Indian forest and wood certification scheme
The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has launched the Indian Forest & Wood Certification Scheme. This national forest certification scheme offers voluntary third-party certification
Forest Management
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Misreading the issues and the landscape
This response to the comment “Protecting India’s Protected Areas” by Praveen Bhargav and Shekar Dattatri (23 April 2011) points out the authors’ misreading of the Forest Rights Act and also of the report
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Agreement to protect Murree Forests Division signed
A crucial agreement for the mapping and monitoring of Murree Forests Division (MFD), highlighting encroachments on forest land, was signed between the Punjab Forest Department and World Wide Fund for Nature
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15 lakh hectares of forest land unidentified
30 lakh hectares of forest land out of a statistical figure of 45 lakh hectares land in Bangladesh have been marked, according to a news agency. The remaining of the 15 lakh hectares of unidentified forest land is located under 27 districts.
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Forest policy to be changed after incorporating public views
PANJIM, The state forest policy will undergo modification after including suggestions made by various stakeholders, according to Additional Principal Chief Conservation of Forest Dr Shashi Kumar. He said that another committee may be formed to include suggestions given by various stakeholders.
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Tripura Forest Department gives administrative power to TTAADC
<p>AGARTALA, The Left Front Government has given administrative powers of forest department to Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC), the first tribal autonomous council in the country having received such power, State Forest Minister Jitendra Chowdhury said on Saturady.
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Harmful practices being carried out in protected areas under CAMPA
Just when Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh had expressed shock over the manner in which Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA) was being implemented in certain States, the Wildlife Society of Odisha, member organisation of the National Board for Wild Life (NBWL) has drawn the attention of the Ministry to the alleged
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Letter from Jairam Ramesh to Prithviraj Chavan, Chief Minister of Maharashtra on the subject of access to and collection of bamboo
<p>Letter from Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State (Independent Charge) Environment & Forests to Prithviraj Chavan, Chief Minister of Maharashtra on whether access to and collection of bamboo in the reserve forest amounts to a forest offence under the Indian Forest Year 1927.</p>
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New laws for old: Forest rights and red-tape wrongs
It is a little known fact that in roughly a fifth of our country
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Draft Goa state forest policy 2009
<p>The state government has finally declared the 'Goa state forest policy - 2009' even as the green cover has shrunk drastically and is further threatened by mining and development activities. The policy seeks to blend the basic principles of the national forest policy ( NFP 1988) with the state's needs.
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70-point resolution roadmap for State's development: Chouhan
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that the 70-point resolution passed in the special session of the State Assembly was a roadmap towards development of Madhya Pradesh. While replying to the discussion on the motion of thanks to the Governor's address in the State Assembly on Thursday, Chouhan said the State Government was committed for implementing all the points of the resolution by 20