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Centre Rejects Kerala’s Plea to Declare Wild Boar as Vermin Despite Crop Loss, Attacks
29 Apr 2022
Kerala disbursed around Rs 5 crore as compensation for crops loss against wild boar attacks in 2020-2021.
Martin Kuebler
Turning The Tide on Land Degradation
29 Apr 2022
Human activity has led to widespread land degradation and put our very survival as a species at risk. But by reversing course, we can tackle climate change and biodiversity loss — and make a better…
Seema Sharma
Adaptation and Finance Remain Global Key Challenges in Climate Change
19 Mar 2022
Finance is one of the biggest weak links and the capability and window to adapt, both of which come with their limitations.
Ayaskant Das
PM Invoked Gandhi, Centre Sought Dilution of Forest Act on Oct 2
11 Oct 2021
The environment ministry wants to exempt a range of infrastructure activities within the purview of the Forest Act.
Sumedha Pal
‘Ecotourism Will Reduce Adivasis to Workers on Their Own Land’
22 Mar 2021
The Centre is likely to propose a new set of guidelines for ecotourism projects which are aimed at opening up remote wildlife areas to tourism projects and will allow for the creation of non-…
Rashme Sehgal
Chamoli Disaster: Locals and Workers Face Horror of Development
08 Feb 2021
The flood Uttarakhand is a continuation of the disastrous projects pursued by the state and Centre against peoples’ wishes.
Prudhviraj Rupavath
Delhi High Court Seeks MoEFCC Response on Ambiguity in its Notification on EIA
26 Jun 2020
RTI responses reveal that Union Minister Javadekar deferred senior officials on extending deadline for receiving public comments on draft EIA 2020
Sreetama Gupta Bhaya
International Day of Forests: How India Can Reverse the Damage
21 Mar 2020
Our forests and the communities that protect them are delicately balanced. One cannot be seen in isolation from the other.
Sandipan Talukdar
How Old Are Earth’s Forests
21 Dec 2019
The kind of roots discovered in the Cairo trees indicate that they locked the carbon dioxide away which radically shifted the planet’s climate and paved the way to an atmosphere we have today.
Modi Govt’s Stand on FRA Eroding Tribal Rights
14 Sep 2019
Despite several state governments admitting that there were loopholes in the implementation of Forest Rights Act, the Central government has continued to maintain a stoic silence in the Supreme Court…