Forests
A forest is an area of land dominated by trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing and ecological function. The Food and Agriculture Organization defines a forest as land spanning more than 0.5 hectares with trees higher than 5 meters and a canopy cover of more than 10 percent, or trees able to reach these thresholds in situ. It does not include land that is predominantly under agricultural or urban land use. Using this definition FRA 2020 found that forests covered 4.06 billion hectares …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 29 July 2024 English
This report is written by Suhas Chakma of Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program (IPLP), University of Arizona. Published in July 2024, the report examines the conflict between tiger conservation …
August 2022, https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/forests/future- in-forest-how-eviction-of-villagers-fr … who were relocated in 2012, returned to the forests and occupied the place for 36 hours, demanding … without adequate compensation from their ancestral forests after these were declared as buffer zones for … Ibid 95. Struggles for the right to live in forests declared protected areas in India, All India Forum … uy/sites/default/files/2022-03/Struggles-to- live-in-forests-Protected-Areas-India_spread.pdf21 eviction …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 26 July 2024 English
A young Bettakurumba from Bokkapuram, a village nestled in the Nilgiris forests, writes about his mother …
Bokkapuram, a village nestled in the Nilgiris forests, writes about his mother …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 7 June 2024 English
The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) has conducted Household Consumption Expenditure surveys (HCES) regularly since its inception in 1950. Data on household consumption was collected annually from 1950–51 to 1973-74. …
collected free, for example, from forests, imputed at prevailing local retail prices. “Expenditure” …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 15 April 2024
India’s forests are no longer inviolate if they lie near borders. Consider the example of the North East of India that shares international borders with multiple countries. The ‘unclassed forests’ of North …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 8 April 2024 English
Vulnerability of India’s Forests to Fires …
Vulnerability of India’s Forests to Fires …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 7 April 2024 English
Suresh Dhurve tells stories through his paintings…of forests, trees and animals and people, and their crucial dependence on each other. Gond artists like him who live in Bhopal, say they have been left …
Dhurve tells stories through his paintings…of forests, trees and animals and people, and their crucial …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 19 March 2024 English
IQAir, a Switzerland-based company working on air quality technology, released this report on March 19, 2024. It gives an overview of population weighted air quality data for the year 2023 …
Canada’s wildfire season, about 4% of the country’s forests were burned. The entire Northwest Territories …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 19 March 2024 English
Kisan Mazdoor Commission (KMC), an initiative by the Nation for Farmers, is a collaboration of activists and organisations focussing on current challenges faced by primary producers, artisans and rural workers …
custodians of agro-biodiversity and biodiversity of forests, lakes and oceans and ecological sustainability; … control of participation in the governance of forests. That would include the activities related to agriculture … ponds, wetlands, grasslands, local grazing lands, forests, rivers, ocean in a healthy way; f. Create laws …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 5 March 2024 English
The State of the World’s Forests 2022 …
The State of the World’s Forests 2022 …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 28 November 2023 English
This report published on November 28, 2023, by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and magazine Down to Earth (DTE), sheds light on extreme weather patterns in India. It …
the one hand and investing in green spaces and forests so that these sponges of water can be revitalised …
