By Mongabay.com Residents of two villages in the Indian state of Goa have petitioned the environment ministry for their villages to be recognized as “eco-sensitive areas.” The residents want their ...

Residents of two villages in the Indian state of Goa have petitioned ... followed by orchards and forest on the slopes, and then the khazan lands, rivers at sea level,” Manoj Dutta Prabhugaonkar ...

Meanwhile, Brazil’s Fundação Nacional dos Povos Indígenas (National Foundation of Indigenous Peoples, or Funai) estimates ...

Haveri: The forest department initiated an extensive operation to eliminate eucalyptus plantations across 600 hectares, ...

As many as 100 villages located in the forested regions of Odisha are set to receive funds directly in their own bank accounts to carry out forest protection, management and convergence works in ...

and granted recognition of forest rights under the Act for villages in the Dodra Kwar area. The villages include Jakha, Kitwada, Jiskun, Dhandwari,... The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh ...

After the Maoist encounter in the Bijapur forest area in Chhattisgarh, security has been tightened, and combing operations have intensified in the Maoi ...