2008

• A Story of Non-Participatory Conservation in the Buxa Tiger Reserve
• Illegal aluminium refinery in Tribal lands in Orissa

2007

• Implementation of Tribal Forest Rights Act 2006
• A plan for the takeover of forest land by industry
• Indigenous movement in Jharkhand challenge plans for industrial development that threatens to destroy Adivasi forests, farmlands and way of life
• The Forest Rights Act, a weapon of struggle
• World Bank forestry project goes from bad to worse

2006

• Peasants resist take-over of land by the ‘left’ Government in West Bengal
• Carbon forestry in the pipeline
• Different plantation species, same problems
• Will new National Forest Policy open the door to GM trees?
• Joint Parliamentary Committee Report - A Victory for the Struggling Forest People
• End of Forest Evictions? New Forest Bill
• Creating ‘manageable’ forests: Plantations and Plantation Workers in India
• Adivasis shot dead defending their land against takeover to Tata Steel

2005

• Adivasis and forest management
• Legal and illegal logging behind deforestation in India
• Women’s knowledge and power in forest societies
• A controversial draft bill deciding on forest-dwellers’ fate
• The Great “Community Forest Management” Swindle In India – critical evaluation of an ongoing World bank-financed project in Andhra Pradesh

2004

• Settling Down and Out; the sedentarisation of the Malapantaram in Kerala
• Wave of poaching and exploitation hits isolated tribes
• Bangladesh: Sundarban mangrove forests menaced by oil and gas extraction by India
• Welcome to Mowgli's Land
• Oppose World Bank and Save Forests
• Women’s response to devastating mining
• Role and Status of Women in Land Use Control and Management

2003

• Local villagers rallied against polluter paper mill
• Adivasis shot for claiming their ancestral homeland
• The World Bank's "Revised Forest Strategy" under challenge
• Rainwater harvesters and forest protectors of the Aravalli hills

2002

• The need for community control over natural resources
• Indigenous Peoples and Joint Forest Management
• Supreme Court orders closure of a road which threatened the Jarawa's survival
• Road brings death for isolated tribe

2001

• Mining ancestral lands for corporate profits
• Gender bias and disempowerment in World Bank-funded forestry projects
• Women more affected than men from deforestation
• Reports of Forest Department involvement in violence against the Adivasi people
• The Dandeli dam project scandal

2000

• Mining and plantations put National Park at risk
• Indigenous peoples victims of "conservation" at Rajive Gandhi National Park
• Alleviating poverty through participatory development
• An outdated approach to national parks and people

1999

• "Gachha bina. (without trees) . . . jeevana nahi (no life)"
• Have Indian foresters learned nothing?
• Violence against local fisherfolk in India
• People versus nature or World Bank and government versus people?

1997

• Mangroves under threat in India
• Wildlife conservation and people's rights

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

• BUXA TIGER RESERVE: THE RELOCATION STORY

• Appeal to protect Niyamgiri and the Dongria Kondh Adivasis from bauxite mining by Sterlite-Vedanta - Friends of the Earth Finland - 24 January, 2008

• Ecologisme et Féminisme des pauvres : Trois mouvements socio-écologiques dans le Sud - Sandra VEUTHEY, Université de Genève, Mars 2006 (only in French)

• Women's indigenous knowledge of forest management in Orissa (India),
  Smita Mishra

• World Bank Plans for Forestry Project in Jharkhand State (India) Continue to Cause Controversy
  article compiled by Tom Griffiths and Sanjay Bosu Mullick

• Forest Alert India: Recent Information on World Bank Plans in Madhya Pradesh,
  Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh
  briefing compiled by the Forest Peoples Programme , September 2004

• Civil Society Organisations Reject World Bank Country Assistance Strategy: Severely Condemn Bank’s Propriety in Influencing Government of India’s Policy
  PRESS RELEASE - August 10, 2004

• Reclaiming the Forests? People's Participation in Forest Management, East India
  by Jo Lawbuary

• Pine culture has transformed the Himalayan landscape with disastrous
  affect on its fragile ecology.
  Down to Earth - Vol 10,  No 18  Feburary 15,  2002 

• Disempowerment in the name of 'participatory' forestry? - Village forests joint management in Uttarakhand.
  by Madhu Sarin. Forests, Trees and People Newsletter No. 44, April 2001. Pp. 26-35.

• Underlying Causes of Deforestation and Forest Degradation: Case studies of Andaman Island, Uttara Kannada and Gadchiroli – Chandrapur

• 2008
  - Action Alert Organizations in India are requesting support to women brutally attacked by the policy for defending their rights - October / November 2008

• 2003
  - Letter to Worldbank regarding the current situation in the Narmada valley

• 2002
  - Oppose increase in height of Sardar Sarovar dam
  - Road brings death for isolated tribe

• 2001
  - Narmada Valley and the fight against the Man Dam Project (NVDP)

• 2000
  - Sign-on Letter to World Bank on Sardar Sarovar Project
  - Brutal atrocities unleashed at tribals during dislocation process at Nagarhole National Park by Forest Department

• 1999
  - Violence against local fisherfolk

LINKS

Friends of River Narmada
http://www.narmada.org/

Sustainable Development Networking Programme
http://sdnp.delhi.nic.in/ 

Corporate Watch - India
http://www.corpwatchindia.org/

Centre for Science and Environment
http://www.cseindia.org/

Indian Environment Online
http://indianenvironmentonline.net

Mines, minerals & People
http://www.mmpindia.org/

Navdanya/RFSTE
http://www.navdanya.org