Amazon bill approved
A Brazilian congressional commission on Wednesday approved a bill that environmentalists say could accelerate destruction of the Amazon jungle, the world's largest tropical forest, if it becomes law. The commission voted 13:2 in favour of the bill.
HFDCL efforts to make Haryana green
The Haryana Forest Development Corporation Limited(HFDCL),since its inception on 7th December 1989, has given a boost to farmers and tree growers by providing a remunerative price of their trees. It has also been promoting the farm forestry by supplying popular trees for raising on their farmland.
Timber worth millions being lost for lack of policy
Nepalis are barred from collecting wood carried by flooded Karnali river due to lack of proper policy making Nepal's loss as India's gain.Every year timber worth millions of rupees washed down from Nepal is collected by the Indians living along the border areas.
Matter of concern
The report of illegal sale of wood by forest department officials from the Bandipur National Park is a matter of serious concern. According to reports, dead and fallen wood worth lakhs of rupees was removed and auctioned off last year on specious grounds by officials.
ISS wings begin power generation
NASA officials breathed a collective sigh of relief after feverishly working to create a plan that successfully unfurled the second of the International Space Station's (ISS) giant solar wings. Both the wings are now producing elecricity for the space station.
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 complete surprise.
Govt to ban illegal sawmills
The state government will ban about 1000 illegal saw mills in the state to prevent deforestation. These saw mills built after 1996, do not have the necessary licences issued by the state forest department. Hundreds of people working in these mills will be jobless, said a forest department official.
Assembly passes Forest Bill
The Legislative Assembly today passed the Karnataka Forest (Amendment) Bill 2001, which provides for removing restrictions on cultivation of sandalwood in private land and to encourage public to grow sandalwood in their lands. The bill is also said to be an effort to fight sandalwood smuggling by simplifying the procedures …
Govt planning to grant settlement in forest areas
The State Forest Department is contemplating to grant settlement in forest areas to prevent more destruction of forests in the State, besides adopting a comprehensive forest policy to keep the forests intact through joint participation, said Forest Minister G C Langthasa here today.
Punjab government to amend Forest Act
The Punjab government in Pakistan has decided to amend the Forest Act 1927 so as to make it in conformity with the modern requirements of the conservation of forests in the province. For this purpose, a committee comprising two conservators of the Forest Department, Dr Muhammad Arshad and Dr Muhammad …
Concern over depletion of forest cover
The District Forest Officer, Mr. Manoj Kumar Sarcar, has expressed concern over the depleting forest resources and called upon the public, particularly the student community, to involve themselves in the campaigns to increase the forest cover.
Poachers eat into State's forest ; projects of no use
Even as the Andhra Pradesh government is busy assessing the successful results of phase-I of the Andhra Pradesh Forestry project, it has been estimated that green cover worth over Rs. 900 crore has been lost to poachers in the last six years. Forest officials agree that what the department lost …
Govt. to move Centre on unauthorized cultivation
The State government will soon write to the Centre to ascertain whether there is any provision to regularize unauthorized cultivation on forest and peripheral land that was taken up between 1978-1989, Forest Minister K H Ranganath told the Legislative Council on Thursday
Now, a cow cloned in Taiwan
Taiwan's first cloned calf was successfully delivered at the weekend, a top scientist said Monday. The calf named 'Hsubao', meaning 'Livestock Treasure', was born on Saturday on a farm in the southern country of Tainan.
Chipko villages oppose power project through Tehri forests
Villagers who participated in the Chipko movement of the seventies are up in arms again as thousands of trees are reportedly being cut so that two corridors of high tension transmission lines to carry power from the Tehri Hydro-electric project to Meerut can be constructed.
A classic case of fence eating crops in State
The official protectors of the forests - the State forest department - violating the rule of law have sold dead and fallen wood worth lakhs of rupees at the Bandipur National Park last year.
U.S. halts logging in the Sierra Nevada
The United States Forest Service is temporarily prohibiting timber sales and logging on 11 million acres of national forests in the Sierra Nevada.The three-month suspension includes an area equal to 17,200 square miles that stretches from the Sequoia National Forest north of Los Angeles, along the mountains past Yosemite National …
State forest dept flouting SC stay on bamboo felling
The Gujarat forest department has been violating a Supreme Court stay order by cutting vast tracts of bamboo from the core forest areas of Shulpaneshwar and Purna wildlife sanctuaries and supplying them to a paper mill.
