Forests

 Earth quake

Free cheers to the Forest Rights Act Even as 2007 turned to 2008, an incident occurred at village Khorashkhuli, at the edge of the Chandra forest range in West Bengal

Publication Date: 
14/01/2009
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forests, Forest Management, Forest Policy, Forest Conservation, Forest Rights Act 2006, Forest Products, Tribals, Benefit Sharing, India

 Songs of leaves and rain

Documentary >> An Ode to Marang Buru

Publication Date: 
14/01/2009
Radhika Panigrahi
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forests, Forest Management, Forest Conservation, Tribals, Traditional Knowledge, Sacred Groves, Orissa (Odisha)
Forests

Award for greening hill sides

Staff Correspondent

DEHRA DUN: The 127 Infantry Battalion (TA) Ecological here popularly known as the Eco Task Force has bagged the prestigious BNHS Green Governance Award 2008 for exemplary work of restoration, conservation and plantation at Aglar Valley and Mussoorie.

Publication Date: 
12/01/2009
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Ecology, Forest Conservation, Awards, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Dehradun (D)
Forests

Why is Powai not forest land?

Publication Date: 
01/01/2009
Daily News Analysis (Mumbai)
Tags:
Land, Forest Conservation, Maharashtra, Mumbai
Forests

Entrust forest conservation to tribals

BHUBANESWAR: Admitting that Orissa still remains backward in the national education scenario, Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh Wednesday said at least 15 or 16 skill-based polytechnics would come to the State out of 1,000 planned for the entire country to enhance

Publication Date: 
01/01/2009
New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Forest Conservation, Tribals, Orissa (Odisha)
Environment

The Baranaja system

Jardhargaon is a village at a height of 1500 metres situated in the hilly district of Tehri Garhwal in the state of Uttarakhand in North India. Jardhargaon came under the influence of Chipko Movement through the active involvement of one of its residents, Vijay Jardhari. In 1980 a Van Suraksha Samiti or VSS (Forest Protection Committee) was set up by local people.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2009
People in Conservation
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Tags:
Environment, Organic Farming, Seeds, Forest Conservation, Traditional Knowledge, Public Participation, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Tehri Garhwal, Sustainable Development, Agriculture
Forests

A new climate for forests: GEF action on sustainable forest management

A review report on GEF

Publication Date: 
31/12/2008
GEF
Tags:
Ecosystems, Forests, Forest Management, Forest Conservation, Deforestation, Climate Change, Green House Gases, Developing Countries

 An axe that went awry

A legislation that has deterred people from planting trees In May this year, this magazine ran a story about a person in Orissa who was hard put to cut down trees in his patch of land. He faced bureaucratic hurdles galore. There are many like him in the country. A lot of their problems can be blamed on tree preservation acts in various states of the country. The origins of these

Publication Date: 
30/12/2008
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forests, Forest Policy, Forest Conservation, Trees, Legislation, Supreme Court, India, Karnataka

 People do not grow what they cannot use

Preservation laws have made trees a problem for people STATE monopolies are not exclusive to modern times. Mining was the preserve of the state in ancient and medieval times. The Mughal state exercised an iron hand over opium production and trade. Once the Mughal empire declined, satraps asserted their independence by establishing monopolies over various commodities including tobacco and

Publication Date: 
30/12/2008
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forests, Forest Policy, Forest Conservation, Trees, Supreme Court, India
Forests

Back to forest, villagers restore the green

Thousands of residents from nine villages in the Shahpur forest division are reaping the fruits of their hard work and dedication of over a decade in restoring greenery on 5,000 hectares of barren land.

Publication Date: 
25/12/2008
Daily News Analysis (Mumbai)
Tags:
Forests, Forest Conservation, Maharashtra, Mumbai

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