In a bid to protest against the Union Environment and Forest Ministry's recent decision regarding ban on use of forest land for development purposes, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank has written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday in which mentioned about an erroneous decision taken by an official of the Government of undivided Uttar Pradesh in 1997 and convey

With only seven per cent of Gurgaon under green cover, the State of Haryana is far behind the target of 33 per cent green cover according to national forest policy. Rapid growth of the city has transformed it into a concrete jungle. Limited resources and ineffective polices are also damaging the forest policy of the State.

The threat of climate change is now overwhelming the dialogue on forest policy. Forests, like other ecosystems, will be affected by temperature increase. But the dimension that is receiving much more attention is their role as a store for carbon. Forests hold more carbon than the atmosphere, and the interchange of carbon between the two is a major element in the climate debate.

The Ministry of Environment and World-wide Fund for Nature on Tuesday launched national programme for conservation of forests and sustainable management of forest ecosystem.

Making sweeping changes in the state