Over the past decade, the forest area has witnessed an increase from 17.2% in 2011 to 21.6% in 2021. Additionally, the forest protected are...

Forest Man of India Jadav Payeng highlighted the importance of planting sandalwood trees for their environmental and economic value in IIM ...

NDMC official Kuljeet Singh Chahal said in an interview that a total of 1,000 saplings of red and white sandalwood trees would be planted i...

After the university barred entry for the public from 6 pm to 6 am earlier this year, smuggling of sandalwood and teak trees and other ille...

The govt has committed to spend Rs 5 cr to set up a foundation named after novelist Poornachandra Tejaswi and another Rs 5 crore on a Fores...

Siddaramaiah announced that tree parks -- named after environmentalist Saalumarada Thimmakka -- will be established in every assembly const...

A total of 445 Indians, most of them fishermen, are currently lodged in jails in Pakistan, the Rajya Sabha was informed today.

Red sanders is a big revenue earner for Andhra Pradesh. The state earned over Rs 1,000 crore from auctioning the wood last year.

Making a suo motu statement in the Assembly today, Jayalalithaa said incidents of human-wildlife conflict continued to occur in many parts ...

The Environment and Forest Minister said the government was open to suggestions for strengthening laws to curb illegal felling of valuable ...

Andhra Pradesh may sell about 3,000 tonne of red sandalwood through a global auction, earning Rs 500 cr, seized from smugglers.

Far removed from the traditional sickle-carrying uneducated bunch, these laptop-totting modern agriculturalists are mostly suave techies.

Starting as a king's whim to becoming a state enterprise that faced post-reforms bankruptcy and now a viable PSU, Mysore Sandal's manufactu...

It’s a green revolution of sorts in the arid regions of Warangal district.

A gang attacked a Forest Range Officer and a policeman and freed an accused in a sandalwood smuggling case at Marayoor near here today whil...

“In this respect, a good man is like a sandalwood tree that imparts its fragrance even to the axe that is striking it down.”

Veerappan's exit has made little difference to the prized forests of Karnataka.