Indiscriminate and illegal felling of trees, often in connivance with local influential people, has largely denuded the Sal and Gajari forests in Madhupur and adjoining upazilas in Tangail.

The Bosawas Reserve is a critically important rainforest but native people say it is being destroyed by "colonists"

Trees in the Mandewal jungles of the district, which falls under the Kalesar National Park, is facing threat from the wood mafia as they are being axed right under the nose of forest officials.

The Senate’s Standing Committee on Climate Change on Monday expressed serious reservations over smuggling of precious timber of Chilas, Chitral to rest of the country with the involvement of top bu

Global Forest Watch 2.0 (GFW 2.0) is a powerful near real-time forest monitoring system launching this spring that combines satellite technology, new algorithms, cloud computing, mobile phone techn

Hundreds of fully grown and commercially important trees have been axed by thieves in the Dandeli-Anshi and Bandipur tiger reserves in Karnataka.

Sources indicated a nexus between the forest department officials and local politicians in the Kulgi range of the Dandeli-Anshi Tiger Reserve. In Bandipur, eyewitnesses pointed to the involvement of a forest watcher in the racket. According to sources, a forest guard stationed in the Kulgi beat, Kulgi range, (now promoted and posted as DRFO, Zamga section) had given a free hand to this mass plundering of fecund forests between September 2012 and December 2012).

Measures to prevent illegally harvested timber from entering the European Union come into force on Sunday.

Security mechanisms in Sindhupalchok, Ramechhap and Dolakha districts have been mobilised along the Gaurishankar Conservation Area to control rising cases of wildlife and vegetation smuggling.

Heightened vigil has made the place safer, say residents

Illegal tree cutting on the Jnanabharathi campus of the Bangalore University (BU), responsible for the loss of thousands of sandalwood trees, has largely been tackled, much to the delight of tree lovers. Residents credit the reduction in illegal tree cutting to the increased security on the campus, stepped up following the October 14 gang-rape of a student of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU). The number of trees cut illegally reached a record low in November, for the first time in 39 years. Since then, residents said they are seeing fully-grown sandalwood trees untouched.

Rampant felling of trees from the age-old dense forest of Barmessya-Ramnagar under Manbazar, Block-1 has been reported for the past few years.