More than half the world’s mangroves have been lost over the last century but all of those surviving in Sri Lanka, one of their most important havens, are now to be protected in an unprecedented op
The Environment and Forestry Ministry’s deputy for environmental damage control and climate change, Arief Yuwono, said the government may issue another presidential instruction (Inpres) to extend a
Calabar — With Nigeria losing over 500,000 hectares of forest yearly to deforestation, experts have called for the repeal of the Land Use Act in the country.
PESHAWAR: Adviser to Chief Minister on Environment Ishtiaq Urmar on Monday told the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly that the provincial government has approved the Scientific Management Policy for prot
A moratorium on land conversion begun during former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s administration in 2011 has not yet been effective to save peat forests in Riau, as slash and burn practices
ISLAMABAD: Forests being cut in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir territory by the timber mafia will bring the looming water crisis in the region nearer, warned an official of the territory.