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Forests

  • HP plan to check forest fires

    Having suffered considerable damage to ecology due to forest fires this summer, the Himachal government is working on a plan to control such fires in future. Mr Roop Singh Thakur, Himachal Forest

  • 22 lakh trees to be planted this year

    The Delhi government has embarked upon an ambitious plan of planting over 22 lakh trees during 1999-2000 to conserve the green cover in the

  • HC stays order on Gir farmers' plea

    Justice A M Kapadia of Gujarat High Court has stayed the operation of the order of the assistant district judge of Junagadh allowing the appeal of the farmers for having possession of 106 acres of

  • Afforestation program for protecting Yellow River

    More than 4,000 youngsters from north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region were organized to plant pine trees along both banks of the Yellow river at weekends, said local sources. The effort is

  • Haze alert

    It is getting uncomfartably warm again. Forests are burning across Southeast Asia, threatening to send a new blanket of haze across the region. In the past two months, "hot spots" have been

  • Plant clones spread viruses due to poor quality control

    Saplings micropropagated in India have no takers abroad as biotech labs do not test clones for viruses.The issue was discussed at the national seminar on biotechnological applications in Pune last

  • Survey

    forest cover has stablised : The Himachal Pradesh government plans to bring at least 50 per cemt of the state's geographical area under forests. A survey has revealed that the forest cover in the

  • Human chain to save trees

    Hundreds of people linked arms in a human chain to protest a Government plan to fell trees in a park and build a conference centre."We will give our blood, but we won't let the trees be cut," chanted

  • Sikkim forests are threatened by timber racket

    The lush coniferous forests and brisk mountin streams taht turn this remote valley in northeastern Indi into a picture perfent conderland every summer will soon be a memory thanks to unchecked tree

  • Tendu leaves collection in full flow

    The work of Tendupatta collection which took off from this very month is in full flow. This is a type of providing seasonal employment to the people in village areas. The work of collection in

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