A meet of the NGOs and tribal associations have demanded that people's participation should be the thrust of the proposed Tamil Nadu Government Forest policy instead of the Forest Department. This

More than 204 forestry graduates from Dr Y S Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry are facing a bleak future following the parallel system of forestry education and because of the wrong

The Orissa governemnt has been restrained from leasing out forest land and water bodies in the Bhitarkanika Sanctuary. The state government has further been restrained from allowing any aquaculture

The forest department has pulled up a senior member of the prominent Mumbai-based Bombay Environmental Action Group (BEAG), Colonel Mohite, for allowing illegal felling of trees in the

Of late, the large-scale deforestation and encroachment in the forest areas of Sonitpur district has been a matter of great

Through a multi-pronged afforestation programme the Tamil Nadu Forest Department is breathing life into the shola forests of the Nilgiris : a

Yunnan province in China is to ban logging in the Jinsha River basin and launch a reforestation drive to limit the damage caused by future floods. Xinhua reported that the ban would take effect on

Use of paper products has increased alarmingly, leading to a consequent decrease in wood products.

Floods have caused extensive damage to forest cover in North Bengal this year. The Haldapara and Mahananda forests and the Buxa Tiger Project are the worst hit. Continuous erosion by the Torsa

A state of emergency was declared in the greater Athens area and in a southern prefecture as wind-whipped brushfires killed at least one person and threatened the ancient site of