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8 results for “forest”

Environment
Forests in India: Cover, Conservation Law and Community Rights
Recorded forest area is not forest cover: ISFR 2023's numbers, the Forest (Conservation) Act 1980 and its contested 2023 amendment, compensatory afforestation and CAMPA, community rights, and what still burns India's forests.
1 October 2026 · 24 min read
Governance
Environmental governance in India: EIA, the NGT, CAMPA and forest clearances
The EIA regime and its July 2026 restructuring, the National Green Tribunal’s jurisdiction and landmark orders, CAMPA’s unspent thousands of crores, and the 2023 Forest Conservation amendment.
30 September 2026 · 18 min read
Geography
Where the World Keeps Its Wealth: The Geography of Natural Resources
Why iron ore sits in Australia and oil in the Gulf: the geological lottery behind the world's mines, wells, forests and fisheries, and what it means for India.
29 September 2026 · 25 min read
Environment
Laws for the Living World: CBD, the BD Act and Forest Amendments
From the Convention on Biological Diversity to the Biological Diversity Act and the contested 2023 forest law amendments: how India governs who uses the living world and who gets paid.
28 September 2026 · 43 min read
Geography
Green India: Forests, Mangroves and the Wildlife They Shelter
From evergreen rainforests to thorn scrub to alpine moss, India stacks every vegetation type inside one border. Forest types, mangroves, ISFR 2023 data and the conservation framework.
27 September 2026 · 23 min read
Indian Society
Tribes of India: the first peoples caught between forest and development
104 million Indians, 700+ groups, one constitutional shield, the story of tribal India, from PVTGs to the displacement-rehabilitation trap.
27 September 2026 · 41 min read
Social Justice
Scheduled Tribes in India: forest rights, PVTGs and tribal welfare
Who India's 10.45 crore tribals are, the constitutional framework of Schedules V and VI, the Forest Rights Act 2006, PVTGs and the welfare architecture that serves them.
27 September 2026 · 56 min read
Governance
The All-India Services: one service, many masters
Recruited by the Centre, posted in the states, recalled to Delhi: the IAS, IPS and Indian Forest Service sit at the fault line of Indian federalism. Article 312, the cadre system, central deputation and the Centre-state tussle.
27 September 2026 · 19 min read