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 …
THE Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed the Kerala Forest (Amendment) Bill, 2008. The Bill, w h i c h was referred to the Subject Committee, has been recommended to be adopted with certain modifications. In his reply to the discussions, Forest Minister Benoy Viswom told the Assembly that the Government …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed the Kerala Forest (Amendment) Bill which seeks to impose severe restrictions on sale of sandalwood. The Bill seeks to specify that none should cut down sandalwood trees on their land without previous permission from an authorised officer. It also seeks to prohibit possession …
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 …
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 …
Pune A resident of Charoli has alleged that Vishrantvadi police have been harassing him for the past two weeks because he dared to take on a PCMC contractor who according to him is responsible for uprooting five sandalwood and other fruit trees at his farmhouse in Charoli while building a …
KRISHNAGIRI: A forest watcher was injured in firing by an unidentified gang in the reserve forests near Krishnagiri, bordering Andhra Pradesh, in the early hours of Sunday. A gang suspected to be involved in poaching small animals and smuggling sandalwood from the reserve forests was spotted by forest watchers and …
Three sandalwood smugglers have been arrested and 343 kg of sandalwood billets valued at Rs 7.50 lakh,seized from them near here, police said today. Hamid Khan, his wife Yasmeen Khanum and Syed Amjad Khan,who were arrested yesterday, are natives of Bangalore, Superintendent of Police Dr P S Harsha told reporters …
A petition seeking directions to revive the glory of sandalwood production in the State came up for hearing in the High Court on Wednesday. The petitioner, C H Basappanavar, a former chief conservator of forest in his PIL has sought directions to create special sandalwood production divisions in each of …
K.S. Sudhi KOCHI: The number of sandalwood trees has gone up in the Marayur sandalwood division. The latest estimate is that the division has 58,514 trees, 747 more than the 57,767 three years ago, according to forest officials. Only trees having a girth of 30 cm at
S Praveen Dhaneshkar, Bangalore,DH News Service: Hidden from the public glare, the City-based Army Service Corps (ASC) Centre and College (South) has set an example in eco-preservation by converting its sprawling 720 acre campus on HAL airport road into a home for as many as 5,000 sandalwood trees, a variety …
Sreenivas Janyala Posted: Friday , Jun 05, 2009 at 0134 hrs IST Hyderabad: Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy on Thursday pulled up Forest Department officials over reports of rampant felling and smuggling of red sanders (red sandal wood) trees from the state
'Sandalwood is a tree that values more than gold. It should not become another vanilla,' opined District Horticulture Department Deputy Director B N Prasad. He was speaking after inaugurating
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 …
R. Rajaram TIRUCHI: The State Government has formulated rules under the Tamil Nadu Forest Act, 1882 to encourage private owners grow more sandal trees in their lands besides laying down the procedures to be followed for felling and disposal of such trees to the government. The
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 …
Dec. 18: In a glaring breach of security at a defence establishment, five sandalwood poachers armed with lethal weapons entered the Air Force Technical College campus in Jalahalli on Wednesday night. An IAF man on guard duty, Lance Naik Amarik Singh, shot one of poachers when the intruders attempted to …
