the proposal submitted by POSCO India Pvt. Limited for establishment of an Integrated Steel Plant and Captive Port in Jagatsinghpur District, Orissa. This includes report by Meena Gupta, the Chair of the Committee and a …
This is the executive summary of report of the committee constituted to investigate into the proposal submitted by POSCO India Pvt. Limited for establishment of an Integrated Steel Plant and Captive Port in Jagatsinghpur District, Orissa.
Majority report of the committee constituted to investigate into the proposal submitted by POSCO India Pvt. Limited for establishment of an Integrated Steel Plant and Captive Port in Jagatsinghpur District, Orissa.
Prafulla Das BHUBANESWAR: The Meena Gupta Committee is to submit its report on Monday to the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests on the Posco steel project, according to the sources in the Ministry. While the Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti activists are hopeful that the committee would give an adverse …
