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Time to Hold Powerful Forestry Agencies and Conservation Actors to Account

Prakash Kashwan and Manasi Karthik 07/03/2019

The FRA's provisions for collective forest rights provide a...

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Eviction of Tribals: Forced Displacement and Its Links With Poor Health

Sarojini Nadimpally, Deepa Venkatachalam and Adsa Fatima 28/02/2019

Forced displacement has been shown to increase vulnerability to...

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SC to Hear Centre’s Plea Seeking Withholding of Eviction of Tribals

The plea said that as the forest dwellers were...

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Chhattisgarh’s ‘No-Go Area’ for Coal Mining Faces the Prospect of Being Opened Up

Debayan Gupta and Bipasha Paul 05/10/2018

The Hasdeo Arand spans more than 1,70,000 hectares of...

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The ‘Other’ in the Forest Rights Act Has Been Ignored for Years

Asavari Raj Sharma 01/07/2018

Though non-tribal forest dwellers are recognised by the Act,...

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Odisha’s Niyamgiri Hills – and Its People – Are Still Under Threat

Valay Singh 23/04/2018

Vedanta’s alumina refinery in Lanjigarh village is creating water...

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National Forest Policy Draft 2018 Takes One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Sushant Agarwal 02/04/2018

This is not the first time the 1988 forests...