New Delhi: A major portion of Delhi Ridge was notified as a reserved forest in 1994 after which no construction should have been allowed on the land.

The headquarters of the Tamil Nadu Biodiversity Conservation and Greening Project will be established at Nanmangalam Reserve Forest at a cost of Rs.8 crore, Forest Minister K. T.

The National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries of Kerala have become vulnerable to encroachment and poaching as the cash-strapped parks are being forced to cut the protection and conservation activiti

SRINAGAR: Around 50 timber smugglers on whom the State Government has slapped Public Safety Act (PSA) are absconding despite man hunt launched by the Jammu and Kashmir Police while around 40 timber

The Delhi High Court has given its approval to clear encroachment from the ‘reserved forest’ in the Ridge area, allowing the Delhi government to raze several structures in Neb Sarai.

The forest reserve and rare deodar trees on the McLeodganj-Dharamkot road are under a threat due to encroachments made for constructing illegal shops and rest houses.

Allegations of encroachment in forest lands by Jaintia Hills-based cement cos

A two-year ban on new licenses to clear peatlands and primary forests in Indonesia risks being undermined by the small area protected by the scheme and a host of exemptions, shows a review that cal

In the last three decades, 12 lakh ha of forests have been diverted for other purposes, including for regularising encroachments, irrigation, power and mining projects. Most diversion proposals get approved because the forest bureaucracy is complicit in promoting them and uses every underhand means to do so. A system designed to protect forests has thus become a major mechanism for their destruction. And the Ministry of Environment and Forests is reluctant to deal with these systemic flaws.

There are various stakeholders who are poising major threat to the sustainability of the forest resources. The categories of these stakeholders are the state and its agents, capitalist and private contractors and local communities. The present study focuses on the third types of stakeholders and their contest over the forest resources. The communities who are living in the vicinity of the forest are not homogenous, they are hetrogeneous, and their heterogeneity is reflected through caste background, power, ownership of land and ideology.

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