Industry

 Private rights

private sector participation in forestry projects will only be allowed in degraded and denuded forest lands. The recently approved Approach Paper to the Ninth Five Year Plan (1997-2002) says that the concept of privatisation of forest areas was not conducive in the Indian context and would therefore, not be encouraged in forest resource management.

Publication Date: 
27/02/1997
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forests, Forest Conservation, Private Sector, India
Biodiversity

 Blurred vision

Issues in which the economic interests of industrialised countries coincide with their ecological interests are acceptable in the UN; the rest is usually a sham

Publication Date: 
30/07/1996
Anil Agarwal
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Forest Conservation, Global Warming, Biodiversity
Forests

 Logging for growth

THE Swedes, known to have a scalpedearth policy for a long time, have now come up with a ecologically sound way of logging which is also profitable. Earlier, the woodcutters used to bare almost

Publication Date: 
30/10/1995
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forests, Forest Conservation, Sweden
Environment

 Greenhorn wisdom

Forest protection in a Midnapore village has created prosperity and local heroes

Publication Date: 
30/08/1995
Fabienne Tingry
Down to Earth
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Forest Conservation, Rural Habitat, Governance And Institutions
India

 Primary issue

A campaign to save the last surviving primary forest in Europe launched last September in Warsaw still continues. Biolowieza Forest, spread over an area of 1,500 sq km and lying in Poland and

Publication Date: 
29/06/1995
Down to Earth
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Forest Conservation, Governance And Institutions
Environment

 Family tree

IN AN appeal to save the planet, law students of the Delhi-based Centre for Environmental Law enacted Vasundhra (Earth), at their convocation ceremony. The play, directed by Amitava Dasgupta, was a

Publication Date: 
14/04/1995
Seema Kalra
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Environment, Tribals, Forest Conservation
India

 Teak gets a saviour

An Australian tree offers wood that can replace teak for furniture

Publication Date: 
27/02/1994
Down to Earth
Tags:
Tropical Forests, Forest Conservation, Wood, Science And Technology, Australia
India

 The spirit of the sanctuary

FIVE YEARS ago, the social forestry department in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra cleared several trees from a forest near Nandivse village to plant acacia trees. It did not know that the 4-ha patch was a sacred grove surrounding the temple of a powerful local deity, Kal Bhairon. The villagers, too, joined in because they were paid for the felling and planting.

Publication Date: 
30/01/1994
Amit Mitra, Sumanta Pal
Down to Earth
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Forests, Land Use, Forest Conservation, Deforestation, Traditional Knowledge, Sacred Groves, Religious Beliefs, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Conservation, Biodiversity Hotspots, Public Participation, India
India

 Chipko: Environmentalism of the poor

WHENEVER a dictionary of green terms is written, even if it is in English, it will contain at least one Hindi word. And that word is Chipko. The idea that people are prepared to hug trees to save

Publication Date: 
29/04/1993
Down to Earth
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Environment, Chipko Movement, Poverty, India, Forest Conservation

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