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In India, as incidence of forest fires spikes in the pandemic, inhabitants lose their sole source of livelihood

From the Namami Gange Programme to arrest the pollution and revive river Ganga to the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, the national cleanliness drive, PM Modi has ensured growth and environment go hand-in-hand.

18 elephant deaths in Assam’s Nagaon district highlight forest cover loss Though a post-mortem report will be submitted after three days, vets, conservationists and officials are more than sure that lightning was the cause of death Conservationists and forest officials on Friday said the death of 18 elephants attributed to a bolt of lightning in Assam’s Nagaon district on Wednesday night was perhaps the first time that so many of them have been felled in such an incident in the world. A group o...

2137 RK Sapra FORESTS provide timber for the manufacturing of domestic and industrial products. The National Forest Policy (NFP), 1952, envisaged that the forests would meet the raw material demand of wood-based industries, while the National Forest Policy of 1988 shifted the focus to the conservation of forests. During the late 1970s and the 1980s, as per the recommendations of the National Commission on Agriculture, the states implemented externally aided social forestry projects which not only met the demand of raw material, but also led to the popularisation of agroforestry. As per the In...

Forest fire management   |  27 April 2021 5:51 AM GMT Devastating forest fire in Mizoram's Lunglei district has left several settlements destroyed. It also exposed the yawning gaps in forest fire management in Northeast region which accounts for more than fifty per cent of forest fires in India. The Indian Air Force deployed two helicopters equipped with Bambi buckets for spraying water to bring the raging fire in the district and adjoining areas under control following an SOS by the Mizoram government. It is heartening to know that no casualty has been reported from the affected areas. The...