Biodiversity

 There's more to trees than timber

New thinking on forestry management calls for reducing the emphasis on sustainable timber production and concentrating instead on the protection of countries' ecosystems.

Publication Date: 
14/11/1993
Ann Danaiya
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Pesticides, Forest Management, Deforestation, Wood, Trees, Biodiversity
Industry

 Shaken to their roots

THE UPHEAVAL in Canada's forestry sector is shaking many of the biggest companies to their roots. Parent companies, strapped for cash, have stopped supporting subsidiaries that are making losses

Publication Date: 
14/10/1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forests, Paper and Pulp Industry, Canada, Wood
Forests

 Excise cut criticised

A significant provision for forests in this year's Union budget may turn out to be a case of missing the forest for the trees. Motivated by a desire to "protect the environment and to save wood,"

Publication Date: 
29/04/1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment, Wood, Plywood Industry
India

 Round logs baked square

ROUND logs can be transformed into square ones without using a saw. The process yields wood that is stronger, denser and less liable to split and warp (New Scientist, Vol. 135, No. 1828). The

Publication Date: 
14/09/1992
Down to Earth
Tags:
Wood, Timber Industry, Science And Technology, Japan
India

 Stealing timber

TIMBER worth crores of rupees is being stolen from the UP forests. Trees are cut either without permission or with the connivance of those in authority. Timber worth Rs 30 lakh was seized in a

Publication Date: 
14/08/1992
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forests, Wood, India
Forests

 Chopping down the future

About 90 per cent of Arunachal Pradesh"s revenue is generated by its forests. Yet these very forests are under heavy pressure, thanks to the lucrative and often illegal timber trade thriving under political patronage

Publication Date: 
30/05/1992
Anumita Roychowdhury
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Forests, Land Degradation, Shifting Cultivation, Deforestation, Wood, Trade, Tribals, Arunachal
Forests

 Cold hearths

Energy problems have reached alarming proportions in the Tawang and Bomdilla areas. Since the last five years, Choizm, of Khamba hamlet of Lohu basti in Tawang, has been hiring help

Publication Date: 
30/05/1992
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Forests, Land Degradation, Shifting Cultivation, Deforestation, Wood, Trade, Tribals, Arunachal
Forests

 Who owns the land?

Arunachal Pradesh's tribals believe they have an absolute right over the state's land and forests. The state takes a different view of the matter. The entire area lying

Publication Date: 
30/05/1992
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Forests, Land Degradation, Shifting Cultivation, Deforestation, Wood, Trade, Tribals, Arunachal

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