Effectively, the decision would transfer the sacred groves from community protection to forest officialdom for the purposes of conservation. The move defies the Forest Rights Act (FRA) 2006 ...

International Journal of the Commons, Vol. 16, No. 1 (2022), pp. 94-107 (14 pages) Globally, sacred groves represent a traditional form of community-based conservation, recognized as areas of cultural ...

For sacred groves and other ecosystems to thrive, a paradigm shift is needed: one that empowers local communities and embraces diversity in management practices The Supreme Court’s recent ...

These sacred groves are also crucial to the fight against climate change. A new study finds that carbon mitigated by two undisturbed urban sacred forests in Sikkim is almost double the amount of ...