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  • A project that endangers M.P. forests

    The forests in Madhya pradesh are getting denuded, degraded and devastated by mounting biotic pressure caused by an ever increasing population. What would now be adding further to this threat is the

  • Firms to control Jakarta forests

    Indonesia, long criticised over the plundering of tis forests, will shift control of foresty concessions from private loggers to state companies, forestry and plantations minister Nur Mahmudi Isma'il

  • Qinghai launches afforestation campaign

    Northwest China's Qinghai Province is vigorously pushing ahead a ten-year afforestation program.The move is to increase forest coverage in Qinghai by four percent, said a local forestry

  • M.P. water crisis caused by forest exploitation

    The newly induscted Madhya Pradesh Forest Minister, Mr. Harbans Singh, today expressed concern over the rapidly depleting water-table and said ruthless exploitation of forests and illegal logging

  • Out of the woods

    There are many who still doubt Naveen Patnaik's skills as administrator and politician. In a sweeping reform that none of his predecessors have dared to do, he has proved their doubts are unfounded.

  • Massive funds for green project

    Forestry authorities will pour a record 220 million yuan (US$26.5 million) into a massive afforestation plan aimed at turning China's barren and arid western regions into green areas, it was recently

  • Mexico seeks to save Chiapas jungle from farmers

    Mexican officials are trying to convince 17 indigenous communities in the troubled state of Chiapas to leave their homes in an ecological reserve in order to save the land from forest fires,

  • Wild fire

    Himachal alerts officials, seeks Central aid: The forest department officials have been asked to remain vigilant and take all the necessary steps in advance to prevent forest fires. The state

  • Where the future is made of wood

    It's harvest time for the newly converted tree farmers of Leshan, in China's Sichuan province.Backed by such US investors as Chase Capital Partners plus more than $35million of project financing and

  • Forest policy on the anvil

    The Tamil Nadu Government will formulate a 'State Forest Policy' for management of forest resources, the Minister for PWD and Forests, Mr. Durai Murugan announced in the Assembly

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