The Delhi Environment and Forest Department would plant 23 lakh trees this year, according to the Action Plan finalised by the Environment Department. Of these, 60 per cent trees would be planted

Argentina's forestation programme should plant 180,000 hectares of new trees in 1999 as the nation guns for a fresh two million sown hectares in a 10-year push, government officials said. Currently

The President of India, K R Narayanan has been urged to promulgate an ordinance excluding reserved forests from the jurisdiction of the District Government system of Madhya

Jardhar Gaon, a typical hill village nestling in the serene and picturesque surroundings in the Himalayan foothills has achieved great success in conserving forests, reviving agricultural traditions

Women and social workers are drawing inspiration from their age-old traditions to check the depletion of precious forest wealth in the Garhwal and Kumaon Hills of Uttar Pradesh. Garhwal womenfolk,

It may sound strange that a State earns more money by exploiting its poorest people, but this is the hard truth as far as the Orissa Government's attitude towards the Kendu leaf pluckers are

Describing the Conservation Acts as "anti-people', the village panchayats and the social activities of the Uttarakhand region have launched a drive to express their resentment against these laws.A

The Ministry of environment and forests has taken up a Rs 150 crore bamboo plantation scheme to augument availability of bamboo resources. The scheme was launched on the occasion of the World

Sikkim joined the rest of the world in observing Environment Day by launching an afforestation scheme of memorial forests or smriti bans to develop stretches of barren and degraded land into

J&K Forest Minister, Choudhary Mohammad Ramzan announced that the Rs 217 crore World Bank Intergrated Watershed Development Project phase-II would be taken in hand shortly for rehabilitation of