Law for the jungle

Supreme Court passes an interim order banning commercial activities in all forest areas

Shifting the blame

About five lakh trees were felled by the IAF last year. Till today, no action has been taken

The beetle and the bureaucrat

Eleven lakh sal trees face the axe in order to exterminate a beetle that is boring a hole into the image of the forest bureaucracy

KENYA

Deforestation accelerating

Facing the axe

Bangladesh mulls major felling drive in the Sundarbans area

Amazonian logging gang busted

Concrete loss

F for forest and furniture

Barren horizon

Inverse proportion: species quantum and carbon dioxide

The extinction of species decreases plant productivity and impairs the functions of an ecosystem -- like mopping up carbon dioxide

People goaded to save their forests

Fed up with government inaction on mining and deforestation in the Aravallis, the people of the region are taking it upon themselves to end the …

Inverted camouflage

A Cash-hungry Russia eyes its Siberian coniferous forests

The Siberian forests are facing the axe from a Russia eager to top the financial potencial of its timber.

Not all green is healthy

KAMPUCHEA

Viper wiper

Lost in the deep woods

Himalayan plunder

Tourism has wreaked havoc on Sikkim's natural resources

Cutting disgrace

Increased demand for timber in Pakistan has prompted poor tribals to sell their trees as a means of generating income

MAHAKALI MATTERS

INDIA

LOGGING BARRED

GREEN RULING

Vanishing green

India lost about 5,550 sq km of forest cover in the last two years. Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh were the worst hit