Conservationists, forestry academics and officials in Thailand yesterday clashed over the contents of a draft community forest bill, focussing on a contentious article which allows people to reside

Expanding human settlements are posing a serious threat to forests in the Sunderbans. According to state Forest Department sources, in the last 50 years, the department did not clear a single square

Parts of the remote pine forests of North Karelia, one of the Finland's most heavily wooded areas, are scarred where heavy snowfall and wind have uprooted tightly packed trees. The jagged timber is

Large-scale encroachment of the reserve forests in Lakhimpur district, particularly by the people of Arunachal Pradesh in support of the Government of the neighbouring state, has threatened to

Commercial forestry in the European Union is facing a potential crisis in large areas of woodland following a sharp increase in cheap imports and a growing oversupply of timber. The Finnish-based

Speakers at a seminar in Dhaka yesterday cautioned that the country's future development would be hampered if indiscriminate deforestation is not stopped immediately, reports UNB. The reserve forests

Relentless pressure of population is taking its inevitable toll of the forest cover in Assam. The reserve forests account for 22 per cent for 17,684 sq.km. of the State's geographical area, but most

Appalled by the treatment of environment protesters at Nairobi's Karura Forest, the United Nations Executive Director, Klau Toepfer, said that violence and intimidation was not the way to deal with

Some 24,000 acres of forest have burned in a fire that started on Saturday near San Fernando, about 130 km south of Santiago, the Chilean police reported on

Study : Despite alarm bells rung a few decades about Nepal's dwindling forest resources, a recent study shows that the nation has been largely successful in checking deforestation. The achievement