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Chongqing muncipality on the upper reaches of Yangtze River has shut down 26 timber markets since the city announced to ban logging of natural forests in early September. The number is almost one

Someone had set Vail Mountain, Colo., ablaze. Seven fires spread along a mile-long ridge overlooking the ski village. And the responsiblity behind the act was claimed by the Earth Liberation Front. A

The illegal smuggling of timber from the lower parts of Buner to Swabi and Mardan districts of Pakistan has once again gained momentum and officials of the law-enforcement agencies and high-ups of

The Karnataka Forest department has embarked on a Rs 4-crore project to bring its entire forest resource data base online through the development of a Geographical Information

The Border Area Development Minister, Sri Binod Gowala informed that Nagaland had encroached upon about 30,000 hectares of land out of the total 85,000 hectares covering the four reserved forests of

Alongside political parties, a group of non-political organisations is also preparing to "campaign" for the November 25 Assembly elections. Their campaign, confined to the Bastar region, will try to

The countries that share the world's second largest tropical rainforest have decided to come together and face up to the challenges posed by economic globalisation. Decision makers and nature

Transnationals have been promoting tree planting on a massive scale in Latin America so as to have a ready supply of raw materials to match an ever-growing global demand for paper, but this is

It's all quiet on the border with Tibet in this north Sikkim outback. But the Indian Army is engaged in a war of attrition, not across the border, but with the forest department of the Sikkim

Some relief came the way of the nomadic Van Gujjars with the Principal Secretary (Forests), Mr. T. George Joseph, directing the proposed Rajaji National Park authorities not to curtail the

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