Logging ban

Authorities plan reforestation scheme to combat floods

Timber tussle

Landholders want tree rights

The environment war

The army has taken to environment resuscitation with prganised fervour, but is still facing a barrage of criticism from state forest

Saving to survive

Impending doom has prompted villagers in Bihar and Orissa to protect their forests from natural calamities. And humans

Green drive

Student teaches gree

Barren as before

Planting trees instead of feeding brahmins

Even death ceremonies in these 1,200 villages in orissa's Puri district have been transformed

The miracle of the hills and the humans

Planters devils?

The debate over captive plantations for the paper industry rages like a prairie fire

Sandbagging

Marusthal par vijay Haryana Forest Department 42.25 min

GREEN DRIVE

Controlling carbon

Afforestation of degraded land in India can help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

In the dumps

Green effort

Seeds sown

Some headway made in talks on Kyoto-related afforestation

Hardy babul does well with crops

Field trials prove a deep-rooted tree indigenous to Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra grows well in the Thar desert.

Environmental entropy

Responding to Global Warming: The Technology, Economics and Politics of Sustainable Energy by Peter Read Publisher: Zed Books Ltd Price: Not stated

Model land

SOCIAL FORESTRY IN INDIA: ANALYSIS OF VARIOUS MODELS D Sen, A P Purandare and P K Das Publisher: National Institute of Rural Development, …

Fallacy in figure

During the 1980s the rate of destruction of natural forests was reduced as compared to the 1970s. Most of the deforestation took place in the …

Village Forest -- with Draft Rules Under Sec 28 of Indian Forest Act 1927

Millions of Indian villagers today act as guardians of forests, forming a mutually beneficial relationship, quite often without outside help. But …

Odisha tribal organisations protest against draft CAF Rules  

The protests are in opposition to the vague position of the Rules on forest-dwelling communities in the compensatory afforestation process

Having its cars, and its reputation

The sapling brigade

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