Mafia terrorises forest staff
The timber mafia's recent attacks on forest guards posted inside the Sanjay Gandhi National Park have demoralised all forest officials, Deputy Conservator of Forests A R Bharati has
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A 'losing battle ' against vanishing forests
The Assam Forest Department is fighting a 'losing battle' against the fast depleting forest cover in the state. The Principal Chief conservator of Forest, Mr P Lahon, told the Statesman that the
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Fires rage in Orissa's forests
A fire is raging in scattered patches over at least 1,000 square kilometers of Orissa's forest area, state forest chief BK Mishra has said. The state has 27 territorial forest divisions and fires
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Our shrinking forests
What can happen through decades of looting of our forest wealth is now glaringly evident from the extent of forest cover that Assam is left with. The forest cover of Assam has shrunk to a mete 21
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Forest development agency mooted
The Ministry of Environment and Forests has mooted setting up Forest Development Agency along the lines of DRDA (District Rural Development Authority).Funds from the Centre for forests and wildlife
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Bitterroot settlement saves thousands of forest acres
The U.S. Forest Service agreed to remove 27,000 acres of roadless old growth forest and sensitive fish habitat from a planned logging project in the Bitterroot National Forest in Montana. The
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2,000 illegally built huts demolished
More than 2,000 huts built illegally on various forest areas, have been demolished, forest officials in Taulihawa, Nepal said. The squatters had encroached low growth forest areas for the last couple
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Scam in Forest Dept alleged
Thee Janglat Forest Workers Union, Punjab, claims to have exposed a forest scam involving misappropriation of more than Rs 4 crore in the Pathankot forest division during 2000-2001. Chief adviser
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UN report says forest cover in India depleting
The area under forests has virtually stopped declining in the last decade but the quality of forest cover continues to deteriorate in India.the quality of forest cover, is indicated by the
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Forestry programme
States still following old guidelines: Though the Ministry of Environment & forest (MoEF) took a decade to revise guidelines on Joint Forest Management (JFM) as part of its review of the forest
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Management of non-wood forest produce stressed
Non-wood forest produce (NWFP) holds immense potential for income generation among communities in and around forests, environment and forests minister T R Baalu said
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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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Punjab to introduce 'green panchayats'
Having lowest forest cover in the country, Punjab has introduced a concept of "green panchayats " to promote social forestry and forest cover in the state. Punjab has forest cover which is less than
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Govt told to shut illegal saw mills
The Supreme Court has asked the ministry of environment and forests to close down illegal saw mills in the reserved forest and suspend licences of units that carry out non-forest activities. The
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783 sq km of NE forest cover depleted in three years
The spectre of mass depletion of forest cover looms large over the north eastern region. According to official reports in the past three years, the dense forest cover and the open forest cover had
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Maharashtra govt seals water park for violating Forest Act
The Nishiland Water Park near Khalapur on the Mumbai-Pune road has been sealed for violation of the Forest Conservation Act. The Forest Department has alleged that the Forest Conservation Act was
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Bumthang
preserving its pine forests : Bumthang's forestry sector is stepping up its efforts to preserve its blue pine forests from forest fires through a series of village based farmer trainings. Last year
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Forest management plan in Uttar Pradesh
A large-scale joint forest management (JFM) programme has been undertaken by the Uttar Pradesh forest department with assitance from the World Bank in the Kempty village region of Mussoorie's forest
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Strict norms for forest management
The High-power standing committee on forest management has laid down strict regulatory norms for a joint forest management (JFM) committee to extend its activity into 'good forest' areas. Such
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The reds turn green in Vietnam
Vietnam, one of Asia's least-forested countries, if not the least-forested, is racing against time to stop the decline of its forests and restore its tree cover. And the task is not easy. The country