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WHILE THE focus for this year’s Earth Day celebrations was on the elimination of plastics pollution, Jamaica’s Forestry Department and its partners made it their mission to plant trees. The agency has been engaged in ongoing efforts to improve the...

Then came the changes last year, which, according to petitioners who challenged the law, if allowed to operate, would result in declassification of over 197,000 square kilometres of forests | Latest News India

Under the amended Forest Conservation Act, the Court exempted zoo and safari from the long list of non-forestry activities | Latest News India

The Centre in an affidavit submitted in the Supreme Court said that the amendments to the Forest Act do not dilute the wider meaning of forests defined by the Supreme Court in a 1996 order | Latest News India

Delhi government has gone back on its promises to check city's pollution. Instead of owning up to its failure, it now describes the matter as a national problem

Hunting is a global problem. It is not limited to any particular country or region but it is more profound in some areas. The Northeast region of India, which

In focussing on building carbon stocks in plantations, the proposed amendments to The Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980, weaken the very purpose of the legislation, which is to protect and conserve India's forests.

India’s forest cover now stands at around 24%, but a significant part of that area has lost much of its tree cover.

Altogether 195 people and 54,000 cattle have died in flood and over three lakh houses, 5,564 roads and 42 embankments damaged

This year, India is ranked lowest, at 180.