Hyderabad: Civic bodies in Telangana will set up a green cell envisaging enhancement of green cover in the state. The corporation and municipalities will have green cells, led by IFS officers, to conserve

PANAJI: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) directed the state forest department to submit a map of an area of 28,550 sq m identified as private forest in Pilerne to the revenue department for official records.

Kathmandu Post
The Kathmandu Post- Govt to celebrate four decades of conservation
Kathmandu Post
The government is celebrating the first community forestry day on Tuesday at the national level to mark the contributions made by the local communities in ...

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Ghana's construction sector has potential to provide young people with much needed employment.

In the aftermath of Brexit, questions are being risen about the possible impacts of Brexit on Climate Change and Environment policy.

Kathmandu Post
Community forest stakeholders, Chure board conflict peaks
Himalayan Times
The conflict between two major stakeholders in the forest sector, the President Chure Tarai-Madhes Conservation Development board and Federation of ...
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Himalayan Times
Accommodation cost rises on Annapurna Base Camp trek route
Himalayan Times
The Union of Nepal Trekking, Travel, Rafting, Airlines workers, Trekking Agencies' Association of Nepal, and Western Regional Association Pokhara said that the cost of the amenities had been increased unilaterally without consulting them, which was not ...

Kathmandu Post
Community forest stakeholders, Chure board conflict peaks
Himalayan Times
The conflict between two major stakeholders in the forest sector, the President Chure Tarai-Madhes Conservation Development board and Federation of ...
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UW in the News
University of Wyoming News
The WyVTC, scheduled to begin in 2017, is part of the Wyoming Conservation Corps, which is housed at UW. The Boomerang featured the UW Board of Trustees summer retreat last week in Saratoga. ... Deutsche Welle reported that George Varughese, Nepal's ...

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Orphaned elephant finds a new home and a best friend
AOL News
After being orphaned at a young age, one little elephant finally has it all: a happy home, a tight-knit family and a best friend! Gen Thong was just three years old when his mother died after being attacked by wasps. He was soon forced to work, and was ...

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East Asians once dominated the Himalayas
SciDev.Net
[KATHMANDU] A newly released genetic study shows that East Asians were the earliest inhabitants of the vast Himalayan Arc, an area that later became a melting pot of different racial groups and cultures from South Asia, Central Asia and West Eurasia.

A forest worker was killed and 2,500 people evacuated on the Canary island of La Palma after a forest fire was reportedly started by a German burning soiled toilet paper. Firefighters and army emergency

Palm oil supplier IOI Group has had its certificate for sustainable palm oil reinstated by the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), after it was judged to have fulfilled the body’s demands to improve

An epic wildfire that has killed one person and blackened about 60,000 acres along the California coast, forced authorities on Monday to shut down a portion of scenic Highway 1 near Carmel-by-the-Sea.

Chevron Corp persuaded a federal appeals court on Monday to block enforcement in the United States of an $8.65 billion Ecuadorean pollution judgment that it said, and which the court agreed, was obtained

Bhubaneswar: The state's forest cover is getting depleted and has lost around 37,500 hectares (375 sq km) to encroachers, information obtained under RTI has revealed. Although chief minister Naveen

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Forest Cover, 09/08/2016. Forest Survey of India, Dehradun is carrying out the assessment of forest cover of the country biennially and the findings are published in India

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Green India Mission, 09/08/2016. The National Mission for a Green India (GIM) is currently being implemented in nine States namely Uttarakhand, Punjab, Karnataka, Andhra

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Mines in Forest Area, 09/08/2016. Details of Mining projects for different minerals approved for diversion of forest land from 1980 to July, 2016 in the country is at Annexure

Himalayan Times
One-horned female rhino found dead in Chitwan
Himalayan Times
The around-12-year-old female pachyderm might have died after receiving electric shock from a wire fencing used by locals to save their crops from animals of the Chitwan National Park, according to the CNP Conservation Officer Narendra Aryal. However ...

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