<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Assam: PCCF MK Yadava accused of illegally clearing protected forest for Commando Battalion" appearing in the Northeast
With the Karnataka State Government glued to the Cauvery issue and the Veerappan menace, the recent large-scale felling of timber in the Nagarahole National Park is being covered up - slowly, but
The move by Jammu Development Authority to devastate Lala Hans Raj Park at Denis Gate, the only green lung left in the winter capital, needs to be resisted by all those who are keen to arrest growing
In a name of saving trees, some 1.5 million adivasis are in danger of being evicted from their homes even though the forests they live in have survived primarily because of the protection provided by
Despite spending crores of rupees for improving forest cover, development of community forests as also the Rajiv Tiger project during the past 10 years, there has been a reduction in the extent of
The World Bank has deferred financing of the Rs 1,177 crore Jharkhand social forestry project, following intense lobbying by tribal leaders who want such finances stalled till all institutions
Inspired by the overwhelming success of community forestry in hills and mid-hills of Nepal, the government is working on a policy to give dense forest of Terai to local communities for management,
The fate of the Jharbari reserve forests in Kokrajhar district of Assam, is in doldrums due to the large scale deforestation, thanks to the negligence of the state forest department. The Jharbari
As per India's national forest policy, 33 per cent of the total land area should be under the forest cover. However, only 19 per cent is what we have achieved in the past 54 years of Independence.
A Japanese project on bio-diversity and forest conservation in Rajasthan, held up for nearly four years after Pokhran-II, is finally materialising. The Rs 443 crore project to be funded by the Japan
Though officially, 1273 hectares just over one per cent of the total reserved forest area in South Gujarat has been recorded as new encroachments this, and nearly 612 hectares evacuated as on
