The Bikaner Development Authority Bill, 2025
<p>The Bikaner Development Authority Bill, 2025, passed by the Rajasthan Assembly, aims to establish a Bikaner Development Authority to regulate development activities in the Bikaner district. The bill
Land Use
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Transparency in Nepal’s forest sector: a baseline assessment of legal indicators, provisions, and practices
Forest sector governance is not always easy to define and is even harder to measure. This report, commissioned by LFP, has tried to quantify transparency in Nepal’s forest sector in a way that follows
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Master plan for Port Blair planning area – 2030
In an effort towards the planned and sustainable development of Port Blair town and the surrounding villages which are environmentally sensitive and ecologically fragile, the Hon’ble Lt. Governor has approved
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A review of methods to measure and monitor historical carbon emissions from forest degradation
In the absence of historical field data, developing countries can rely on consistent current ground data and remote sensing assessments.
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Understanding forest degradation in Nepal
A rich experience in ground-based inventory provides a solid basis for a multi-method approach to measuring forest degradation.
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Global forest land-use change from 1990 to 2005: initial results from a global remote sensing survey
A new satellite-based survey released by the FAO provides a more accurate picture of changes in the world's forests, showing forest land use declined between 1990 and 2005. The findings of a global remote
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The state of the world’s land and water resources for food and agriculture: managing systems at risk – summary report
<p><span id="itro1">FAO's first flagship publication on global status of land & water resources profiles the state of the natural resource base upon which world food production depends.</span></p>
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Epiphytic orchid diversity in farmer-managed Soppinabetta forests of Western Ghats: implications for conservation
Conservation of biodiversity in managed landscapes is of critical importance due to the rapid degradation and loss of primary habitat in the tropics. Soppinabetta forests are farmer-managed, fragmented
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EU Biofuel Target Seen Driving Species Loss: Study
A European Union target to promote the use of biofuels will accelerate global species loss because it encourages the conversion of pasture, savanna and forests into new cropland, EU scientists have warned.
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L-G promises probe into government land scam
Also orders re-examination of issuance of provisional certificates to colonies which existed only on paper A day after Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit ordered a probe into the alleged scam in which government
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Rajasthan guarantees most services within days
Gehlot launches Guaranteed Delivery of Public Services Act, 2011 The Rajasthan Government on Monday launched its ambitious guaranteed delivery of public services as the day coincided with the 122{+n}{+d}birth