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  • Forest plan with carrot

    The West Bengal forest department has drawn up a list of projects to develop forests in South and North Bengal. The effort is to engage people living close by in the schemes and ensure that they do

  • NDDB chief now rallies to the rescue of forests

    Ringing the alarm bells on ecological security once again was Amrita Patel, chairman, National Dairy Development Board. "The re-forested uplands should be declared inviolate and designated National

  • Time running out for Burma's forests

    Western environmentalists warn that northernmost Burma's remaining forest will all be gone within a few years if current rates of clear-cutting continue. Unchecked logging could have severe long-term

  • Spy in the sky to protect rainforest

    The Amazon, one of the world's remaining wilderness areas, is about to get a long-awaited aerial monitoring system to help protect the Brazilian rainforest against illegal exploitation. In the next

  • 2.6 lakh teak plants for Sircilla farmers

    Keeping in view the scanty rainfall in the district this year, the Forest department of Andhra Pradesh, on an experimental basis, has decided to distribute 2.6 lakh teak saplings to the farmers of

  • Australian Assistance for forest conservation

    The Australian Government's Community Forest Conservation and management assistance will be user-oriented and it will focus on poverty alleviation activities in accordance with the objectives of the

  • Tree felling banned

    Incensed by the mindless felling of trees in the Andaman and Nicobar islands for developmental work, the Supreme Court on Wednesday slapped a ban on the island administration from cutting any tree in

  • Clerics pitch for green Lucknow

    While the world debates over the Taliban brand of Islam, Muslim clerics in Lucknow have taken the lead in planting saplings of "Quranic trees" to project a hitherto unknown face of Islam : its

  • WB aid for afforestation to cover degraded forest land

    Andhra Pradesh State Chief conservator of forests K Subba Rao on Monday said about three lakh hectares of land would be covered under afforestation in the state, with an aid of Rs 700 crore from the

  • SC directive, Forest Dept recommendation ignored

    The Kerala State Government has submitted to the High Court that it would not like to repromulgate the Kerala Forest Ordinance (Vesting and Management of Ecologically Fragile Forest Lands) by

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