Wildlife

Saving the tiger needs putting people First

MAKING RESIDENTS OF TIGER FORESTS PARTNERS IN CONSERVATION IS KEY TO SECURING THE FUTURE OF THE BIG CAT
M D Madhusudan & Pavithra Sankaran

Since 2006, the environment ministry has demarcated and declared 39

Publication Date: 
04/03/2011
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Tiger, Wildlife, Sariska NP, Tiger Conservation, CSE, Project Tiger, India, Forest Rights Act 2006
Forests

Scheduled Tribes & Other Traditional Forest Dwellers( Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006: recommendations of the National Advisory Council

The National Advisory Council (NAC) recognizes that the Scheduled Tribes & Other Traditional Forest Dwellers( Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 was a landmark legislation that aimed to undo the historial injustice done to tribals and other forest dwellers by non-recognition of their forest rights.  However, it has not yet succeeded fully in achieving its objectives, because of so

Publication Date: 
01/03/2011
National Advisory Council
Tags:
Forest Rights Act 2006, Tribals, India, Forests, Forest Resources, Gram Sabhas
Forests

Implementing Forest Rights Act (FRA), 2006 : A seminar report and recommendations

A National seminar on the FRA was organised by the Council for Social Development on 26–27 April, 2010. Most of the participants reported that all of the key features of this legislation have been undermined by a combination of apathy and sabotage during the process of implementation.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2011
Social Change
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Forest Rights Act 2006, Gram Sabhas, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Forest Personnel, Forest Encroachments, Tribals, Maharashtra, Displacement, Remote Sensing, Tiger Reserves, India, Forests
Land

Sonia's NAC digs in on land acquisition

The Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council, which has been contesting the government

Publication Date: 
28/02/2011
Sreelatha Menon
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Land Acquisition, Food Security, Forest Rights Act 2006, Legislation, India, Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
Forests

Govt allows Kheri tribals to collect forest produce

In a major victory for tribals of Lakhimpur Kheri living in 46 villages in and around the Dudhwa forest range, the state government has allowed them to collect forest produce required for their survival.

Publication Date: 
19/02/2011
Times of India (Lucknow)
Tags:
Tribals, Minor Forest Produce, Dudhwa NP, Lucknow (D), Uttar Pradesh, Forest Rights Act 2006
Mining

Somersault on POSCO

Open letter to Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State for Environment and Forests, Government of India on POSCO.

Publication Date: 
19/02/2011
Anu Mandavilli, Murli Natarajan
Economic and Political Weekly
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Tags:
POSCO, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Orissa (Odisha), Forest Rights Act 2006, Iron And Steel Industry, Mining
Forests

Forest rights act under scrutiny

The Union government is reviewing its landmark initiative, the Forest Rights Act, four years after enacting it and two high-level groups submitted their assessment in the first week of January. But the environment ministry is in no mood to accept Forest Rights Act review finds out Down To Earth.

Publication Date: 
15/02/2011
Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Forests, Forest Rights Act 2006, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Tribals, Minor Forest Produce, Forest Resources, Forest Encroachments, Forest Villages
Wildlife

Tiger reserves, critical wildlife habitats and Forest Rights Act, 2006

Recently there have been some newspaper reports that the Ministry of Environment & Forests is flouting the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act in tiger reserves and in the critical wildlife habitats.  Such reports are false and misleading and as someone who has taken the lead in ensuring the proper and full implementation of FRA, 20

Publication Date: 
14/02/2011
Ministry of Environment and Forests
Tags:
Tiger Reserves, Wildlife, Forest Rights Act 2006, India
Wildlife

Revised guidelines for declaration of critical wildlife habitat

Revised guidelines for identification/notification of critical wildlife habitats as per the provisions of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006.

Publication Date: 
08/02/2011
Ministry of Environment and Forests
Tags:
Wildlife, Habitat, India, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Forest Rights Act 2006
Wildlife

Tharu tribe in core tiger zone of Dudhwa to get rightful claims

After three decades of sustained struggle with Forest officials, 340 families of the Tharu tribe of Surma village located in the core tiger habitat area of the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve are a happy lot. The state government has asked the Lakhimpur Kheri district administration to convert the village into a revenue one and give Tharus their rightful claims under the Forest Act of 2006.

Publication Date: 
08/02/2011
Pioneer (New Delhi)
Tags:
Lakhimpur Kheri, Tribals, Tiger, Wildlife, Dudhwa NP, Uttar Pradesh, Forest Rights Act 2006

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