India on Monday asked international donor agencies to fund its ambitious $3.2 billion forestry programme to be implemented over the next 20 years. Suresh Prabhu asked so, while inaugurating a

Setting no deadlines and ultimatums for the prevention of environmental haze across a vast region, the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Thursday took a step towards the development

Shogakukan Inc. will launch a 500 hectare forestation project in Australia in 2000 with Nippon Paper Industries Co. and Mitsui & Co., the Tokyo based publishing company said. It will establish a

The Haryana Government has decided to create infrastructure for the propogation of eucalyptus by taking technical knowhow on cloning from Bhadrachalam (Andhra Pradesh). Mr Banarsi Das, Principal

Forest fires have been reported across Jammu and Kashmir, some of them apparently sparked by the cross border shelling. While the initial reports of forest fires were received from the outskirts of

The U.S. Forest Service turns a bit more green.Dombeck is the first director to admit what critics have contended for years - that the taxpayers are taking huge losses on the Forest Service contracts

Tension prevails in Garnavathi village of the Rohtak district over the issue of the alleged illegal felling of trees on the panchayati land by the contractor who had been authorised failed to stop

The race to win votes is having a dangerous impact on India's depleting natural resources which are just "gifted" away during poll time, say conservationists who have drawn up a "green charter" to

Prmopted by the afforestation done by the Haryana forest department in the Aravalli ranges, the Delhi government has urged the Haryana government to extend expertise and knowhow for preparing a

The tribesmen and Dalits living in the thick reserve forest of Thamaravellachal, near the Peechi Reservoir in Thrissur, have challenged Forest Department officials by taking law into their hands. In