Empower Communities to Fix Forest Governance
Gautam Aredath, Sharachchandra Lele The Hindustan Times | September 5, 2024 The Forest Rights Act 2006 (FRA), by recognising the rights of forest-dwelling communities to both access and manage their customary forests, offers a bottom-up vision of forest governance. Eighteen years on, progress in recognising these rights has no doubt been tardy. Only three states […]
Amendments in the Forest Conservation Act Enable Community-led Recognition of Forests
Gautam Aredath Mongabay | November 23, 2023 The 2023 amendments to the Forest (Conservation) Act exclude the category of ‘deemed forests’ which was an important safeguard for large swathes of forest and forest-like ecosystems. However, the amendments may hold the key to an alternative – that of community-led recording of forests – because they recognise […]
