Demands that the Tree Authority be given autonomy are coming in thick and fast. After the Friends of Trees, the Save Bombay Committee has demanded that the Tree Authority should be put in charge of a

Till a few decades ago the tribals in the State used to produce on an average over one lakh kilograms of raw lac of good quality per year. But over the years the production has gone down drastically

Indian Farm Forestry Development Cooperative (IFFDC), promoted by IFFCO, has performed well upto the year 1998-99 by afforesting 21,350 ha of wasteland and organising 140 Primary Farm Forestry

US president Bill Clinton, next week plans to announce an initiative to protect as many as 40 million acres of national forests from development. Environmentalists said, it could represent one of the

The timber mafia, active in the Sheetalpani, Kusang and Padmatola reserve forest areas of Boudh district since the seventies, has kept the newly-formed Mahanadi Wildlife Division at Phulbani engaged

President Bill Clinton next week plans to announce an initiative to protect as many as 40 million acres (16.2 million hectares) of national forest from development, White House officials said.

The jlush forests of Nepal, sheltering some of the world's rarest animals, are vanishing at a rate of 200 hectares a day, precipitating serious ecological and climatic change, conservation

The National Forest Inventory(NFI) shows that the country's forest cover has dwindled from 38 percent of the total area in the late '70s to 29 percent in 19996. Alarming is this decline over the

The condition of Europe's forests is continuing to deteriorate, despite measures to reduce air pollution, a new report said yesterday. Throughout Europe, 35 percent of trees assessed in the survey

Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation(MOFASC) has finally endorsed the National Level Forest Inventory(NFI) of Nepal that puts the country's forest cover at 29 per cent, down from 38 per cent in