US wildfire act could aid timber industry

On December 3, US President George W Bush gave the green light to the Healthy Forest Restoration Act, declaring that it would "help to prevent …

Has anything changed?

Quincy remains an exception. The old story continues at the national level

Community efforts

In which the people of Quincy got their act together

Troubled history

Local communities have always been stuck in no man's land in the US

Timber and West African civil wars

A dictator and a timber dealer fomented West Africa's civil wars

Out of the woods

India becomes a major player in the global timber trade

Walnut trees: Kashmir lockdown’s other victim

Walnut trees have been the strange casualty of Kashmir’s transition from a state to a Union Territory

India opposes CITES move to regulate trade in all species of Dalbergia

It calls for considering individual species based on its conservation status in the wild and market status of international trade while unveiling …

Corruption in timber trade fuels deforestation, biodiversity loss

Illegal timber trade also gives rise to conflicts between local communities and logging companies

Himachal Pradesh forest staff to be equipped with arms to curb smuggling

The personnel posted in the checkposts in these areas can carry pistols, guns, revolvers or rifles to check illegal felling and smuggling of trees

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PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Woodstock worries

A recent ban on all forestactivities in the north-eastshould provide alternatives toworkers in this sector

Clean drive

Smuggled wood seized

CAMBODIA

CONGO

Ex-Chief Minister in the dock

Summons issued in khair wood allotment case in Himachal Pradesh

Theft in tiger country

Rule relaxed

TN unshackles timber transport

Felling favoured

1997 repeated

How tribals are conned out of their timber

Caught in a logjam

Agreement on tropical timber eludes UN meet

Taxing times for Coorg

A new timber tax is a livelihood dilemma for coffee growers

Forest code

Bhutan unveils new plan