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Species-rich Forests Offer Stable Carbon Capture
Why in News Surveys conducted inside Anamalai Tiger Reserve has shown that carbon storage was highest in species-rich evergreen forest. The study...
18 Jan 2020 Forest Resources
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Panel Approves Scheme to Trade in Forests
Why in News Recently, the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) has approved the Green Credit Scheme. It will allow the Forest Department to outsource the...
10 Jan 2020 Forest Resources
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Why in news? Kerala has decided to use the Japanese Miyawaki method of afforestation. Earlier, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Telangana and some other...
10 Jan 2020 Forest Resources
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One-fifth of the Country’s Forests Prone to Fire
Why in News Recently, the 2019 report by Forest Survey of India (FSI) was released. It states that about 21.40% of forest cover in India is prone to...
01 Jan 2020 Forest Resources
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According to the data from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE), the Amazon Forests in Brazil has experienced 74,155 fires since...
23 Aug 2019 Forest Resources
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The Andhra Pradesh Government has constituted a seven-member committee for fulfilment of norms required for proposing the Godavari Mangroves (Mada...
19 Jun 2019 Forest Resources
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Status of Conservation of Tigers
According to data released by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), poaching and electrocution were behind tiger deaths reported in the...
07 May 2019 Forest Resources
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Exclude Tree Cover from Forest Surveys
A high-power committee of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) recommended that Forest Surveys should explicitly demarcate...
09 Mar 2019 Forest Resources
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The Supreme Court has ordered the forced eviction of more than 1,000,000 tribal and other forest-dwelling households from forestlands across 16...
22 Feb 2019 Forest Resources
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Exotic Trees Eating up Western Ghat’s Grasslands
As per the study published recently in the international journal Biological Conservation, the Western Ghats have lost almost one-fourth of...
03 Jan 2019 Forest Resources
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Living Planet Report released by the World Wildlife Fund for Nature documents the state of the earth in terms of biodiversity and indicates the...
29 Dec 2018 Forest Resources
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World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has recently released Living Planet Report 2018 along with Living Planet Index. The report also explores three other...
02 Nov 2018 Forest Resources
