Forest Land

The drive to evict encroachers from forest land in Assam's Lakhimpur district continued for the second day on Wednesday, with 299 families residing on a 250-hectare tract left in the lurch.

47-year-old Moirangthem Loiya started planting trees on the outskirts of Imphal town in the Langol Hill range about 20 years ago.

Several internet users said that humans have encroached the land belonging to wild animals.

A tiger on the prowl in Kerala's Wayanad, which had been giving sleepless nights to local residents in Cheeral for the past one month, finally landed in a cage placed by Forest officials in the early hours of Friday.

The Delhi Forest Department has issued notices to hundreds of residents in southwest Delhi's Aya Nagar, asking them to "vacate" the forest land they have "encroached" over the years.

Mangroves help prevent flooding and work as a wall of defence, especially in coastal areas.

Forest fires flared up in Uttarakhand on Tuesday as temperatures soared, with 198.9 hectares of forest land gutted in 117 fresh incidents of wildfires over the last 12 hours.

The environment "must prevail" over other rights and forests must be preserved, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday while hearing a matter which involved issues regarding forest and non-forest land in Haryana.

The Delhi government will transform the national capital into a city of "world-class parks" by developing about 3,000 acres of land into state-of-the-art facilities across 17 city forests under the 'Mukhyamantri Park Saundaryakaran Yojna', an officia

A total of 438 projects in the infrastructure sector, worth more than Rs 150 crore have been affected by cost overruns totalling Rs 4.34 lakh crores

Himanta Biswa Sarma reiterated that Assam will continue the eviction drives in areas where the government and forest lands have been encroached upon, but the government will also 'survey' lands available to resettle those evicted.

More than 100 global leaders late on Monday pledged to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by the end of the decade, underpinned by $19 billion in public and private funds to invest in protecting and restoring forests.

Facebook said on Friday that it will stop allowing the sale of land in Amazon rainforest conservation areas on the social network or its Instagram and WhatsApp services.

The Environment Ministry has proposed to amend the Forest Conservation Act to do away with the requirement of prior government approval for the development of border infrastructure on forest land.

Two pilots were injured when an Army helicopter crash-landed in a dense forested area in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur district today, officials said.

The drive to evict encroachers from forest land in Assam's Lakhimpur district continued for the second day on Wednesday, with 299 families residing on a 250-hectare tract left in the lurch.

47-year-old Moirangthem Loiya started planting trees on the outskirts of Imphal town in the Langol Hill range about 20 years ago.

Several internet users said that humans have encroached the land belonging to wild animals.

A tiger on the prowl in Kerala's Wayanad, which had been giving sleepless nights to local residents in Cheeral for the past one month, finally landed in a cage placed by Forest officials in the early hours of Friday.

The Delhi Forest Department has issued notices to hundreds of residents in southwest Delhi's Aya Nagar, asking them to "vacate" the forest land they have "encroached" over the years.

Mangroves help prevent flooding and work as a wall of defence, especially in coastal areas.

Forest fires flared up in Uttarakhand on Tuesday as temperatures soared, with 198.9 hectares of forest land gutted in 117 fresh incidents of wildfires over the last 12 hours.

The environment "must prevail" over other rights and forests must be preserved, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday while hearing a matter which involved issues regarding forest and non-forest land in Haryana.

The Delhi government will transform the national capital into a city of "world-class parks" by developing about 3,000 acres of land into state-of-the-art facilities across 17 city forests under the 'Mukhyamantri Park Saundaryakaran Yojna', an officia

A total of 438 projects in the infrastructure sector, worth more than Rs 150 crore have been affected by cost overruns totalling Rs 4.34 lakh crores

Himanta Biswa Sarma reiterated that Assam will continue the eviction drives in areas where the government and forest lands have been encroached upon, but the government will also 'survey' lands available to resettle those evicted.

More than 100 global leaders late on Monday pledged to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by the end of the decade, underpinned by $19 billion in public and private funds to invest in protecting and restoring forests.

Facebook said on Friday that it will stop allowing the sale of land in Amazon rainforest conservation areas on the social network or its Instagram and WhatsApp services.

The Environment Ministry has proposed to amend the Forest Conservation Act to do away with the requirement of prior government approval for the development of border infrastructure on forest land.

Two pilots were injured when an Army helicopter crash-landed in a dense forested area in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur district today, officials said.