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Low prices offered by the government pushes tendu leaf collectors to explore open market

Alok Prakash Putul 21 Jun 2022
Hundreds of tribals are now camping in the forest to save the HasdeoAranyaforest which is spread over 70,000 square kilometers in the northern part of Chhattisgarh. Photo by Alok Prakash Putul

In the midst of coal shortage reports, a coal mine extension is approved in pristine Hasdeo forests

Alok Prakash Putul 25 May 2022
Forest team patrolling with the help of captive elephants in Madhya Pradesh. Image by Satyendra Kumar Tiwari

Spirits are low this mahua season as fear and grief take over these MP villages

Manish Chandra Mishra 26 Apr 2022
Families displaced from Achanakmar Tiger Reserve left their pucca houses and built kutcha (non-permanent) houses. Photo by Alok Prakash Putul.

Two tiger reserves, two different stories of resettlement

Alok Prakash Putul, Translated by Abhishek Jha 18 Apr 2022
The forest near Jashipur in the buffer area of STR on fire. Photo by Pragati Prava.

Chhattisgarh forest fires continue while forest staff remain on strike

Alok Prakash Putul 11 Apr 2022
Korba accounts for about 16 percent of India’s total coal production. Photo by Mayank Aggarwal/Mongabay.

Repurposing land in Korba’s coal mines can support a just transition

Mayank Aggarwal 2 Mar 2022

Continued fluoride contamination of groundwater is a glaring public health issue in central India

Manish Kumar 28 Feb 2022

India’s climate mitigation potential in forests overestimated, finds study

Sahana Ghosh 16 Feb 2022

Gadchiroli’s new jumbo visitors could make the forests their permanent home

Saurabh Katkurwar 30 Nov 2021

Solar power helps farmers irrigate fields in water-scarce Bastar

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 15 Nov 2021

India to seek billion-dollar assistance from the World Bank for just transition programme

Mayank Aggarwal 3 Nov 2021

Yes, No or Maybe: Fate of Hasdeo Arand forest back in limbo

Mayank Aggarwal 23 Sep 2021
Indian elephant bull in musth in Bandipur National Park. Image by Yathin S Krishnappa/Wikimedia Commons

Excess paddy kept for elephants in Chhattisgarh may not have the intended impact

Alok Prakash Putul 22 Sep 2021

Iron ore mining in Chhattisgarh drives deforestation

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 1 Sep 2021
The project has generated livelihood opportunities for local communities. The daily wage rate being offered is Rs 306. Some 250 workers are now engaged and many have come from five km away. Photo by Abhishek Maitry

Durg forest division plans reforestation over 2,500 acres

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 26 Aug 2021

All three tiger reserves of Chhattisgarh now in Maoist territory

Alok Prakash Putul 17 Aug 2021

Mining-affected communities seek refuge in art to express rage, reason and reflection

Aritra Bhattacharya 13 Aug 2021

Can Odisha, Chhattisgarh move beyond conventional approaches to save Mahanadi?

Pragati Prava 9 Aug 2021

Chhattisgarh plans biofuel production from paddy

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 28 Jul 2021

Bees recorded feeding on sweat and tears of human beings

Roopak Goswami 16 Jul 2021