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. …
Gangtok: The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is all set to pump in around Rs 318 crore for an ambitious integrated project for sustainable development of forest resources in Sikkim. JICA, the largest donor for forestry related projects in India, is preparing the final draft of the fund for the …
TEZPUR: The Sonitpur district administration has initiated move to allot title certificates to the Scheduled Tribes, forest-dwellers and other traditional forest-dwellers under Forests Right Act, 2006 (FRA-2006). In connection with this agenda of the district administration here, altogether 3121 ST forest dwellers, including 58 public institutions, such as schools and …
Tirupati, Jan. 11: The minister for forests and environment, Dr P. Ramachandra Reddy, on Monday said that the department would spend Rs 75 crore by March 2010 as part of the ongoing mechanism to protect the forest cover in the state. Inaugurating the regional conference of the forest department, consisting …
PARADIP: The rehabilitation and periphery development advisory committee (RPDAC) meeting for the Rs 54,000 crore Posco steel plant will be organised in the last week of this month. This was decided at a meeting held earlier this week between the district administration and Posco officials. It was presided over by …
ITANAGAR, Jan 10: Thanks to the persuasiveness of Governor Gen (Retd) J J Singh that Arunachal Pradesh would move a step ahead in equipping its farmers with expertise to mint money from bamboo, which is abundant in the lush forests of the state. National Bamboo Mission (NBM) Director Dr Gorakh …
This report builds on the initiatives of the Asia Forest Partnership and East Asia and Pacific FLEG to promote cooperation among Customs, Forestry and other authorities to reduce the trade of illegal wood products. The goal of this review is to assist Customs and timber trade regulating agencies in their …
Forest and tree resources are managed in different types of systems that are characterized by varying management intensity and range from primary natural forests to productive industrial plantations. A number of factors shape global opportunity, condition investment decisions and drive research priorities for forest biotechnology - they also underline important …
Biodiversity is declining seriously on a global scale, underscoring the importance of conservation planning. Except protected areas and reserve forests, scientific studies on biodiversity of special habitats in India are meager like the other areas of the world. Furthermore, extensive surveys of biodiversity have not been conducted for a majority …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Forest Minister Binoy Viswam has said that the LDF Government had succeeded in checking sandalwood theft from Marayur forest range. At present there are 58,418 sandal trees in this forest range and steps have been taken to monitor the situation on a day-to-day basis, he said while speaking to …
KOHIMA, Dec 24: Forest Department officials have seized huge quantity of red sandalwood from a truck bound for Manipur. Official sources here today said the Forest officials stopped a truck at the New Field Check Gate at Dimapur last night, which was coming from Kolkata, loaded with tonnes of barbed …
ADILABAD, Dec. 21: The demand for setting up forest stations on the lines of police station in complicated forest sections such as Dedra, Voipet and Sirichelma is gaining ground to control teakwood smuggling and the felling of trees, both of which are rampant in the district. Forest staff at Itchoda …
Adilabad, Dec. 20: A forest beat officer S. Manthya Naik 's sacrifice to protect the forest from professional teak wood smugglers Multanis went unnoticed, amid the the excitement created by the climate change conference in Copenhagen preventing various kinds of emissions which affects climate, worldwide. Manthya Naik was a forest …
KOHIMA, Dec 10: With the use of bamboo gaining prominence in the State, it appears the Nagaland Government is looking for more and better ways to exploit one of its richest resources. Contributing five per cent out of the 65 per cent of India
Forests provide grasses and tree leaves for livestock. However, for hilly population, livestock rearing mechanism and food production systems are closely integrated in the forest ecosystem i.e. forest provide feed and fodder, while in return livestock supply draught power and manure as well as milk and meat as a source …
The dominant mode of business practice in the African forest sector - especially in the high forest cover regions - comes in the form of concessionaires operating on publicly held lands.
Joint Forest Management (JFM), the partnership between the Government Forest Department and forest-fringe community (organised through the Forest Protection Committees (FPCs) towards Forest Protection, had its inception in the state of West Bengal and is considered to be the most successful in this state. Bankura (North) Division, being part of …
Exploiting Natural Resources: Growth, Instability, and Conflict in the Middle East and Asia presents views on the unsustainable exploitation of three key natural resources - forests, water, and extractable minerals - from the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia. The regional experts and Stimson analysts discuss the current patterns of …
