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Unbent Indian Government Trying To Amend the Indian Forest Act 1927 Again

Lessons for Sustainability: Indigenous People and Forests Go Hand in Hand

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

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Why It’s Bad News That the NCST Wants to Rename the Indian Forest Service

Mahua (left) and a variety of medicinal rice. Credit (both): Pankaj Oudhia/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

India Has Recognised Forest Rights but Intervention Is Still Necessary