Forests

Projects and forests: Flawed clearances and complicit foresters

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.

Publication Date: 
08/10/2011
Economic and Political Weekly
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41
15-17
Tags:
Forests, CSE Study, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Forest Rights Act 2006, Environment Act 1986, Public Hearing, Forest Conservation, Forest Policy, Industry, Forest Encroachments, Land Use, India, Land Acquisition
Environment

Report of the working group on ecosystem resilience, biodiversity and sustainable livelihoods for the XII Five-Year Plan

India stands today at the cross-roads where it is becoming abundantly clear that not paucity of funds, but deficit in governance is the most significant challenge before the society.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2011
Planning Commission
Tags:
Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity, India, Biodiversity Conservation, People - Animal Conflicts, Invasive Alien Species, Forest Rights Act 2006, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Joint Forest Management (JFM), Community Forest Management (CFM), Ecotourism, Fisherfolk
Forests

Devolution of forest rights and sustainable forest management: a review of policies and programs in 16 Developing Countries

About 80 percent of the forested area of the developing world is held under public ownership. Many critics of state ownership argue that public stewardship of forests has been poor, pointing to high rates deforestation on land owned and administered by governments.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2011
U.S. Agency for International Development
Tags:
Forest Management, Forest Policy, Forest Rights Act 2006, India, Developing Countries, Asia, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Community Forest Management (CFM), Public Sector, Deforestation, Afforestation
Land

Chhattisgarh coal blocks a test case for acquiring tribal lands

This wedding season, anxious grooms from Parsa and Ghatburra, two villages in Chhattisgarh's Surguja district, were offered financial assistance from an unlikely source. Adani Mining Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of Adani Enterprises Ltd, was handing out loans to all those who could prove that the money would be spent on marriage arrangements.

Publication Date: 
19/09/2011
Aman Sethi
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Mineral - Based Industry, Land Acquisition, Tribals, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Coal, Compensation, Rajasthan, Forest Rights Act 2006, Ministry Of Rural Development, Land
Forests

Focus on women’s land rights

Right to land and forest resources still remains a distant dream for women across the country.

Publication Date: 
16/09/2011
Telegraph (Ranchi)
Tags:
Women, Land, Forests, Forest Rights Act 2006, Malkangiri (D), Forest Products, Tendu, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa (Odisha)
Forests

Forest Rights Act: Only 250 families covered

PURULIA, 14 SEPT: Despite the Centre having introduced the Forest Rights Act in 2006 to distribute forest land to the tribals, the district administration here is yet to do so for most of the Kheri

Publication Date: 
15/09/2011
Statesman (Kolkata)
Tags:
Forest Rights Act 2006, People, Purulia (D), Tribals
Environment

TOI jury meets to choose between good and good

TOI jury meets to choose between good and good

Publication Date: 
15/09/2011
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Forest Rights Act 2006, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Rural Development, Sunita Narain, Environment, NGO, India, People, Economy, CSE, Awards, Madhya Pradesh, Ministry Of Rural Development
Mining

Ban export of raw minerals, ores: Tribal Minister

Arguing that indiscriminate exploitation of mineral resources was leading to alienation amongst local tribal populations and furthering the cause of Naxalite groups, Minister for Tribal Affairs V K

Publication Date: 
15/09/2011
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Minerals, Mining, Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Exports, India, Forest Rights Act 2006, Bauxite, Vedanta Aluminium, POSCO, Iron And Steel Industry, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Compensation
Forests

Wealth of forests withheld

In partnership with forest departments, communities across India have raised forests worth millions of rupees in the hope of getting shares in timber revenue. Now that forests are ready for harvest, officials make excuses or give pittance. Read this Special report in Down To Earth.

Publication Date: 
15/09/2011
Sayantan Bera, Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava, Aparna Pallavi & et al
Down to Earth
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8
Tags:
Andhra Pradesh, Benefit Sharing, Forest Conservation, Forest Policy, Forest Resources, Forest Rights Act 2006, Forests, Gujarat, India, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Minor Forest Produce, West Bengal
Wildlife

Dhumal assures no infringing on locals’ right to forests

Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, who on Tuesday reached the state’s remotest area of Chhota Bengal in Kangar district — the area still lacks proper road links and other basic infrastructure facili

Publication Date: 
14/09/2011
Indian Express (Chandigarh)
Tags:
Forests, Wildlife, Sanctuaries, People, Wood, Public Hearing, Forest Rights Act 2006

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