Forest department to involve tribal people living in reserve forest area

At last count, Erode district had a forest cover of 2,27,678 hectares — 1,45,531 in Sathyamangalam division and 82,147 in Erode division — accounting for 27.7 per cent of the district’s geographical area of 5,722 square kilometres.

The government will set up an official committee to monitor adherence to environmental laws by factories and industries in the State.

Addressing presspersons here on Wednesday, Minister for Forests, Ecology and Environment B. Ramanath Rai said the proposed committee, comprising officials of the department, would visit industrial areas and conduct inspections of small, medium and large-scale industries in the private and public sector.

Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki said that his government is committed to increase the State’s forest cover by another 90 per cent by controlling shifting cultivation, arresting forest f

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s gardens department on Monday presented its budget estimate of Rs114 crore for the fiscal year 2014-15.

The Karnataka government will implement the second phase of the Karnataka Sustainable Forest Management and Biodiversity Conservation Project, aimed at expanding forests, over the next eight years.

The project will involve a cost of Rs 1899.72 crore. It will be implemented with an aid of Rs 1701.98 crore from the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA), with the state government contributing the remaining share.

The fifth phase of Sri Lanka's domestic agriculture program "Divi Neguma" will commence on October 11, the Ministry of Economic Development announced.

The green initiative undertaken by Hindustan Zinc, part of the Vedanta Group, has resulted in an annual saving of Rs 280 crore.

Planting saplings grafted from twins detached from a Malgoa mango tree planted by Gandhiji at Payyannur nearly eight decades ago is a novel way of celebrating Gandhi Jayanthi.

The Kannur-based Kerala Initiative to Save Agriculture and Nature (KISAN) has 100 grafts in its possession now to be distributed among various institutions for planting on October 2.

Blame put on delay in forming standing committees

The delay by the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) in forming 12 standing committees has affected the green drive so much that not a single seedling has been planted in the City out of Palike funds this year, officials say.

A recent survey by BBC Media Action, BBC’s charity for international development, has shown that farmers in Nepal were searching for information to tackle environmental changes.

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