Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
The FRA 2010 Remote Sensing survey is a systematic, comprehensive, global study of tree cover and forest land-use changes from 1990 to 2000 to 2005. It presents a consistent methodology for monitoring forest change at a global level that can be expanded for more detailed studies. It is expected that …
Year 2010 will be celebrated as Bamboo Year by the Forest Department. The primary target has been set to plant about 3-crore bamboo plants in forest and other areas. Bamboo plantation will also be included in schemes as forestation and gardening, said Forest Minister Sartaj Singh. To achieve the target …
Malana (Kullu): The role of forest department has come under scanner as it has not lodged an FIR against Everest Power Private Limited (EPPL) that axed 364 trees and destroyed 115 bighas of forest area in the lush green Malana valley. The EPPL, which is executing the 100-MW Malana-II in …
Tirupur: Minister for Forests N. Selvaraj on Tuesday inspected Kulipatti in the district from where huge quantities of sandalwood were seized by the forest officials during the last fortnight in phases. He along with the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, A. S. Balanathan, examined how smugglers were able to cut …
The Centre has asked the state to speed up the implementation of Scheduled Tribe and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Rights) Act, meant to provide ownership rights to those who have been farming on forestland.
The woes of residents in buildings on private forest lands in and around the city just do not seem to end. The state forest department has failed to keep its promise to submit a full list of such buildings to the Supreme Court by November 1. Representatives of the Hillside …
The Community Forestry Program in Nepal is a global innovation in participatory environmental governance that encompasses well-defined policies, institutions, and practices. The program addresses the twin goals of forest conservation and poverty reduction. As more than 70 percent of Nepal
On the allegation of misappropriation of 167.980 tonnes of Sal seeds worth about Rs 2.94 lakh by falsifying the accounts and official records, a Vigilance case was registered against Ratnakar Das, a former Sectional Supervisor in charge of Nabarangpur Sal Seeds Central Godown, Golak Behari Barik, former Sectional Supervisor in …
Forest degradation is a serious environmental, social and economic problem, particularly in developing countries. Yet it is difficult to define and assess. Forest degradation is viewed and perceived differently by various stakeholders who have different objectives. It is technically and scientifically difficult to define and its definition can have policy …
Poor governance is a major impediment to achieving development outcomes of the forest sector. It results in losses of income, employment, government revenues, and local and global environmental services. However, at present, no comprehensive guide to reforming forest governance has been developed. Although usually it is relatively easy to recognize …
KARUR: Farmers must consider means of value addition for their produce to make agriculture a more viable venture. Bamboo cultivation is one such endeavour that could be gainfully carried on by the farming community in suitable places, according to District Collector J. Uma Maheswari. Inaugurating a seminar on bamboo cultivation …
This paper tries to understand, from an emic perspective, the different dimensions of social support among the Cholanaickan, a hunter-gatherer community of Kerala. It tries to understand why the support system extended by the state has ended as being perceived as a
LOOTING of the reserve forests in the Chittagong Hill Tracts has reached alarming proportions. The way the illegal loggers in collusion with some dishonest forest officials are depleting the forest resources of Rangamati has again become glaringly evident from a recent report in this paper. But one would again notice …
Coimbatore, Aug. 30 The Hosur-based Growmore Biotech has developed a bamboo variety called Beema that is rich in biomass yields. The high-yielding clone is thorn-less, thick-walled, non-flowering and responsive to field management practice.
THE term "sustainable development" seems to have reached a stage of sustainability after having been used for long. Sustainability is a word most suited, perhaps, for describing an ecosystem constituted of biota like plants, animals and microbes living in any area of the earth. But unfortunately, we -- the most …
JOWAI: Union Minister of State for Water Resources Development, Vincent H Pala inaugurated the Common Facility Centre (CFC) of the Women's Group Handicrafts Multi-purpose Cooperative Society at Madankynsaw (Moo-kyndeng) village in Jaintia Hills on Wednesday. Speaking on the occasion, Mr Pala assured all help and assistance to self help groups …
Pramod Kumar Aug. 18: The Orissa government has urged the Centre to deploy Central paramilitary forces in the state, especially to protect sanctuaries and national parks from the left wing extremists. Talking to this newspaper, Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik said, "There is a need to deploy Central security forces …
'It is our responsibility to protect the bio-diversity and forest resources,' said Zilla Panchayat President S N Rajarao. Zilla Panchayat President S N Rajarao handing over a sapling to Zilla Panchayat CEO Mirja Akbarulla as part of the inauguration of a one-day training programme on
New Delhi: In a giant leap towards making the Forest Rights Act effective, the environment ministry has informed states that it would not approve any forest clearance proposals till the consent of the gram sabhas has been sought for the projects The move, bound to come as a shocker to …
