Survey Finds Ahmedabad Among Six Districts With Less Than 10 Trees Per Hectare; Gandhinagar, Anand Top List
Rapid urbanisation has taken a toll on the tree cover in Ahmedabad. It now features among the six districts which have less than 10 trees per hectare.

This was revealed in findings of a 2009 tree cover survey.

The representatives of 14 more villages under Tuensang district met at Chingmei under the Eastern Nagaland Conservation Area Network (ENCAN) recently and decided to conserve the forest areas under their village jurisdiction.

JAMMU, Jan 28: State Cabinet today accorded much needed approval to the Draft Forest Policy, which has been prepared for the first time in Jammu and Kashmir for scientific management and conservation of the forests, and approved enhancement of the water usage charges.

"The forest policy lays emphasis on reconciliation of land records of Revenue Department with Demarcation Record of Forest Depar

LUCKNOW: In order to conserve and develop forests through public participation, Forest Development Authorities (FDAs) have been created at the level of a forest division. Till now, the state has 63 divisions, where FDAs got funds from the Centre.

"FDAs have been existing in almost all the forest divisions," said sources in forest department.

The reforesting proposal may be a no-go for the environment ministryIn the latest round of sparring between the environment ministry and the coal ministry over mining access to the

With the Sikkim Government determined to increase afforestation, the state forest department has launched a roadmap of the National Afforestation Programme here.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Madhavan Pillai Foundation for Conservation has selected G Kannan, a forest watcher at Periyar Tiger Reserve in Thekkady, for the Madhavan Pillai Conservation Award-2011 instituted by the Foundation.

Addressing a news conference here on Friday, Balan Madhavan, director of the Foundation, said that Kannan, who has been serving as an anti-poaching watcher and speed boat d