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Poll-bound Tamil Nadu earmarks Rs 47,248 cr for agriculture in interim budget; agroforestry policy soonTamil Nadu's Agriculture Department receives Rs 47,248 crore in the Interim Budget for 2026-27. Farmer welfare schemes will continue. The g...
EAC-PM suggests deregulating timber cultivation; proposes measures to make India a net exporterThe Economic Advisory Council to the PM has recommended deregulating the felling and transit of high-value timber trees like Teak, Gurjan, ...
Karnataka forest minister halts leasing of forest land for iron ore mining in SandurKarnataka's Minister of Environment has halted the handover of a forest area to a mining company, citing concerns over the felling of over ...
Jharkhand High Court to hear maintainability of PIL seeking probe against CM Hemant Soren on June 1A division of bench of Chief Justice Ravi Ranjan and Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad while hearing the PIL filed by a person Shiv Shankar Shar...
Maharashtra: Locust swarms head towards Gondia, authorities alertedAn agriculture team rushed to Bhandara in the early hours of Thursday and sprayed pesticides with two fire tenders on trees in one-km radiu...
Mumbai's Aarey protests have rekindled the debate over India's forest coverProtests over the axing of more than 2,000 trees in Mumbai’s Aarey Colony to build a Metro shed have rekindled the debate over India’s fore...
Farmers can now grow and harvest trees in 128 taluks of KarnatakaA clarification to this effect from the state government has brought a big relief to farmers. They will only need transit passes if they wi...
Sandalwood, red sander timbers smuggled most: GovernmentThe Environment and Forest Minister said the government was open to suggestions for strengthening laws to curb illegal felling of valuable ...
'Glory of Allapalli' is Maharashtra's first biodiversity heritage siteOn March 28, 2013, the Maharashtra State Biodiversity Board (MSBB) in its fourth meeting had given in-principle approval to 'Glory of Allap...
- 35 teak trees felled by tampering reserve forest boundary in Bodhala
Being sold at a market price of Rs 50,000-70,000 per cubic metre, teak is the most sought-after forest produce.
- No saviour for Buxa tiger reserve
For Raju Karki (name changed) of Raimatang, one of the 12 villages dotting the core area of Buxa Tiger Reserve, sneaking into the forest on...
Trees, wildlife charred in northern Panna forest fireA fire that broke out in a forest in northern region of Panna district, about 15km from the tiger reserve, on Thursday is threatening the f...
Colour-banding may help save forest owletsAs many as 25 pairs of the critically endangered forest owlet , which is endemic to India, will be colour-banded to study their distributio...
- Maharashtra forests lose 13 lakh trees in 8 years
Over 13 lakh trees have been illegally cut in state-owned forests since 2005, depriving Maharashtra of its precious forest wealth.
- HC notice for NTCA and CZA over white tigers
The Madhya Pradesh high court has issued a notice to the National Tiger Conservation Authority and Central Zoo Authority in response to a p...
- Greens see timber mafia hand in protest against officer
Rahul has gone on leave after forest guards and anti-poaching watchmen drawn from the tribal community struck work on Monday seeking action...
How to arrest forest degradationThe policy process to arrest forest degradation needs to be modernised with up-to-date techniques & civil society participation that is tim...
- Gift a plant this Diwali
There are not many gifts that can be bought for less than Rs 50 that have the potential to turn into six-figure behemoths.
- In these villages of north Bengal, the forest dept stands in the way of justice
In 2006, Parliament passed an act conferring crucial rights on forest dwellers. The then Left Front government subverted this to deny 1.5 l...
- Myanmar's wild elephants help cut down their forest habitat
Elephants in Myanmar have long been invaluable labourers in the country's timber industry, nimbly finding their way through forests and dra...