The Tribal Affairs ministry last week directed states to compile data on the number of villages and families residing in ...

HYDERABAD: The relocation of four villages from Amrabad Tiger Reserve (ATR) core area to the Bacharam reserve forest lands is now posing an environmental challenge for forest officials as over one ...

The state revenue and forest departments have concluded the two-day survey of the forest land in Srinivaspur taluk that was allegedly encroached upon by former speaker KR Ramesh Kumar over two ...

Kothamangalam Judicial First Class Magistrate Haridasan E N convicted and sentenced Aji, Shaji, and Babu to three years imprisonment under section 51 of the Wildlife Protection Act which provides ...

The court, in its January 17 order, also sentenced them to one year for the offence under section 27(I)(e)(iv) (trespassing into reserved forest with intent to hunt any wild animal) of the Kerala ...

Add to that more than 100 mammals, 400 types of birds and 1,200 amphibian species, and you have Monteverde's lush 35,000-acre reserve. What's more, Monteverde Cloud Forest is home to more than 2% ...

"These forests were once home to over 100 wild species, including elephants, tigers, leopards, deer, and hanuman langurs. Today, sightings of wildlife are rare, with only occasional visits by wild ...

U.S. softwood lumber duties and president-elect Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs against Canadian exports could be “devastating” to the province’s forestry sector, B.C. Forests Minister ...

Recently, Forestry Minister Raja Juli Antoni revealed the government's plan to utilize 20 million hectares of reserved forests as sources of food, energy, and water security. While underlining that ...

Kochi: A Kerala court has sentenced three persons to three years in jail for hunting a wild elephant in a reserve forest in 2009, saying that the pachyderm is the state animal and its "merciless ...