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The Indian government’s violations of the Wildlife (Protection) Act and the Forest Rights Act have exacerbated conflicts in Tiger Reserves between the forest bureaucracy and forest-dwellers, ultimately endangering India’s tigers.

The biggest lacuna in the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act implementation is the incomplete recognition of community rights to manage forests

Racism towards Black people has risen in the European Union, a report published Wednesday has found. It pinpointed Germany, Austria and Finland as countries with the highest rates of discrimination and harassment.

Calling the findings ‘shocking and shameful,’ the European Agency for Fundamental Rights has demanded action.

Tiruvannamalai Dist. Collector issues forest title rights to 1,569 tribal people & other traditional forest dwellers in Jawadhu Hills. 49,400 hectares of forestland covered; beneficiaries can collect minor forest produce. 568 applications initially rejected, now approved. FRA law monitored by committees headed by Chief Sec., Collectors & RDO's.

Passenger railroads nationwide will now be required to install video recorders inside their locomotives

Federal inspectors found an alarming number of defects in the locomotives and railcars Union Pacific was using at the world's largest railyard in western Nebraska this summer, and the railroad was reluctant to fix the problems

The Mizoram Assembly has passed a resolution opposing the Forest (Conservation) Amendment Act, 2023. Aside from special Constitutional protections in Mizoram and Nagaland, the Act is applicable in the rest of India’s Northeast. In 1996, the Supreme Court expanded the term ‘forest land’, such that the Forest Rights Act also…

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