National Forest Policy

The new policy of the Chhattisgarh government has instilled a wave of new energy and enthusiasm among the residents of forest areas. The result was so significant that amid the lockdown period of Covid-19, where forest-based economic activities were stagnant throughout the nation, the state of Chhattisgarh registered an incredible achievement: it a...

The Delhi government has set an ambitious target of increasing the city's green cover from 20.6 per cent to 25 per cent by 2025, but officials say this is possible only if the DDA hands overland on the Yamuna riverbanks to the forest department.

The BBC has been banned to film in tiger reserves for five years as its documentary on Kaziranga National Park "misrepresented" the immunity provided to forest staff as a "shoot-to-kill" policy, the Centre on Tuesday said.

The Environment Ministry today said the report of a study done by Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal, was "inadvertently" uploaded on its website as the draft National Forest Policy and that the policy document was yet to finalised.

Aiming to bring one-third of the country's geographical area under forest cover, the Centre has prepared the new draft National Forest Policy (NFP) 2016 which proposes a "green tax" and an increase in the budget for the forest sector.

Forest cover in the national capital increased from six per cent in 1999 to 20.8 per cent in 2013 mainly due to plantation activity carried out in non-forest areas, the city government has told the Delhi High Court.

India, one of the world's largest polluters, has drafted a national policy aimed at reducing its carbon emissions from deforestation as part of a global scheme which financially rewards developing nations for carbon stored through forest preservation.

In a bid to increase the green cover in the state to 33.33 per cent as per the National Forest Policy, Tamil Nadu government has sanctioned Rs 50.50 lakh towards planting of trees in rocky terrain and distribution of free seedlings to schools, health and educational institutions.

The new policy of the Chhattisgarh government has instilled a wave of new energy and enthusiasm among the residents of forest areas. The result was so significant that amid the lockdown period of Covid-19, where forest-based economic activities were stagnant throughout the nation, the state of Chhattisgarh registered an incredible achievement: it a...

The Delhi government has set an ambitious target of increasing the city's green cover from 20.6 per cent to 25 per cent by 2025, but officials say this is possible only if the DDA hands overland on the Yamuna riverbanks to the forest department.

The BBC has been banned to film in tiger reserves for five years as its documentary on Kaziranga National Park "misrepresented" the immunity provided to forest staff as a "shoot-to-kill" policy, the Centre on Tuesday said.

The Environment Ministry today said the report of a study done by Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal, was "inadvertently" uploaded on its website as the draft National Forest Policy and that the policy document was yet to finalised.

Aiming to bring one-third of the country's geographical area under forest cover, the Centre has prepared the new draft National Forest Policy (NFP) 2016 which proposes a "green tax" and an increase in the budget for the forest sector.

Forest cover in the national capital increased from six per cent in 1999 to 20.8 per cent in 2013 mainly due to plantation activity carried out in non-forest areas, the city government has told the Delhi High Court.

India, one of the world's largest polluters, has drafted a national policy aimed at reducing its carbon emissions from deforestation as part of a global scheme which financially rewards developing nations for carbon stored through forest preservation.

In a bid to increase the green cover in the state to 33.33 per cent as per the National Forest Policy, Tamil Nadu government has sanctioned Rs 50.50 lakh towards planting of trees in rocky terrain and distribution of free seedlings to schools, health and educational institutions.