The World Bank had decided to hold back the financial grant following large scale opposition of the projects by the non-governmental organisations. Official sources told UNI that the World Bank had

The Dibru-Saikhowa National Park authorities achieved a major success when it thwarted an abortive attempt at destruction of forests inside the national park recently by nabbing four miscreants along

A Social Forestry Mission has been launched by the Madhya Pradesh government in four districts of the state for productive use of natural resources in private hands which are lying idle due to legal

Over 300 tribals from Madhya pradesh, Orissa and representatives of several Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) assembled at the World Bank premises in the Capital on Wednesday. They presented a

Certain forest contractors in connivance with officials of the state Forest Corporation are using the forests lots of private sale to cover up and carry out illicit felling in the Thachi range of

Patrudu: Of the six districts for which data on forest coverage is available through remote sensing, Nizamabad registered a good 57.30 per cent increase in the coverage between 1996 and

The Lobeake forest lies on the border of the Sangha river, 500 kilometers south-east of Yaounde, the capital of Cameraon. It became a protected reserve in June 1998 when the government decided to

Forest Minister K H Ranganath today said that his department was contemplating formulation of a new policy which would help in striking a balance between felling matured trees and re-plantation at

The tree density in the 370 sq kms forests of the Vijaynagar taluka of the Sabarkantha district has reached above 40 per cent, says a latest report published by the Forest Survey of

Pyongyang, with 2 million residents, has cleaner air largely because there isn't enough money or gasoline for more vehicles, belying the dire state of North Korea's environment. The key problem is