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In 2019, the BJP won most of the forest rights-sensitive, tribal-dominated seats. Experts claim that forest laws and policies have been weakened in the last five years

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modis Green Credit Programme (GCP), showcased at COP28, could potentially benefit businesses responsible for deforestation, according to environmental campaigners. The GCP allows privately owned tree plantations to generate tradeable credits for green actions, potentially leading to the large-scale privatisation of forested land and undermining legislation protecting forest rights.

One “grown” tree will amount to one Green Credit, as per the new rules. Four months after launching the Green Credit Program, the Union government on Monday notified the methodology for calculating green credits for tree plantation activity

New forests are coming up in areas traditionally used by locals for cultivation, for accessing forest produce, for grazing livestock and even burying the dead.

Pramila Pradhan, 51, embraced thengapalli, a form of forest stewardship, because of her mother-in-law, who took her along on forest patrols. Thenga means stick, and palli means turn or rotation. For decades, stick-wielding women have taken turns every day to patrol and safeguard the woodlands in Kodalpalli village in India’s Odisha state. But it was […]

Jharkhand led the country in making up for lost forests in the year 2022-23, but cases from two districts show that tree plantation is coming at the cost of those who were cultivating that land or using it for grazing their livestock. Their forest rights are now at odds with forest plantation

The government has directed all collectors to ensure that diversion of forest land should follow provisions of the new forest act. | Latest News India

The government has directed all collectors to ensure that diversion of forest land should follow provisions of the new forest act. | Latest News India

These rights once recognised by the government allows a tribe to assert their customary and traditional rights over the entire area they traditionally inhabited | Latest News India

Sidelining of women derail Forest Rights Act in Chhattisgarh