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Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar. Credit: PTI

India’s Forests, and Their Peoples, Are Caught Between Two Ministries

Why India’s Forest Rights Act Is the Most Viable Forest Conservation Law

Tendu leaves from the East Indian ebony tree are a commonly collected non-timber forest product in India. The leaves are wrapped around tobacco to make local Indian cigarettes. Credit: Subhodkiran via Wikimedia Commons.

India’s COVID Recovery Plan for Indigenous Groups Is Further Marginalising Them

The Adivasi Struggle Against Environmental Injustice

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Why Is the Government Afraid of Implementing the Forest Rights Act?

Don’t Understand CPWD’s U-Turn on Wood Use? Try Modi Govt’s Climate Doublespeak.

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As TN Govt Blitzes New Expressway Plan, Farmers See Pervasive Irregularities