The director general of Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) believes that programmes like ‘Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation plus (REDD+)’ can poten

For the first time in Nepal, two primary stakeholders in the forestry sector, one on conservation and the other on harvesting and utilization, joined hands to ensure that conservation and social se

The green cover in the state has declined by 554 sq km. This was revealed on Wednesday in the report of the Forest Survey of India.

Madhya Pradesh Forest department has been bestowed with the international Green Globe Foundation Award for outstanding achievement in environment sector by the United Nations Environment Programme

‘Concerted efforts necessary to prevent human-elephant conflict'

A day-long sensitisation programme under the Tamil Nadu Biodiversity and Greening Project for members of Village Forest Councils and anti-poaching watchers was organised by the Nilgiris North division of the Forest Department here on Friday.Listing the objectives and use of such programmes, District Forest Officer, the Nilgiris North, S. Ramasubramaniam said that without the support of people particularly those residing in villages located in and around the forests, conservation would become an uphill task.

Faridabad/ New Delhi: The Haryana forest department has pushed the demand to bring the hill area including sacred forest in Mangar in Faridabad under the conservation zone.

The mainstream paradigm of understanding grass-root environmentalism in India as “environmentalism of the poor” might be challenged by an alternative prototype forest movement in the Bengal Dooars prior to the Chipko movement. It was fought against the exploitative design of ecosystem governance under the taungya method of artificial regeneration as invented by colonial foresters during the British rule.

Shillong, Jan.

This volume of case studies comprises one of two main publications resulting from the Oct. 21-22, 2011 Land Tenure and Forest Carbon Management Workshop hosted by the University of Wisconsin/Madison’s Land Tenure Center (LTC), Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, and Geography Dept.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment reviewed the government rules for allocation of title deeds to forest dwellers in this report on Forest Rights Act, 2006.

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