How mounting demand for rubber is driving tropical forest loss
The growing market for rubber is a major and overlooked cause of deforestation, and the transition to electric vehicles could accelerate rubber use.
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The growing market for rubber is a major and overlooked cause of deforestation, and the transition to electric vehicles could accelerate rubber use.
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Vikram Simha, the brother of BJP MP from Mysuru-Kodagu Lok Sabha seat Pratap Simha, was arrested by the Forest Department on Saturday for his alleged involvement in a case wherein 126 scheduled trees protected under the Forest Act were felled without permission and their logs smuggled.
While it should stop taking big infra projects, the army must first complete work on the expressway to Tarai.
Karnataka forest department says evictions happening regularly with focus on encroachment of more than 3 acres land, but Ministry’s encroachment figure does not capture that