ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN THE WRM BULLETIN

Bangladesh

Burma 

Cambodia

India

• Lepchas arrested for opposing mega hydro project
• A human chain to defend Niyamgiri Hill from mining
• Forest dependent Vangujjars harassed by local government  
• Implementation of Tribal Forest Rights Act 2006
• Indigenous movement in Jharkhand challenge plans for industrial development that threatens to destroy Adivasi forests, farmlands and way of life
• World Bank forestry project goes from bad to worse
• The Forest Rights Act, a weapon of struggle
• Joint Parliamentary Committee Report - A Victory for the Struggling Forest People
• End of Forest Evictions? New Forest Bill
• Adivasis shot dead defending their land against takeover to Tata Steel
• India: A controversial draft bill deciding on forest-dwellers’ fate
• Local villagers rallied against polluter paper mill
• Adivasis shot for claiming their ancestral homeland
• 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
• Women more affected than men from deforestation
• Reports of Forest Department involvement in violence against the Adivasi people
• Indigenous peoples victims of "conservation" at Rajive Gandhi National Park
• An outdated approach to national parks and people
• "Gachha bina. (without trees) . . . jeevana nahi (no life)"
• Violence against local fisherfolk in India
• People versus nature or World Bank and government versus people?
• Mangroves under threat in India

  Indonesia

Laos

Philippines

Malaysia

Mekong region

• Mono-crop trees find more room over the borders in the Mekong region
• No more frontiers to cross: Life of Mekong people in the plantation era

Pakistan

Philippines

Sri Lanka

Thailand

Vietnam