Outputs
Newspaper Articles
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We need to lose our elitist perspective on Forest Rights A response to conservationists misinformed critique of the FRA -
India’s Forest Surveys Conceal a Deep Institutional Failure Forest Survey of India’s assessment of tree cover not only reveals. -
Carrying forward learnings on CFRR implementation and management to greater Bastar region In any action research project, how does one balance the need to improve the quality of on-ground interventions with the need to scale-up these interventions to wider geographies? -
Newsletter: Community Forest Resource Rights in Central India The need for decentralizing and democratizing forest governance has been recognized in international forestry circles for quite some time. India has been at the forefront of such thinking, right from the days of the Chipko Andolan in the 1970s. -
Training and Support for Community Forest Rights in Bastar, Chhattisgarh ATREE’s CFR team is training a team of 18 FRA Coordinators chosen from Bastar District to work with Gram Sabhas for claim-making and for developing CFR management plans. -
Trainings on WebGIS for Claiming CFR Rights in Bastar District How do we as researchers help in the implementation of a progressive but complex piece of nature resource legislation? The implementation of the Forest Rights Act of 2006, especially its community rights provisions, has raised this question for us repeatedly. -
Chhattisgarh CFR Potential Atlas Date: 15th November, 2024 -
Empower communities to fix forest governance Tardy devolution of rights under FRA and issues undermining gram sabhas’ capabilities to exercise these rights wherever recognised need to be addressed -
An uphill struggle to grow the Forest Rights Act Political opportunism, forester resistance and bureaucratic apathy have affectedthe Act which seeks to create a more democratic structure of forest governance -
Fading Green Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill is rich in rhetoric, but dilutes regulations to protect forest cover -
Never-ending injustice: Forest Villages of Madhya Pradesh The article describes the plight of the Adivasis in Forest Villages of Madhya Pradesh -
Community Forest Resource rights can make villages in Chhattisgarh ‘Atmanirbhar’ (Hindi) Article talks about the potential benefits of improved implementation of CFRRs in Chhattisgarh -
Smoke in the woods The draft Forest Policy re-emphasises production forestry, raising many ecological and social concerns -
Mapping the potential of Community Forest Resource Rights in central India The article is based on ATREE's work on methodologies to estimate the potential area that could come under CFR rights and the locations of villages with CFR potential in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, and Maharashtra. -
Conflict or coexistence with wildlife? (Marathi) The article talks about the need to study people-wildlife coexistence before notifying critical wildlife habitats -
Myth of the Pristine Forests The article talks about the need to study people-wildlife coexistence before notifying critical wildlife habitats -
The fragile rights of forest dwellers (marathi) Article draws attention to plight of Adivasis in Maharashtra and Karnataka -
Forgotten histories or deliberate ignorance? Article describes the nuances of historical injustices against Adivasis in Karnataka
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There’s little evidence to show FRA is leading to large-scale deforestation Conservationists must demand sincere implementation of the Forest Rights Act instead of blindly opposing it -
Forest policy: state control, privatization or decentralization A commentary on proposed changes to the Indian Forest Act 1927 -
Forest Rights, Forest Dwellers and Conservation Organisations The Marathi article talks about the injustices in implementation of the FRA