Around twenty years back 50,000 trees were planted on the sides of ringroad to form a green belt in Kathmandu. But, lately the green belt is fast diminishing. Earlier, there were 31 roads legally

A National Environment Fund (NEF) in association with industrial and developmental activity in the country is proposed to be set up soon by the environment and forest ministry to promote

Large scale felling of infected and dried sal trees in two forest ranges of Dehra Dun have been taken up by the UP Forest Corporation. About 15,000 trees have been felled already and at least double

The premier vigilance agency of Madhya Pradesh, the Lok Ayukta, has severely indicted several influential politicians of both the Congress and the BJP, senior bureaucrats and timber merchants for

Many of America's ornamental trees and the maple syrup, lumber and tourism industries are threatened by an invasion of the Asian long-horned wood boring beetles, according to a recent US government

The Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta organisation has indicted several leaders of the ruling Congress(I) , opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) , bureacrats and the timber merchants in the Malik Maqbuja

South Asian countries such as India, Nepal and Bhutan and their respective governments have embarked on programmes to facilitate nationwide forest management which would be closer to the people and

WWF report : More than ten per cent of the world's forest reserves have been squandered in the last decade, a recent report by the World Wide Fund for Nature says. "The world has lost 10 per cent of

Twenty-two community forest user's committees have been formed and forest regions entrusted to them with the formulation of the community forest development policy by the Nepal Government to control

Panel to study Maharashtra lands: The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has constituted a high-powered committee to examine the records of Zudpi jungle lands in Maharashtra and identify lands