Hyderabad, May 2: The AP Forest Inventory Report 2010 has revealed that the state forest growing stock has decreased by 60 million cubic metres. As a direct result of the depleting growing stock, experts say the state will experience adverse climate changes and increasing temperatures.

hyderabad, may 2: The AP Forest Inventory 2010, the report made by state forest officials is considered to be the first of its kind in the country.

Given the fractured relationship between forest depts and forest-dwellers, involving tribal population in preparation of working plans is critical
Indira Rajaraman / New Delhi May 1, 2010, 0:30 IST

Given the badly fractured relationship between forest departments and forest-dwellers, involving the tribal population in the preparation of working plans is critical

Local biodiversity rapidly being affected by various developmental activities across the nation has spurred forestry official to come up with various measures to combat it.

MUMBAI: Residents of Kandivli, Borivli and Thane

SHIMLA: Hundreds of villagers under the banner of Himachal Kisan Sabha on Tuesday staged a 24 hour dharna outside the office of Principal Chief Conservator of Forest demanding timber distribution rights.

State Kisan Sabha president Kuldip Tanwar has alleged that top forest officials are insensitive and not empathetic towards the demand of farmers and their forest rights.

THE environment ministry has reconstituted the joint committee set up with the ministry of tribal affairs to assess the impact of Forest Rights Act on sustainable management of forest resources.

Initially constituted in February, the joint committee and its terms of reference had to be reworked given protests by civil society organisations and activists.

Vinobha K T, Mangalore, Apr 16, DHNS:

For millennia, they lived in harmony with nature in the pristine forests of what is now the Kudremukh National Park, but in the recent years the innocent world of the Malekudiya tribals is in turmoil.

Forest cover in Madhya Pradesh is diminishing, but the Forest Department is yet to act on the suggestions received from field officials.

Conservator of Forest Azad Singh Dabas, who was earlier posted in Betul was transferred around a year ago for raising the issue of diminishing forest cover in the State.