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270 urban forest projects approved since 2020: Govt tells Parliament

Nagar Van Yojana, launched in 2020, aims to enhance green cover, biodiversity in cities

Villagers booked for thrashing forest rangers on Rajasthan-MP border

At least six personnel of the forest department were injured after they were allegedly attacked by villagers during a confrontation over removal of encroachment on stretch of forest land on MP-Rajasthan border. The incident happened in Kasba Thana forest check post range under Baran district, when a forest department squad visited the area for a plantation drive and to remove the encroachment. On the basis of a complaint of forest department officials, around 10 people only two of them identified were booked on Saturday night on charges of deterring a public servant from discharge of his duty and hurting him. None of the accused have been arrested yet, even though the area was raided by police teams led by Circle Officer Hament Gautam and SHO Rajkumar Meena on Sunday. Around 35-40 Bheel tribe families, belonging to villages on the RajasthanMP border have encroached over 200-300 bigas of forest land in Kasba Thana forest range , and erected tents and started living there with plan

Area under moderately dense mangroves fell in 10 years, shows data

Overall mangrove cover increased between 2011 and 2021

GM mustard awaits a 'competent authority' as uncertainty surrounds

Uncertainty surrounds the second attempt to introduce the genetically modified oilseed

Leopard cub found dead in Mumbai's Film City; forest dept denies poaching

A leopard cub aged eight to nine months was found dead inside the Film City in Mumbai on Sunday morning, but the forest department officials ruled out any poaching attempt as all body parts of the animal were intact. The necropsy report later revealed that respiratory complications and head trauma with bleeding were the primary causes of the death, a forest official said. "On Sunday morning, the control room of the forest department received a call from the Film City located in suburban Goregaon, informing that a leopard cub was found dead near a film set. The rescue team of the forest department reached the spot and recovered the carcass," he said. The body parts of the animal were found intact, and hence the possibility of poaching was ruled out in the initial investigation, he added. The Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), which is home to a number of leopards, is located nearby. "The carcass of the cub was sent to SGNP for necropsy to determine the cause of the death," said Pa

Only 37% of trees transplanted in last 3 yrs survived in Delhi: Forest Dept

Only 37 percent of the trees transplanted in the national capital in 2021-22 have survived despite the implementation of the Delhi tree transplantation policy, according to forest department data. A senior forest department official said, "The policy has made the tree transplantation process more scientific but we are yet to study its impact as it was implemented just a year-and-a-half ago". The forest department data showed that only one-third (33.33 percent) of the 16,461 trees transplanted in Delhi over the last three years survived. Only 1,521 of the 4,162 trees transplanted in the city in 2019-20 survived. Just 2,001 (28.57 percent) of the 7,003 trees survived in 2020-21 and 1,965 (37.10 percent) of the 5,296 trees transplanted in 2021-22 are alive, the data showed. According to the Delhi government's tree transplantation policy notified in December 2020, agencies concerned have to transplant a minimum of 80 percent of the trees affected by their development works. The bench

Over 7,000 trees illegally felled, damaged in Delhi in a year, shows data

Last year between January 1 and June 30, Delhi's forest department received over 4,100 complaints in the south forest division of trees being illegally damaged in violation of the provisions

High Court convicts 3 PWD officers and a cop for damaging 80 trees in Delhi

About 80 trees at Vikas Marg in Delhi were extensively damaged by the PWD officials, who breached the judicial mandate, the Delhi High Court noted

U'khand Forest Dept conserves 73 rare, threatened, endangered plant species

The research wing of the Uttarakhand Forest Department on Saturday informed that it conserved 73 rare, threatened and endangered plant species as well as 54 plant species

SC asks forest dept to expedite process of re-claiming encroached land

The court asked the forest department to proceed on the basis of the map which they have saying, "if the revenue department is not giving you the map, will you do nothing?"