Some Tk 28 crore will be spent for afforestation of the denuded hill forests in Khagrachhari Rangamati and Bandarban districts of Bangladesh. A massive afforestation programme has been taken up by

In the midst of reports that the Forest Department officials are misutilising the European Community (EU) grant meant for greening Haryana - a portion of the Aravalli ranges - the State Forest

The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MEF) and Steel Authority of India (SAIL) are heading for a showdown, with the former vehemently opposing SAIL's proposal to undertake captive iron ore mining

The Centre yesterday submitted to the Supreme Court a draft notification setting up a nodal authority under the Environment Act for Arunachal Pradesh.The authority will take care of the disposal of

Delhi ridge which was declared a reserve forest in May 1994 had encroachments on 61 per cent of the total area earmarked as the ridge . Following a Supreme Court ruling in May 1995, only 30 per

The non-governmental organisations Greenpeace, Ibase, Fase and others are seriously concerned with the slow and inefficient response by the government agencies responsible in taking effective

A chase and several rounds in the air later, a four-member gang, involved in sandalwood tree thefts in and around the City, was arrested by the Sadavshivanagar police, and sandalwood billets worth

An interim report on the supply of substandard wood at cremation grounds will be submitted on Thursday by the MCD Vigilance Department. All documents of five cremation grounds were sealed by the

The ambitious urban forestry programme mooted by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporaiton and aimed at developing green patches on certian portions of the city, exactly a year ago has failed miserably

5% of Maine, plenty of trees : Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of forest, a swath that is about 5 percent of the land in Maineis is for sale in the northern part of the state, prompting a