Flouting all environmental norms, vested interests have cut hundreds of trees on the Delhi-Jaiput highway here (Gurgaon). On an area of just a stretch of 1 km starting from the Jharsa crossing to

The Forest department proposes to double its protected forest area from the present 6000 sq km and has sought the sanction of the Ministry of Environment and Forests to declare eight areas in the

In forestry lingo, "selective thinning" is what loggers do to woods that are overgrown and vulnerable to disease. It's also what some Congressional Republicans are apprently planning for the U.S.

Agriculture Minister Pongpol Adireksarn yesterday opened up two battlefronts simultaneously against farmers' groups and conservationists with his announced intention to revoke three cabinet

The wild elephants that once roamed freely over southern China, retreated long ago to the dense tropical rain forests which cover the mountains near the nation's borders with Myanmar (previously

Four Greenpeace activists who boarded the shipment of ancient Canadian rainforest timber and pulp were served with an injunction to prevent them from holding up the ship, the 'Saga Wind', run by Saga

The trial of 18 environmentalists arrested on June 24, 1997 for blockading the clearcut logging operations of International Rainforests Products on King Island in the Great Bear Rainforest begins

The Orissa high court has settled the three-month-old controversy over the sale of kendu leaf in favour of the state-owned Orissa Forest Development Corporation (OFDC). On Tuesday, the court

Plantation companies which claimed ownership of thousands of acres in their advertisements for attracting investors are finding the going tough as many states in the country do not permit companies

The World Bank team which visited Jabalpur for appraisal of projects under social forestry scheme has expressed its satisfaction over the progress made so far in implementation of the scheme.