The Uttarakhand government has been claiming that it was able to free more than 5,000 acres of its land from encroachments even as the forest department claimed that more than 2,400 hectares of its land was encroached in the last six years.
Jharkhand hosted a state-level workshop on “Assessing Vulnerability and Climate Risks” in Ranchi, bringing together policymakers, scientists, and experts to address the state’s climate challenges.
The Royal Bengal Tiger of Maipith in South 24-Parganas playing hide and seek, has finally been captured and caged and released in forest.
District Enforcement Branch (DEB) of Birbhum district police has seized huge quantities of explosives from an abandoned house in Hastikadi Forest area under Rampurhat police station.
India's forest and tree cover has increased by 1,445 square kilometers between 2021 and 2023, according to the biennial India State of Forest Report (ISFR) 2023 unveiled by Union Environment, Forest, and Climate Change Minister Bhupendra Yadav in Dehradun on Saturday.
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change on Monday said that the process of shifting some cheetahs at the new enclosure of Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary from Kuno National Park (KNP) is likely to be started by end of this month.
In alignment with the government's commitment to conservation and protection of the environment, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has notified the Ecomark Rules on 26th September, replacing the Ecomark scheme of 1991.
The Forest Department personnel of Odisha’s Hirakud wildlife division laid wreaths and garlands to pay respect to a 65-year-old captive male elephant after the pachyderm died a natural death.
The White Knight Corps of the Army confirming the casualty on X said that Captain Deepak Singh was injured while leading the search party and succumbed to his wounds.
The rainy season has always been a time of anticipation and activity in the sal forests of Junglemahal, where the wild edible mushroom Astraeus hygrometricus, locally known as Kurkur Chhattu, flourishes.
