non-timber forest produce

A cheetah stands on a rock. Credit: Glavo/pixabay

Project Cheetah Begins to the Trumpets of Hope, and Wariness

Aathira Perinchery 17/09/2022

"We’ll just have to see" is a constant refrain...

Forest fire fire fighters Uttarakhand

Forest Survey Flagged More Fires This Year Than Last. What of Forest Dwellers?

Manish Chandra Mishra 02/06/2021

The survey system generated 385,000 fire alerts this year...

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How the Pandemic Has Affected India’s Forest-Dwelling Communities

Vikram Aditya and G. Ravikanth 06/05/2020

The National Tiger Conservation Authority has banned human movement...

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...

Eucalyptus trees in Munnar, Kerala. Credit: vijay_chennupati/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

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...