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The government launches campaigns for inclusive development, but amendments to Forest Conservation Act may harm the poorest citizens.

CLAUSTHAL-ZELLERFELD, Germany (AP) — Nestled in the spruce trees in the Harz mountains of northern Germany is a bark-eating pest not much bigger than a sesame seed. Known as “book printers” for the lines they eat into the bark that fan out from a single spine resembling words on a page, these eight-toothed beetles have always been part of the local forest. Officials expect the bugs to typically kill a few spruces each summer as they find suitable trees to lay their eggs — they burrow into the tree’s cambium, or growing layer, hampering it from getting the n...

Environmentalists have expressed concern about provisions of the Bill that seek to exclude some forest land from the ambit of the law.

India News: Congress Rajya Sabha MP and general secretary in-charge of communications department Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday came down heavily on the Narendra Mod

Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed a bill that exempts land within 100 km of the country's borders from the purview of conservation laws and permits setting up of zoos, safaris and eco-tourism facilities in forest areas. The Upper House passed the Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, 2023 after a brief debate, though the opposition had walked out over the ethnic violence in Manipur.