Flip through a travel brochure, and you're likely to see pictures of sun and sand in Southeast Asia, of luxury lodges in the Serengeti, of scuba diving in the bejewelled coral reefs of the Caribbean, but what the brochure won't reveal is the environmental cost of your trip. That beach in Thailand may once have housed precious mangroves, which were ripped up to make way for your hotel.

Torrential rain did not deter 75 people in Dakpai, Zhemgang, from planting tree saplings and live cuttings on a five-acre area above the Zhemgang

Shimla - Alarmed over serious environmental damage at the Kacchi Ghati green belt, the forest department today slapped a penalty of Rs 4.5 lakh on the erring Public Works Department (PWD). The PWD has also been sent written orders to stop the work at the site and take immediate steps to restore the damage already caused to the trees. Any further defiance of the orders will call for invoking legal options and also arrest of the officials, the forest department warned.

In order to stop the damage to the environment by cutting trees during various festivals, Mayor Rajlaxmi Bhosale on Wednesday said the civic administration would initiate action against those selling branches of trees in the city.

A tree-planting program began in Handhufushi Resort and Spa, formerly known as Herathere Island Resort, on Wednesday. The resort was taken over by a new management, Yacht Tours, on the first of this month and since then the company has tried to clean up the island and make it more 'green'. The tree-planting program is part of the cleanup and renovation work being carried out at the island by Yacht Tours and students from Muhibbuddin School, Ismlamiyya School, Feydhoo School and Seenu Atoll School participated in the program.

It would be a sad census in any case, but the tally of trees lost in Central Park to high winds during the storm on June 10 comes with particular ill grace in the middle of the Million Trees NYC campaign. Skip to next paragraph Leave a Comment on City Room "You felt it was like a tornado,' said Douglas Blonsky, president of the Central Park Conservancy and the administrator of Central Park. According to the conservancy's survey, 33 trees were significantly damaged, 24 of which have already been removed.

The longevity of a banyan tree is often compared with at least seven life spans of a human being and hence women worship this tree for the well-being of their family, especially husband. These days, with more and more women working, there is no time to do the "pheras" around the banyan tree. Hence, small time vendors chop branches and sell them at the market which are bought by women and worshipped.

The Kandy High Court yesterday issued a three-month interim order against the Gampola Urban Council restraining it from cutting down three trees on a land adjoining the Wigulwatte playgrounds at Gampola. The petitioner Nisantha Pingamage of Gampola through his lawyer Ajith Dharmaprema said the Gampola Urban Council had called tenders to cut down three

The Bangladesh Army has undertaken a massive programme to make the National Tree Plantation Campaign-2008 a success. Quarter master general of the Bangladesh Army Lieutenant General M Jahangir Alam Choudhury inaugurated the tree plantation campaign of the army by planting a palm sapling beside the Army Central Mosque on Sunday. Senior army officers were present on the occasion. Later, he offered prayers seeking success of the campaign, said an ISPR release.

The National Fruit-bearing Tree Plantation Fortnight-2008 begins today across the country. This year's theme for the day is "Plant more fruit-bearing saplings, have improved health, nutrition and money." President Iajuddin Ahmed and Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed have issued separate messages on the occasion. In his message, Iajuddin stressed the need for ensuring nutrition apart from achieving food security to protect people's health.