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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Mission control
Chief minister Digvijay Singh is responsible for making the Rajiv Gandhi mission a success
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Rebirth of the forest
A new approach by the government resulted in rapid regreening
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A Gujjar s tale
it was a plea from the heart, but the Minister's portfolio specified a different agenda. Saifuddin Soz, the minister for forests, was prepared to deal with pleas to save trees and wildlife. Face to
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Wolves feel the crunch
Alaska s predator control programmes undermine the region s ecological health
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Vanishing green
The US forest service has approved a new and controversial forest management plan
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Woods for women
Poor rural women in India need easy access to and control over forests
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Dark truths and lost woods
Forest management is neither geared to meet people's needs nor is it carried out with a view to protecting the pristine natural forests of India. Even the reports brought out by the government on the state of India's forests leave one lost in a maze of fi
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Fallacy in figure
During the 1980s the rate of destruction of natural forests was reduced as compared to the 1970s. Most of the deforestation took place in the forests of the dry deciduous zone
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Sap loss
In mid-1984, the National Remote Sensing Agency had published two sets of forest cover data, one for the period 1972-75 and another for the period 1980-82. This data shocked the nation because it
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The non accountables
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) had sent this analysis based on the data provided by the Forest Survey of India and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, to