They stage a novel protest wearing leaves

SALEM: Thamizhaga Adivasi Amaippugalin Kootamaippu (TAAK) has demanded the immediate implementation of the Forest Rights Act 2006 in Tamil Nadu.

To highlight this issue, they also staged a novel protest here on Tuesday wearing leaves.

DEMAND: Tribal people staging a demonstration in Dindigul on Monday.

DINDIGUL: Tribals from different villages on the Kodaikanal hill on Monday organised a demonstration here on Monday to flay a move to displace them from their land by Forest Department officials. They appealed to the government to implement the Forest Rights Act and redraw tribal areas.

Maharashtra is the first to recognize their rights over forests two villages in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra have become the first in the country to win community rights over forests under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006. On August 15, Ramesh Bang, the state food and civil supplies minister, said the claims of Mendha

A village killed its forest then revived it with herbal therapy Simple herbal cures can bring trees back to life. Kamleshwar Nath believes. He has been healing trees in Sonebhadra district of Uttar Pradesh for 20 years now. The task before Baba, as the 55-year-old is called, is to save the forest in his village, Nagwa. Baba

Mahim Pratap Singh

Bhopal: Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh on Saturday said he was not very keen on the Madhya Pradesh government

Residents of Colomba-Quepem on Saturday confronted the officials of forest department, when they along with the officials of a mining company went to inspect the forestland at Colomba.

C. Gouridasan Nair

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In what is being termed