Nearly 1200 sheesham or tali trees, as commonly known, have dried up over the past two years in Dehra sub-division of Kangra diwstrict. Highly placed sources in the Forest Department revealed that

Karen villagers at Ban Watchand in Chiang Mai's Mae Chaem district of Thailand have opposed a Forestry Industry Organisation plan to log the pine forest, saying it would lead to ecological

A huge forest fire engulfed a village near Athens, destroying at least 20 homes, and threatened several other holiday communities. Greece has been plagued by scores of forest fires this summer

The provincial governor has suspended the issuance of land rights documents here pending investigation into the destruction by fire of vast areas of a peat swamp forest. Yongyut Vichaidit said

Asian officials meeting in Manila to develop a detailed fire-fighting plan for Southeast Asia said that higher-than-average rainfall over the past two months has prevented a repeat of last year's

Fires set by farmers to clear forests and grasslands have blanketed two-thirds of Bolivia with smoke, resulting in health warnings, school closings and cancelled airline

The Andhra Pradesh state government has cleared the proposal of Guntur circle of forest officials of embarking on an afforestation programme in catchment areas of Telugu Ganga scheme at a cost of Rs

Large tracts of sheesham forests in north Bihar are reported to have been damaged due to excessive rainfall and stiff

Increasing illegal prawn cultivation and human pressure have posed serious threat to rare mangrove forest in Orissa, which has the second largest concentration in the country after

Beijing would rather sacrifice its timber industry than allow rampant logging to continue, Premier Zhu Rongji said. On an inspection tour of the flood-hit city of Harbin, Heilongjiang province, the