KOLKATA: Green activists who had been fighting to save several century-old trees on Panditiya Road now have reasons to feel happy with National Green Tribunal (NGT) ordering a ban on felling of trees in

Gurgaon: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday allowed residents of DLF Phase I to water new trees planted by them in the green belt, where BPCL had axed around 50 trees to make way for a petrol

DEHRADUN: In a recently submitted report to the Parliament by the ministry of environment and forest, Uttarakhand recorded a major loss of 268 square km forest cover between 2013-2015. The state ranks

Hundreds of Bangladeshis began a four-day march Thursday from the capital to the Sundarbans in a last-ditch protest against plans to build a coal-fired power plant near the World Heritage-listed forest.

The proposed ban by East African governments won't work. To develop their industrial sectors, they should focus on reducing manufacturing costs instead.

Achieving women's economic empowerment requires a challenge to the status quo - tinkering around the edges will not be enough.

Membership of the Regional Forest Communicators Networks has risen by 50 percent over the last year, the Global Group on Forest Communication reported at its annual global coordination meeting.

The regional networks (Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Mediterranean and the Near East) now have more than 440 members thanks to outreach at high profile events such as the World Forestry Congress. Networks have worked collaboratively to push for improved communications within the forestry sector and promoted the many benefits that come from joining a regional network.

“People who might have worked in often quite isolated situations are joining us and finding other professionals who share very similar problems,” said Patricia Sfeir of the Mediterranean and Near East Forest Communicators Network, explaining the increase in membership. “We provide free practical opportunities for skills development, sharing exciting new ideas, and finding innovative ways of doing things.”

Department put figure at 22 per cent as against 12 per cent. Hyderabad: The data of Global Forest Watch, an initiative of the World Resources Institute and its partners, contradicts the claims of the

Kyenjojo — Ibambaro Central Forest Reserve in Kyenjojo District is under threat of extinction given the high number of encroachers, a team led by National Forest Authority (NFA), security and civil society

With over N676.8bn spent in international conservation funding to protect biodiversity and stop tropical deforestation in Africa since the early 1990s, the forest has gone down the more, a new study has

APRIL Group has adopted a landscape approach in restoring 150,000 hectares of environmentally important peat forest in the Kampar Peninsula in Riau province, Sumatra, involving multiple stakeholders, including

To meet their goal of eliminating preventable child deaths by 2030, governments need to tackle the inequalities that are excluding poor women and children from health care.

Both men and women depend on Earth’s ecosystems and their life-sustaining benefits. Often, though, the role of women in conservation is overlooked or understated.

Nearly 19,000 sq kms of forest area in the country is under encroachment, the Lok Sabha was told on Tuesday. "As per information provided by states and Union Territories, the forest area under encroachment

Forest officials suspect miscreants behind fire Up in smoke: Forest fire broke out in the Bandipur National Park in Chamarajanagar district on Tuesday. Forest land spread across 200 acres was destroyed

NAVI MUMBAI: A recent notification issued by the state government declared 1,471.412 hectares of forestland with mangroves along Navi Mumbai creek line under civic jurisdiction as reserve forest. Though

The latest issue of the European Forest Institute's newsletter EFI News has published an interview with the IUFRO President entitled "In the footsteps of Mike Wingfield". There he stresses the importance of global research collaboration to adequately address overarching themes such as climate change and react to shifting societal priorities that pose challenges and also create opportunities for forest research.  
 
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​Leading global thinkers join experts and practitioners from developing nations to discuss key barriers to women and girls achieving their potential.

​Leading global thinkers join experts and practitioners from developing nations to discuss key barriers to women and girls achieving their potential.

Women play a vital role in forest-related activities, in the workforce, family farms and at home.

FAO’s State of the World’s Forests found that 1 in 4 employees in the formal forestry sector is a woman. But in less-developed countries, where wood energy is often the only energy source, women and children collect 85% of all fuelwood used in the home. The role of women in production is largely confined to the collection of forest products for subsistence use, rather than income generation.

With forests and forestry being an important part of the agriculture sector, FAO Forestry continues to mainstream gender equality and strengthen the role of women in forest-related projects and programmes. To celebrate International Women's Day, share our photo gallery of women working in forests and forestry.