The health of the world's forests — and their capacity to lock away carbon — could be jeopardized by logging if the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) definition of a ...

The FAO lumps non-oil palm tree plantations into its definition of forest cover when conducting its Global Forest Resource Assessments. The assessments analyze land cover change in countries around ...

In the second in our series examining REDD we report how ambiguous forest definitions are putting the future success of forest protection schemes in doubt and allowing logging companies to destroy ...

The environment and forest ministry is set to increase the ambit of its control over the country's land. NEW DELHI: The environment and forest ministry is set to increase the ambit of its control over ...

Haryana has taken the extraordinary step of defining what constitutes a “dictionary meaning” of forest, 18 months after the Supreme Court ordered states to identify forests using that very phrase’s ...

Since 1948 the UN's Food and Agriculture has been clinging to an outmoded definition of 'forests' that includes industrial wood plantations, writes WRM in this Open Letter for delivery to the FAO ...

A SC interim order provides an opportunity to revisit the definition to balance India’s economic interests and infrastructure needs with sustainable goals A buzz has erupted across the country once ...

Gurgaon: Most of the Aravalis that aren't already protected in Gurgaon and Faridabad – nearly 14,000 acres, the size equivalent of around 8,000 football fields – will not qualify as ‘forest', going by ...