Meghalaya Speaker E K Mawlong and two Cabinet ministers of the B B Lyngdoh government were heckled by an irate crowd at an election rally in Nongstoin in West Khasi Hills district when they failed

For the past two years, Mike Dombeck, the chief of the United States Forest Service, has strug-gled to change the culture of a notoriously stubborn agency that has long favored the harvesting of

Concern for the country's deforestation and resulting damage to the ecosystem is great in today's China. The government and the people consider it important to improve the forest ecosystem and to

India's forsts and wildlife need considerable protection during the coming polls as political parties and candidates might use them in various ways to raise funds and appeases voters, prominent

Traffic India, a division of Worldwide Fund for Nature, is undertaking a comprehensive study to suggest ways and means for sustainable utilisation of medicinal plants of the country. The study

A committee appointed by the Environment Minister, Mr Suresh Prabhu, has recommended the setting up of gender and environment cells in state forest departments, besides taking other pro-women

Sapling on 11,000 hectares of land of the district Rangamati (Bangladesh) have been planted since 1995 under the government's afforestation and rehabilitation programme, spending Tk. 28

Tucked away in a remote corner of the state stretches for miles - broken intermittently by lush green tea bushes and tall bamboo trees is not known to

Regular pattas to the encroachers and Tribals was an election promise of the Congress during the last Assembly elections. The party's government would now find it difficult to fulfill the promise.

The demand for community forest has been increasing to such an extent in Dolakha district of Nepal that the demand is far more than the target of the district forest office. The target for the