Sandhya Hegde Almane
Once, the Bachagaon forest region was famous for theft of timbers. Today, though, it is a plantation full of greenery. All thanks to the Bachagaon village forest committee (VFC), which has become a model to other VFCs by providing firewood to villagers and income to the committee by converting plain land into an acacia plantation.
Forest Department has arrested 30 farmers including 8 women for cultivation in bagair hukum land, in Haragihal forest limits (Shikaripur taluk) on Monday.
The arrested, who belong to Esur village, have been remanded to judicial custody till June 29.
The Karnataka High Court on Monday pulled up the Forest department for delay in despatching the letter to Survey of India to be part of the joint survey of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh borders.
The Madhupur forests have almost disappeared, thanks to encroachment, neglect in preservation, corruption by forest officials, nepotism in leasing forestland and discriminatory attitudes towards indigenous people for decades.
AHMEDABAD: A huge racket of selling protected forest land in and around Gir to hoteliers, industrialists and politicians, was unearthed when someone who was obstructed from constructing on such land moved the Gujarat High Court.
Minister for Forest, Ecology and Environment Mian Altaf Ahmad today said that the government will do everything possible to prevent forest fires in future and safeguard the forest wealth as the survival of mankind hinges on its protection.
The Assam Government has almost resigned to the fate that waterlogging in Guwahati city cannot be totally prevented and now the focus is on ensuring quick discharge of water to reduce the miseries of the citizens.
With an aim to check encroachment of forest land and human movement in core forest zone, the state government approved creation of buffer zone in Dudhwa National Park that would, in turn, give an impetus to the Project Tiger.
The buffer zone would comprise nearly 150 km long stretch of North Kheri division under which Dudhwa National Park fell.
