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Forests

In Maharashtra’s Sindhudurg, a group of women is protecting mangroves through ecotourism

Sneha Pillai
· Nov 20, 2020 · 09:30 pm
Watch: Here’s how the WWF is planning to regenerate Australian bushland destroyed by wildfires

Scroll Staff
· Oct 20, 2020 · 02:30 pm
Eco India, Episode 83: With modern society becoming more urbanised, what is the future of forests?

Scroll Staff
· Sep 26, 2020 · 03:25 pm
The national policy that governs India’s forests has not been updated since 1988

Mayank Aggarwal
· Jan 11, 2020 · 08:30 pm
How India dealt with forest diversion, water shortage and waste management in 2019

Bhasker Tripathi, IndiaSpend.com
· Dec 31, 2019 · 01:30 pm
Frequent wildfires in the Arctic and the far North are worsening climate change

Nancy Fresco, The Conversation
· Aug 16, 2019 · 11:30 pm
Does the National Capital Region need another airport, even if it comes at great ecological cost?

Kanchan Srivastava
· Aug 07, 2019 · 08:30 pm
Five reasons why claims by forest dwellers for their land are low – and rejections are high

M Rajshekhar
· Feb 25, 2019 · 09:00 am
Centre’s weak legal defence of forest act means ten lakh families could be evicted, say activists

M Rajshekhar Sruthisagar Yamunan
· Feb 21, 2019 · 06:14 pm
Supreme Court orders eviction of more than 10 lakh Adivasi and forest-dwelling families

Scroll Staff
· Feb 20, 2019 · 08:51 pm
In Kashmir, there is another conflict around human settlements – and it involves wild animals

Safwat Zargar
· Jan 27, 2019 · 07:30 am
Netwinged insects: Invisible caretakers of India’s forests, but little is known about them

Geetha Iyer
· Sep 18, 2018 · 09:30 pm
Armed with slingshots, hot air balloons and paragliders, Kenyans are replanting vanishing forests

Dominic Kirui, Thomson Reuters Foundation News
· Sep 14, 2018 · 10:30 pm
Watch: Stray dog scares off leopard in Rajasthan’s Jhalana reserve just by barking

Scroll Staff
· Sep 07, 2018 · 05:00 pm
Conservation versus development: For India’s forest communities, nature is an insurance

Padmaparna Ghosh
· Aug 22, 2018 · 01:30 pm
A group of youngsters is turning a ‘sacred grove’ in Western Ghats into a biodiversity-rich zone

Nivedita Khandekar
· Jul 31, 2018 · 08:30 pm
‘It helps fill the void in your heart’: How access to nature improves well-being

Susanne Vetter Michelle Cocks
· Jul 30, 2018 · 11:30 pm
Women are the guardians of the forest. So why does India ignore them in its policies?

Purabi Bose
· Apr 23, 2018 · 11:30 am
Centre seeks to change forest policy to promote industrial plantations in natural forests

Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava
· Mar 22, 2018 · 09:00 am
Hold the celebrations: Marginal increase in India’s forest cover is masking massive deforestation

Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava
· Feb 15, 2018 · 06:30 am