The local communities have done a good job in regenerating degraded forest lands

Will Uttarakhand, Chattisgarh and Jharkhand be anything more than a few new stones?

Another disincentive to sound forest management for Indians

Whatever the outcome of the hostages crisis in Karnataka, stupid sandalwood protection laws will keep creating smugglers out of India's exploited poor people

India's forests have been a site of conflict for centuries. But it is only over the last decade that their history has become the subject of serious enquiry. The first wave of work focussed on the