The J&K Police have seized a massive consignment of red sanders, a fragrant timber in great demand for cabinet work and also used as dyewood, from a village in Leh where it had been ferried all the way from Andhra Pradesh to be smuggled across to China. Police said they were looking at possible links of the smugglers with the People

IWST will use nanotechnology to create this unique material for furniture, car interiors

Unique material: Test samples of the wood-polymer composites at the Institute of Wood Science and Technology in Bangalore

101 Hectares Identified Near Bhachau
Harit Mehta TNN

Ahmedabad: The arid region of Kutch may not have much to do with trees. But, the border district may soon have a Wood Special Economic Zone, the first of its kind in the country.

Paper products giant Kimberly-Clark Corp joined forces with Greenpeace on Wednesday, pledging to conserve forests by getting wood fiber from environmentally responsible sources.

Organised crime syndicates are eyeing the nascent forest carbon credit industry as a potentially lucrative new opportunity for fraud, an Interpol environmental crime official said on Friday.

Peter Younger, an environmental crimes specialist at the world's largest international police agency, was referring to a UN-backed scheme called reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation.