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@Richard20711534 Issue Date: Jan 31, 2013
Nobody in Loyendi village keeps track of time. But for its 150-odd residents, December 7, 2012, is a day to remember. “It is our independence day,” says village elder Petra Kanhara. On this day, the village in Odisha’s Kandhamal district got community right over 20 mountains full of forests under the Forest Rights Act (FRA).
Science and Technology - Briefs
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2013
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Finned polluter
Bad bug
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2012
MOUNTAIN pine beetle is known to eat into the bark of pine and kill them. But the bug causes more harm than is apparent.
Letters - October 31, 2012
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2012
Truly biomess
Fire in the mountain
Issue Date: Sep 30, 2012
Rising mercury has taken its toll not just in the plains but also in the Himalayan mountains. A longer-than-usual summer and absence of moisture led to proliferation of forest fires. A common sight across Himachal Pradesh this summer was forests, especially chir pine forests in the lower and middle Himalayas, covered with uncontrollable flames by night and smoke by day.
A delicious affair
Issue Date: May 31, 2012
After four-and-a-half hours of arduous trekking on the hill slopes from Srinagar town in early May last year, I reached the temperate forest of Khirsu, an eye- catching yet lesser known hill station in Uttarakhand’s Pauri Garhwal district.
Forest fires singe Maharashtra
Issue Date: Mar 29, 2012
Large swathes of forests in Maharashtra risk being destroyed by forest fires allegedly started by tendu contractors. Large forest areas have been gutted in fires at different places in Vidarbha over the past fortnight. Sources in the forest department say these are not natural forest fires, a frequent phenomenon during summer. The tussle between state forest department and tendu leaf contractors is said to be the root cause of the forest fires.
Maharashtra forest department backtracks on forest fire guidelines
Issue Date: Feb 10, 2012
Within days of declaring that the auction of tendu units will be cancelled in case of forest fires, the Maharashtra state forest department has decided to relax the rules. The move came after angry tendu contractors boycotted the auctions of the units. At the auctions held at the department’s office in Nagpur on January 30 not a single tender was received.
Maharashtra forest department bans collection of tendu leaves from areas prone to forest fires
Issue Date: Feb 1, 2012
Maharashtra has become the first state in the country to ban collection and sale of tendu leaves in areas where forest fires occur. The state forest department’s latest tender notice for tendu collection contracts issued on January 17 features a clause that tendu contractors and gram panchayats will be responsible for preventing and extinguishing of fires in tendu units (areas where tendu grows) from January 15 to June 15 every year.
Mercury rises early
Issue Date: May 31, 2009
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