The World Bank and other agencies funding forestry projects in India are insisting on a more effective forest management strategy

The environment ministry is updating the Indian Forest Act, but getting all the states to agree to it may prove to be tricky.

By asserting the sovereignty of the right to control their tropical forests, more than 40 developing countries are gearing up to counter the North's attempts to regulate deforestation

The Delhi Declaration on forest management, conservation and sustainable development, adopted at the first ministerial conference of the forestry forum of developing countries, calls upon the international community to:

Various international fora and mechanisms have been formed to check deforestation, but tropical forest countries have always been wary of them, fearing interference by the North

The Uttar Pradesh government's decision to lift the ban on tree felling in the Garhwal Himalaya has brought on it the wrath of both the Central government and environmentalists