The board has also approved Rs 600 hike in land compensation for direct purchase of flood zone land along Yamuna and Hindon river in Noida.

In a first in the conservation history of the state, tribal development funds amounting to Rs 7.4 crore will be transferred to the forest d...

Nauradehi has been found most suitable for the cheetah given that its forests are not dense to restrict the fast movement of the spotted an...

AP Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution requesting National Board of Wildlife and the Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Commit...

Shejwar said many states, including Madhya Pradesh, are not in favour of implementing the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation Act-2013.

The CPI leader said the left party would intensity its agitation further if CBI investigation was not ordered into all the scams.

The proposal for diverting sanctuary land for the canal project will be taken up at the first meeting of the newly-formed standing committe...

Interestingly, the first meeting of the reconstituted board comes ahead of Lok Sabha elections in April-May.

One year after the villagers of Mor Dungri - who resisted moving out of the Ranthambhore sanctuary for 40 years - relocated to their new vi...

Tamil Nadu government today proposed setting up a butterfly park in chief minister J Jayalalithaa's constituency Srirangam.

Sunderbans, the largest mangrove forests on earth, would be brought in the world tourism map and a task force had been created for the purp...

The union environment ministry has earmarked a Rs 50 crore project for the upkeep of greater Gir area on the periphery of the sanctuary - a...

Forest Rights Act seeks to secure tribals, but latest guidelines seek outright eviction or regulation of even day-to-day activities by a ba...

Despite the fact that India's forests have fragmented and turned into islands in a sea of development, elephants have managed to stride the...

The environment ministry has set up a seven-member panel to study a proposal to reduce the size of wetland areas around the Kolleru lake sa...

Government has offered a rehabilitation scheme hiking the compensation package ten times from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 10 lakh each to village famil...

The notification of the law, known more commonly as the Tribal Act, would lead to the grant of land rights to tribals and other traditional...