The Lacandon forest, the land of the Mayans, is fast disappearing. Only about one third of the area is still intact. The forests may last only for 15 years if crop burning, forest fires, insufficient
Incredible but true: in the last 30 years rise in human population has been the same as in the 1,00,000 years prior to the mid-20th century. as a result, human encroachment on agricultural and
Barely a week after passing a constitutional amendment that empowered Zimbabwe to seize land owned by the whites without paying compensation, the government has done a volte face after renewed
THE 120-hectare (ha) Cubbon Park, the green lung of Bangalore city, has often been encroached upon. Now the J H Patel government has decided to denotify 12 ha of the park to build a residential
World Bank (wb) representatives recently asked the government of the state of Rondonia to check accusations of invasion of the indigenous area of the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau tribe and the Guajara-Mirim state
In India, out of a land area of 330 million ha, only cultivated. The remaining areas of forests, woodlands, grasslands, marshes, rivers, lakes and shorelines are common property resources (CPRs).
An Udaipur NGO has been summoned to court because a community hall it helped the residents of Vasu village set up allegedly encroaches on government land