Special squads to detect bush fires may be set up at all local authorities in a bid to check their spread. Malaysian Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Dr. Ting Chew Peh said another way was

The government has undertaken a massive programme to plant tree on 181,000 hectares of land in the Chittagong Hill

A sternuous ecological project : Each year, China creates 5.3 million hectares of forests, afforests another 3.7 million hectares of mountains where hunting and grazing are prohibited, and plants 2.4

As part of the Golden jubilee celebration of Independence, the Forest Department plans to launch a massive tree planting campaign in the city. As many as two lakh saplings are to be planted in

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has started the inquiry into the tendu leaf case in Madhya Pradesh. Accepting the request of the State Government, the Union Ministry of Home has entrusted

The paper industry has offered to reforest two million hectare of degraded forest lands. Indian paper manufacturers, as producers of wood-based products and good corporate citizens, are committed to

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Dutch primatologist Marc Van Roosmalen of the national Amazon research institute has discovered four previously unknown types of monkey while combing the Amazon forests. One of the new monkeys

Australia banks on forest power to light up towns

The recent spate of forest fire in the vicinity of Thimphu town has destroyed hundreds of acres of forests, according to the Forestry division. The fires first began at Sangayang, near the Bhutan