99,850 Hectares Of Green Cover Eroded Between ’07 & ’09: IISc Study.

NEW DELHI: A panel set up to review norms for no-go areas that will protect certain areas from commercial activity is likely to recommend mining should be disallowed in all national parks and wildl

NEW DELHI: A panel set up to review norms for no-go areas that will protect certain areas from commercial activity is likely to recommend mining should be disallowed in all national parks and wildl

The government does. It says area under forests has been increasing for the last 13 years.

In order to decide the dispute pertaining to the catchment area of Sukhna Lake, the Chandigarh Administration has sought the original copy of the map of catchment area defined and revalidated by th

The main reason for the rapid drop in green cover in Andhra Pradesh seems to be hidden in the Forest Survey of India's (FSI) latest data on forest fires.

To negate the Punjab government’s claim that no part of the catchment area falls within the jurisdiction of Punjab, Advocate Tanu Bedi, amicus curiae in the public interest litigation (PIL) pertain

The green cover in the state has declined by 554 sq km. This was revealed on Wednesday in the report of the Forest Survey of India.

BHUBANESWAR: In the wake of the call given by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to people to take up plantation in a massive way, the Panchayati Raj Department has requested all district collectors to ensure that the green programme is taken up in right earnest.

The Chief Minister made an appeal to the people to increase the green cover by planting trees during the monsoon while addressing the fiel

Sub-watersheds in border areas not to be covered
With the Survey of India (SoI) and the Ministry of Defence reluctant to grant permission for the digitisation of restricted maps, the Forest Department has decided to go ahead with the finalisation of integrated catchment area treatment plan for the Sutlej basin sans the sub-watersheds falling in border areas.

The finalisation of the catchment a

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