Destroying Nigeria’s riverside forests is bad for the freshwater ecosystem

Rapid decline in freshwater biodiversity attributed to deforestation

Unclean paper

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El Salvador recognises forests as living entities

The central American country has lost about 85 per cent of its native forests since the 1960s

Forest law amendment threatens existence of van panchayats

The amendment says that the government can take away the management rights in case it feels that the community is not managing the forest sustainably

Plantation proposal

Not out of woods

Large forests track said to be untouched are in a perilous state

On the anvil

National environment policy

Gunning for the greens

Book notice: The last forests of Bangladesh

According to records, Bangladesh's forest cover has shrunk to a meagre six per cent from 20 per cent in 1927. The southern mangroves are perhaps …

Tree pests

Sylvan simulation

Touch

France's forests have historically remained alienated from its commoners

Open-door policy

They also serve

Though it controls 23.4 per cent of the country's land, the Indian Forest Service has little administrative clout. For long the stepchild of …

Is lebelling wood good ?

The North and South disagree on classifying logged timber.

Ban on Lafarge continues

Hunting has affected more than half of tropical forests: Study

Scientists in the Netherlands find a 70 per cent decline in mammal population in Western Africa, which is the biggest in the world

From the blurbs

The tragedy of the tropical tree

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Silent terror

Chop and serve

No deal

All talk, no action

State of confusion and double-speak

The 1995 report on state of India's forests baffles environmentalists with its curious explanations

Whose forests?