Wood residues – the materials left over when trees are logged and processed – hold the potential to support resource-efficient energy access, revitalize rural economies and help mitigate climate change,
HYDERABAD: The Southern Forest Ministers
Aizawl, Oct 19: Teak planters under the Tut-Langkaih Reserved Forest today vowed that they would employ any means to sell their
Rajiv Shah | TNN Gandhinagar: Gujarat government has begun controversial exercise of trying to identify, using satellite imagery, those areas that state
Dharmendra Pratap Yadav VELLORE: Human destruction of forest wealth and deprivation of food and water for wild animals in their natural habitat are the reasons for the animals straying into agricultural land in search of food and damaging crops , Collector Dharmendra Pratap Yadav said here on Tuesday.
The availability and quality of clean water in many regions of the world is increasingly threatened by overuse, misuse and pollution. In this context, the relationship between forests and water is a critical issue that must be accorded high priority. This thematic study on forests and water was developed in the context of the Global Forest Resources Assessment programme.
In a developing country like India, the development of rural economy through effective and proper management of common property resources (CPRs) such as forests has increasingly become an integral part of sustainable development policy in the past couple of decades.
KOKRAJHAR, Sept 29: In a major breakthrough, the Bodoland Forest Protection Force of the Forest Department under Kachugaon forest division and local NGOs including Green Forest Conservation and Green Leaf Society unearthed a major illegal timber business recently approximately worth Rs 1 crore in a raid at Jhalabila area under Parbhatjhora subdivision of Kokrajhar district.
DH News Service,Koppa: Tribals have the right to collect and process forest produce. Tribals should see that no middlemen come in between, said DFO B P Ravi.
BISWANATH CHARIALI, Sept 19: After the Cenral Government passed a Law in 1980 for conservation of the Forest resources, different state governments started to strictly implement the law resulting in i
Guwahati: Insurgency has claimed yet another casualty in Assam in the form of decreasing forest cover in strife-torn hilly districts, though the state still boost of a better forest cover than the national average. The forest cover in districts such as Karbi Anglong and North Cachar Hills has gone down according to Forest Survey report, 2005, Assam Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain informed here on Wednesday. These districts have been encountering serious insurgent problems with tribal militant groups creating grave law and order problems in these virgin lands.
