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. …
Ratan K Pani PAIKMAL: Lack of rain has left residents of predominantly tribal block Paikmal high and dry. With irrigation still a mirage, the tribals depend on sale of non-timber forest produce (NTFP), mahua in particular, six months a year to eke out a living. For the rest part of …
ERODE: Officials from the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption have registered a case against a forest guard on graft charges. According to the police, Neela Megam, 45, a forest guard at the check post, near Thengumarahada, took bribes from the vehicles that passed through the check post. Unaccounted cash They …
The life of Jaunsaris, a tribal community of Jaunsar Bawar of Dehra Dun District, depends mainly on farming and forest resources. Farming in Jaunsar is of subsistence nature and heavily depending on rains. Therefore utilization of forest resources is the key for survival of the people of Jaunsar. This study …
Agriculture is part of the climate change problem, contributing about 13.5 percent of annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (with forestry contributing an additional 19 percent), compared with 13.1 percent from transportation. Agriculture is, however, also part of the solution, offering promising opportunities for mitigating GHG emissions through carbon sequestration, soil …
B. Chandrashekhar ANANTAPUR: Iron ore mining continues in Obulapuram and H. Siddapuram villages amid confusion prevailing over the letter written by the Forest Conservation Division of Union Ministry of Environment directing the State government to suspend five mining leases till clear demarcation of boundaries is finalised. A week after the …
Mumbai The state government on Wednesday moved the Bombay High Court to clear some technical hurdle regarding coastal regulation rules for the proposed international airport coming up at Navi Mumbai. Advocate General Ravi Kadam submitted that the state was having difficulties in getting clearance from the Ministry of Environment and …
Manjunath Sullolli The Bhimgad Fort, in the village lands of Tanali, is built on a detached spur of the Sahyadris about sixteen miles south-west of Khanapur taluk of Belgaum district.
Birur police have seized teak wood worth Rs 50,000, smuggled from a plantation belonging to one Lokeshappa at Aladahalli near Hogarehalli in Birur on Monday. Seven people have been arrested in this regard. Kodihalli Murthy, Thimmaiah, Lingadahalli Babu, Papanaik, Shankarnaik, Kumara Naik, Murali together cut the teak trees from the …
BONGAIGAON, April 20: Sahastra Seema Bal (SSB), Ministry of Home Affairs, engaged in guarding the Indo-Bhutan international border conducted a patrolling and seized huge quantities of timber of about 8,000 cubit feet worth Rs 4 lakh after receiving specific information, stated a press release.The booty was seized in a place …
Experts at a workshop yesterday called for expanding government and non-government partnership to build collaboration for protecting the Royal Bengal Tigers in the Sundarbans. Joint cooperation among the stakeholders, especially the government and local NGOs, is necessary for conserving tigers to maintain the ecosystem of the world's largest salt-tolerant mangrove …
Pakistan is deficient in forest resources, as only 5 percent of total geographical area of the country is under forest cover and that, too, is under pressure due to various factors, including use of forest lands for non-forestry purposes and illegal logging. This was stated by Federal Minister for Environment, …
Jim Corbett is held in great esteem in India as a compassionate man who had exceptional environmental awareness. A closer look however shows that this image is misleading and that he was in fact a fully paid-up imperialist. The continuance of the Corbett myth is indicative of our failure to …
The gang, in association with other gangs, cut sandalwood trees from the Kallapuram forest area in Udumalpet and smuggled them to Kerala } THE police arrested two sandalwood smugglers and seized 730 kg of sandalwood worth Rs 11 lakh, besides a van costing Rs 5 lakh in the wee hours …
Akshaya Kumar Sahoo More than 10 million tribals in Orissa depend upon forests as a source of non-timber forest produce for sustenance IT WAS A dew-drenched December morning. The winter was at its peak. The picturesque Rayagada town on the borders of Andhra Pradesh and Orissa was wearing a beautiful …
Forests and women are strongly interconnected with each other because women, particularly those living in rural areas or mountain areas, have a deep relationship with the forest ecology because they are responsible for gathering food, fuel, fodder, leaves and water for the family. Hence, women directly play an important role …
Natural resources perform multiple functions as a driver, maintainer, potential exit route, and also an effective escape mechanism in the context of poverty dynamics, especially in a predominantly agrarian economy such as India. The discourse on poverty reduction however, has often overlooked some of the major concerns of natural resource …
V NarayanaMurthi | ENS Vellore, THE two-and-a-half acre sandalwood godown at Tirupattur, considered to be the biggest in Asia and maintained by the Tirupattur Forest Division, will install hightech surveillance system to protect its 600 tonne stock of sandalwood and red sanders, wor th crores of rupees. The Rs 3-lakh …
The FRA provides an opportunity to resolve a number of issues that have plagued forest management in India for decades. THE Scheduled Tribes and Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, or Forest Rights Act (FRA) in short, was heavily debated right from its inception up to its …
Dismisses PIL Saying It Will Not Allow Haryana To Become A Desert Dhananjay Mahapatra | TNN New Delhi: A day before Haryana auctions mining leases, many of which fall within the eco-sensitive Aravali zone, the Supreme Court sent a stern warning to the government: It will not tolerate any mining …
Using the latest forest inventory, this article provides a detailed analysis of China's changing forest sector by focusing on new forest trends, forest policy changes, and challenges to achieving a sustainable forest management. The authors analyze the dynamics of forest resources and provide an impact assessment of forest policies on …
