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Small but precious: small forest patches act as islands and corridors of biodiversity

India urgently needs to streamline multi-billion rupees worth NTFP market

Spillover: encroachment into forests increases risk of contracting diseases from animals

Looking beyond protected areas to conserve species in tea-garden terrains

Forests of the islands: Andaman, Nicobar & Lakshadweep deal with development pressures

Shifting cultivation most extensive land use in West Garo Hills: study

Villagers in Bengal tap into palm sap to boost livelihoods

Faith and healing in the sacred groves of Madhya Pradesh

India considers bringing back the cheetah, even as lions and other species wait for conservation attention

Green cover of many Indian states rises but carbon stock declines

The futility of the teak forest in Kandhamal

Government makes re-grassing of mined-out areas mandatory

Most forest fires in India on account of human activity

Environment ministry releases standard procedure to deal with anthrax deaths in elephants

Forest-dependent communities of Odisha find LPG an unnecessary, unaffordable luxury

Tribal population of Jammu and Kashmir cries foul about non-implementation of Forest Rights Act

[Analysis] The world’s primates face extinction, fuelled by global consumer demands

The curious case of India’s missing forest policy

Two new termite species discovered from the Western Ghats

Is the proposed Pamba-Achankovil-Vaippar project an environmental disaster in making?