Northern hilltribes people plan to converge in Bangkok to block aresolution to evict them from national forests, while their opponents have threatened to drum up support for the prime minister's

Nepal Rangers Association (NRA), whose members went on a relay hunger strike, announced that the strike will continue. And as the rangers continue their indefinite strike, there has been a sudden

More than 100 wild fires burned through northern Florida, skirting a town but, destroying swathes of a national

The world's forests have been under siege since the turn of the century, but this year has been calamitous. In Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Central America, Africa and Indonesia, fires have destroyed some

A forest protection squad has been formed at Villupuram, to monitor the movement of sandalwood in the villages on the Tamil Nadu-Pondicherry border.Consisting of a Ranger, two Foresters and an equal

Leaders of several Pakistani tribes have threatened to resume poppy cultivation if sanctions imposed by the United States are not lifted by

It might only take six months but city chiefs are planning to register trees across Bangkok. A meticulous survey of the capital's trees will include those growing along roads, in public spaces and on

Vast forest fires have scarred the globe, but the worst may be yet to come. And the main reason behind it is El Nino. While that notorious weather system flooded some regions, it produced horrendous

The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests is pursuing its case for obtaining more funds from the Planning Commission for its afforestation programme and also plans to create a Joint Forest

The government is investigating a Global Witness report that a Cambodian firm is about to send 100,000 cubic metres of timber to aThai company through Laos. Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai said he had