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Why a Government Campaign to Plant More Trees Can’t Be a Good Idea by Default

Lou Del Bello 07/01/2020

The more successful plantation efforts in India have been...

Payal-Tadvi

Four Months After Payal Tadvi’s Death, Family Claims Her Belongings From Hospital

Sukanya Shantha 27/09/2019

“I was so proud that my child was studying...

Kerala floods, soil degradation, waste recycling, flood, drought, Kuttanad, landslides, quarrying, Madhav Gadgil, Kerala, Idukki, Wayanad, Adivasi,

Kerala’s Floods Remind Us of What Happens When We Abandon Sustainability

C.P. Rajendran 28/08/2019

The understanding of a river as a dynamic, nonlinear...

Forest Rights Act 2006, Adivasi, traditional forest dwellers, Supreme Court of India, forest produce, non-timber forest produce, first people, Jenu Kuruba, Soliga, tiger reserves, fortress conservation,

Forest Rights Act: Schoolchildren Understand Coexistence, Why Can’t SC?

Nithila Baskaran, Shiv Ganesh and Kashika Sharma 23/07/2019

On the eve of a Supreme Court hearing on a...

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Watch | ‘Tribals Have Rights to the Forest and Land, No One Can Remove us from Here’

Santoshi Markam 05/03/2019

Ground report by Santoshi Markam on the tribal demonstration...

Devi Lal

This Is How States Illegally Rejected Forest-Dwellers’ Land Claims

Nihar Gokhale 03/03/2019

Such government violations of the law are common not...

Forest Rights Act 2006, Supreme Court, tribal eviction, FRA, forest dwellers, timber, State Level Monitoring Committees, ordinance, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram,

Nearly 20 Lakh Tribals Vulnerable to Eviction Thanks to Supreme Court Order

Kabir Agarwal 22/02/2019

A lawyer said that the Supreme Court may have...