DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand Forest Resource Management Project, funded by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to the tune of Rs 807 crore over an eight-year period, is now all set to be execute

At least Rs 5,000 crore will be spent on providing green cover to the country's National Highways network in the next five years under the Green Highways Policy unveiled on Tuesday.

Union Government has launched Green Highways (Plantation, Transplantation, Beautification & Maintenance) Policy-2015 to promote greening of National Highway corridors across the country. The policy was unveiled by Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari in New Delhi.

670 km stretch of East-West Corridor

The forest department has started building a team of forest ambassadors to promote forest and wildlife conservation among natives of the villages around Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary.

Describing forest as nature's great gift, Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today called for framing a policy and involving people to conserve forest wealth in the state.

A sapling was gifted to every speaker on the dias at the inaugural function of state-level observation of International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer.

Security challenges have stalled the implementation of the Great Green Wall (GGW) project in the North-East, a check by the News Agency of Nigeria reveals.

MANALI: In a hope that the National Green Tribunal (NGT) will lift ban and resume tourist activities in Rohtang Pass after the area dons green cover, Manali is all set to launch a massive afforesta

KOLKATA: Encouraged over the success of replanting tall trees, The West Bengal Waste Land Development Corporation (WBWLDC) will develop a 'tall tree nursery' over 5 acre of land at Rajarhat New Tow

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