BENGALURU: The bio-park of Bangalore University’s Jnanabharathi campus lost 36 sandalwood trees in slightly more than a year, a reply to an RTI query has revealed. Twenty-six of these were chopped and smuggled by miscreants in December 2017 alone. The 1,000-acre campus is home to the largest number of sandalwood …
An initiative taken up by the district administration along with other departments aims to discourage farmers from cultivating eucalyptus, a water-intensive species, which has adversely affected groundwater level in the region. Deputy Commissioner D.S. Vishwanath has formulated a plan to encourage farmers to cultivate sandalwood instead of eucalyptus, which would …
The State Forest Department, in a bid to create assets and popularise the concept of sandalwood estates, will take up the exercise of planting around 10 lakh sandalwood saplings in around 10,000 acres of forest land across the State. Addressing mediapersons here on Friday, Forest Minister C P Yogeeshwara said …
The State Forest Minister, Mr K.B. Ganesh Kumar, on Tuesday informed the State Assembly that plans are being worked out to insert microchips in sandalwood trees at Marayur, the only place in Kerala that has natural sandalwood forests. “Currently, we have to deploy 68 forest guards every night to see …
Protection of five river valley basins tops its agenda The Western Ghats Task Force has submitted a proposal to recruit 1,000 forest personnel required to protect the natural forests of the Western Ghats. This was announced by Ananth Hegde Ashisara, chairperson of the Task Force, at a meeting on the …
The Supreme Court has directed closure of all unauthorised sandalwood oil factories in the country and asked the Centre to formulate a suitable policy for conservation of sandalwood, particularly red sanders which is said to endangered. “We are giving this direction since it is reported that nowhere in the world, …
The High Court of Karnataka on Wednesday chided the Forest department for attempting to award ''huge'' punishment for a ''trivial'' offence. The Division Bench consisting Chief Justice Vikramjit Sen and Justice B V Nagarathna did not agree with the government advocate’s claim that Fayaz Khan, a resident of Channapatna, was …
Kannada movie on brigand’s life being shot inside elephant habitat violation: Crew members of ‘Attahaasa’ shooting in a forest in Chamarajanagar district. ‘Attahaasa’, a Kannada film based on slain forest brigand Veerappan, is again in the news for the wrong reasons. The movie by A M R Ramesh of ‘Cyanide’ …
Area selected for project is near tank that quenches animals’ thirst The State government’s initiative to restore the glory of ‘Gandhadagudi’ (abode of sandalwood) in the State through its ‘Siri Chandanavana’ project does not seem to be in order. While initiating the project, it has violated the norms for sanctuaries …
The State Forest department has decided to grow over 20 lakh sandalwood trees on 2,000 acres of land at a cost of Rs 50 crore in nine districts of the State. Forest Minister C P Yogeeshwara told mediapersons on Monday that the project, implemented in Mysore on a pilot basis, …
The 134.88 sq km area of Chincholi forest in Karnataka has now been declared South India’s first dryland wildlife sanctuary to protect the prime wolf and hyena habitat. The Karnataka State Forest Department notified the forest on November 28, marking another step by Karnataka to conserve prime wolf and hyena …
The Forest Department will shortly provide a revolving fund of Rs three lakh to each village forest committee across the State, under a Rs 1,100-crore special project, Forest Minister C P Yogeeshwara announced on Wednesday. The primary task of village forest committees (VFCs) is conserving, developing and managing natural forests …
Amid reports about smuggling of red sandalwood (Rakta Chandan) from India to China via Nepal, India has sought the Government of Nepal’s help in controlling the organised illegal trade. A senior official of the Department of Customs (DoC) said India has requested DoC through diplomatic channel. “India has requested us …
To make sandalwood cultivation viable for farmers, the ruling BJP Government in Karnataka is proposing to amend the Tree Act. According to State Forest Minister CH Vijayshankar, the proposed amendment is aimed at allowing farmers to grow sandalwood tree in their farms, own and sell them at the market price. …
J. Venkatesan New Delhi: Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia on Friday announced the setting up of an additional Forest Bench in the Supreme Court, to hear environment and mining-related cases. The CJI said,
Pune The Swargate police have arrested a group of five men for allegedly stealing a sandalwood tree from the premises of the Seventh Day Adventist Hospital in Salisbury Park. The arrests were made immediately after the watchman on duty informed the police control room at 4.30 in the morning on …
Administration has given about 7,000 community certificates to Scheduled Tribes in this hill in recent years TIRUVANNAMALAI: Tribal people of Jawadu hills should grow sandalwood in their lands to gain revenue as well as to contribute to the environment, Tamil Nadu Food Minister E.V. Velu said. Inaugurating two day summer …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Cantonment police on Friday registered a case after the Registrar of the Kerala University lodged a complaint that two sandalwood trees on the campus of the Kerala University Office were chopped off and smuggled out by some miscreants. According to the police, the trees were found to have …
