Indian forest and wood certification scheme
The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has launched the Indian Forest & Wood Certification Scheme. This national forest certification scheme offers voluntary third-party certification
Forest Management
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Policy that works for forests and people
Forest issues often concern large amounts of money, long time frames, huge areas of land and diverse livelihoods. This report draws the main findings from a series of six country studies from Costa Rica, Ghana, India, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea and Zimbabwe and from a review of international policy initiatives.
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After Chipko: from environment to region in Uttaranchal
<p>Although the Chipko movement is practically non-existent in its region of origin it remains one of the most frequently deployed examples of an environmental and/or a women's movement in the South.
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no exemptions
The Supreme Court has stated that a forest corporation is not entitled to tax exemptions as it was a local autho rity. The court delivered the verdict in the case of UP Forest Corporation, which
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Deep in the Woods
When it comes to management of forests in the US, the timber industry and environmentalists have traditionally been at loggerheads. Whoever wins, the losers are generally the people from communities living near the forests. <a c>Urvashi Narain </a c> an
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Troubled history
Local communities have always been stuck in no man s land in the US
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Community efforts
In which the people of Quincy got their act together
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Has anything changed?
Quincy remains an exception. The old story continues at the national level
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When the old gods died
From a wooded upland Jhabua became an example of extreme ecological degradation. The story of its recovery is remarkable
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Crossing the rainbow
With the coming of the Rajiv Gandhi Mission on Watershed Development, a major change took place in the degraded wasteland that was Jhabua
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The angry giants
Soil conservation work came cheap in Jhabua, but a lot remains to be done