Saving trees works locally, not nationally - report
Preserving a tropical rain forest by promoting tourism instead of logging works well on the local and global level, but logging is more profitable for a nation as a whole, researchers said. An experiment in Madagascar, known for its forests full of rare species threatened by logging, showed that locals …
Cambodia to prosecute Malaysian logging firm
Cambodia has filed its first charges against a private company for illegal logging, Cambodian Forestry Director Ty Sokun said on Saturday. The government has accused GAT International Co Ltd of Malaysia of illegally cutting logs worth nearly $105,000 within its own and another company's concession areas in the Cardomom Mountains …
Virbhadra
lift ban on khair tree export : Mr Virbhadra Singh, a senior Congress leader and former HP Chief Minister has demanded immediate lifting of ban of export of khair trees from state in order to help the local farmers. "The existing policy of selling khair trees to only local units …
Deforestation, big threat to medicinal plants
Shrinking forest cover and over-harvesting are taking their toll on traditional medicinal plants, with the Government putting 29 such species, believed to be on the verge of extinction - in the 'negative' list.
Pilot porject for drinking water in Assam
The Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department has taken up a pilot project on drinking water supply in collaboration with the Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Commission (RGNDWC), to provide drinking water in the districts of Kamrup, JOrhat and Sonitpur, official sources at Guwahati said.
After service to nation, they move to afforestation
For the Bhatti Mines are, pitted and scarred by stone quarrying for decades, there is hope, courtsey some "part-time soldiers". The Territorial Army is raising a battalion of troops - mostly ex-servicemen - to plant trees in the area that trees were cut down years ago by illegal stone quarrying …
Digvijay plans to submit report to SC
The declaration given by the Supreme Court banning felling of trees in September 1999 is proving to be a very costly proposition for villagers who live on periphery of forests and depend on the trees for their livelihood.Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh has decided to submit a report in …
Rise of population hits tree farming on private land
The tree farming on private land in Chttagong (Bangladesh) is now subjected to intense pressure due to rapid rise of population. According to forest department, the indiscriminate logging by the people has been rendering at least five thousand acres of private forestry barren of trees alone in Chittagong district every …
Plan panel for integrated approach towards forests
The Planning Commission has proposed an integrated management approach to conserve natural resources like water, soil, biodiversity and forests, alongside a well-organised monitoring and evaluation process.
Afforestation programme begins in Ctg
Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) and British American Tobacco Company (BATC) Ltd jointly began a month-long afforestation programme in the port of Chittagong, Bangladesh.
G-8 to call for forest protection
The Group of Eight major nations will issue a special document emphasizing their continued support for efforts to preserve the world's forests, which are rapidly being destroyed, government officials said Wednesday. The document will be issued either at the G-8 summit in Okinawa Prefecture (Japan) on July 22, when the …
Bangladesh takes up $77 mln forest project
Bangladesh yesterday said it had launched a $77 million project to improve management of Sundarban mangrove forest on the country's south bordering India. Officials of the Department of Forests said work on the project began last April after the Sundarban was declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations …
Pioneer bill clears scrutiny reading
The Community Forest Bill was passed in Thailand in the first reading for scrutiny yesterday.The legislation came in six drafts, one of them the first to have been proposed by 50,000 eligible voters. Central to the bill is permission for forest reserves to be declared community forests. The dual status …
Wildfires blaze across Europe
Hundreds of wildfires burned across southern Europe on Tuesday as the region remined in the grip of a heat wave that has driven temperatures as high as 120 degrees. In the Balkans, the sizzling temperatures accompanied the worst drought to strike the region in 50 years, which has already caused …
Imported timber hits local market
The unrestricted import of timber under the open general licence (OGL) scheme has started affecting the domestic produce market. Over the past two years, not only the prices of various species of indigenous timber had registered a steep fall, but the offtake had also been on the decline. The domestic …
18,210 hectares to be covered under IWDP in valley
More than 18,210 hectares of agricultural and forest land would be covered under the Integrated Watershed Development Project (IWDP) Hills-II in Jammu and Kashmir at a cost of Rs 60.60 crore during the current financial year.
Maheshwar project in jeopardy
German assistance for the construction of the Maheshwar hydroelectric project on the Narmada in Khargone district of Madhya Pradesh is in a jeopardy following an adverse report by a three-member team which was commissioned by the Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development of the Government of Germany.
Importers of timber may move court
Timber importers association have threatened to move court if the government did not revoke the notification charging an inspection fee of Rs 600 per tonne for imported timber.
Govt. to go ahead with legislation
Minister: The Forest Minister, Mr. C.K. Nanu has said the Government would go ahead with its commitment to introduce new legislation for protecting the existing forests in the State.
