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  • TTD plans 120-km afforestation

    The Tirumala Tirupatu devasthanams (TTD) which has bagged the prestigious 'Vanamithra award' of the state government this year, has submitted a Rs 10 crore proposal to the centre for expanding TTD's

  • Agali shola forest

    HC restrains Forest Dept: The Kerala High Court has restrained the Forst Department from destroying trees and other vegetation in the 410-hectares Shola forest at Melthottam in Agali range and from

  • Sikkim HC orders fresh CBI probe

    The Sikkim High Court has ordered a fresh enquiry by the CBI into a case relating to felling of trees in North and West districts of the

  • NE forest cover less than 18 pc

    Every second, one-and-a-half acres of forest land are being denuded globally resulting in loss of forest cover to the extent of 17 million hectares per annum. With the depletion of forest cover, more

  • Gujarat flouting SC stay on bamboo felling

    The Gujarat department has been violating a Supreme Court stay order by cutting vast tracts of bamboo from the core forest areas of Shulpaneshwar and Purna wildife sanctuaries and supplying them to a

  • State forest dept was warned in advance

    The decision of the Gujarat Forest Department to digitise the maps, including those of the restricted maps, including those of the restricted areas, through an "unrecognised" vendor has come as a

  • Algeria to convert large cereal land to tree-planting

    Algeria will convert a large part of its agricultural land to tree-planting instead of cereal-growing in an effort to stop desertification, officials said on Thursday.The four-year plan, drafted by

  • BSF men join STF to nab Verappan

    A BSF battalion from the Eastern Sector is joining the Special Task Force to flush out sandalwood smuggler and forest brigand

  • Plan mooted to check deforestation in Meghalaya

    After almost ten frustrating years of failed attempts to implement its village reserved forest scheme in Meghalaya, the State forest department has now turned to the local community for reinforcing

  • Fungi devouring Shisham trees

    The extent of Shisham mortality in the natural forests, plantations and agroforestry has not been enumerated seriously so far, but in the recent past, a large-scale Shisham mortality has been

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