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The 2019 State of Forests Report Tells a Distorted Story of India’s Trees

Kanchi Kohli and Manju Menon 07/01/2020

The government in its usual style painted the very...

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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...

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Government Withdraws Controversial Amendments to Forest Rights Act

The Wire Staff 16/11/2019

The decision comes just a few weeks before the Jharkhand...

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J&K: 97 Forest-Land Projects Cleared in 2018, 125 Cleared Since August 2019

Ishan Kukreti 22/10/2019

In its last meeting alone – before the clearance...

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NDA’s Draft Forest Law Is More Draconian Than What the British Left Us With

M. Sridhar Acharyulu 02/07/2019

The draft Bill gives more power and impunity to...

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What Does a Second NDA Term Entail for India’s Environmental Policies?

Mayank Aggarwal 27/05/2019

In the last five years, the NDA government introduced...

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When We Speak of Human-Wildlife Conflicts, Who Are the Humans?

Nithila Baskaran, Shiv Ganesh and Kashika Sharma 25/04/2019

It would do all of us concerned about the...