Farmers and forest managers should be allowed to earn carbon offsets from planting and looking after trees in tropical countries, the Nairobi-based World Agroforestry Center said on Wednesday.

An Indonesian city battling the effects of deforestation has come up with a novel way of tackling the problem. Would-be families must plant a tree.

"Everyone who wants to get married or apply for a birth certificate must plant a tree," Syahrum Syah Setia, the head of Balikpapan city's Environmental Impact Management Agency, said.

The high court on Monday set up a three-member committee to probe the felling of trees at the Indian Botanic Garden.

Indonesia, which has been losing forests at a rapid pace in recent years, plans to plant 100 million trees across the country this year in an effort to limit deforestation, a forestry official said on Wednesday.

: Despite the fact that the provincial capital is in grip of pollution, the forest department has started cutting hundreds of valuable trees on both sides of the Warsak road.

Warangal, Nov. 17: The decline in Maoist presence in the forests of the district is resulting in a new problem

Kadapa, Nov. 17: District forest officials are once again a worried lot over the fresh incidents of smuggling of red sanders in Kadapa district. In a fresh incident, smugglers tried to illegally transport red sanders logs in Nandalur mandal headquarters town in the district late on Sunday night.