Dense cover-up

What's the purpose of the State of Forest Report 2003 ?

National Forestry Research Plan to focus on climate change

A blueprint for scientific research in forestry, the plan is made every 20 years and was formulated last in 2000

Technique developed in Kenya offers a refined way to map tree cover

A new approach to monitor changes to the earth's surface uses maps that consist of physical and human geographic data to explain what's changed

A self-sacrificing tree

CAMBODIA

India is third largest importer of illegally-logged wood: IUFRO

With an annual import value of over Rs 40 billion, the country accounts for close to 10 per cent of the global illegal wood trade

In a sorry state

India's forests and the Forest Survey of India need a fresh lease of life, reveals new report

The lull sets in

Scientists warn that conditions are favourable for another sal borer epidemic. State forest departments are unprepared

Did everybody get it wrong?

India’s total forest cover increases by 1%: State of Forest Report 2017

A biannual report by the Forest Survey of India shows a 0.94% increase in India’s total forest cover since its last assessment in 2015

Basic science needed for conservation

Choking research

Mismanagement in India's premier forestry research institute

Empower communities to restore forests: Study

Crucial forest-restoration areas in low-income countries — home to 12 per cent of their total population — can have an impact on …

Two incidents that made me ask: Whither forestry extension?

Extension programmes in forest institutions are meant to benefit stakeholders, mainly farmers, villagers and rural communities

Tree-planting campaigns can reduce, not improve biodiversity, shows study

Tree plantations can contradict the real purpose of planting trees, according to the study

Karnataka lost Rs 3,000 crore due to illegal mining: CAG

Performance audit report unveils mining irregularities in the state

Torn apart

Forest fragmentation can have detrimental effects on the flora and fauna, leading to a loss of biodiversity

Jungle raj

CAG memo shows IFS officers are administering country’s premier forestry research body like a fiefdom

Forests in peril in Amazon rainforests