Plantations News

RSS
38 stories

Pathogens find new pathways as agriculture, deforestation intensify

Arathi Menon 25 Apr 2024

Gujarat bans exotic Conocarpus tree amid health and environment hazard

Ronak Gajjar 16 Jan 2024

As lightning kills 12 in a day, Odisha proposes large-scale palm tree plantations

Aishwarya Mohanty 17 Oct 2023

Wrong trees in wrong places wastes tree plantation budget, finds study

Sahana Ghosh 6 May 2022
The government of India has been trying to change how India’s forests are governed, especially the national forest policy, for at least six years now. Photo by Nandhu Kumar/ Pixabay.

India seeks synergy in rules governing its forests

Mayank Aggarwal 6 Apr 2022

Plantation on a barren hillock in West Bengal stops erosion, attracts birds

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 8 Mar 2022

Citizens attempt to revive mahua trees in Mumbai

Hepzi Anthony 18 Jan 2022

Reforestation efforts provide hope, but more work needed on supportive policy and community involvement

Sapna Gopal 9 Dec 2021

Assam’s perfume tree comes to the tea industry’s rescue

Azera Parveen Rahman 24 Nov 2021

Should tree plantations be counted toward reforestation goals?

Gianluca Cerullo 21 Sep 2021
The project has generated livelihood opportunities for local communities. The daily wage rate being offered is Rs 306. Some 250 workers are now engaged and many have come from five km away. Photo by Abhishek Maitry

Durg forest division plans reforestation over 2,500 acres

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 26 Aug 2021

Desert areas of Rajasthan bloom under afforestation efforts

Nandini Jhalani 28 Jun 2021

Bamboo forest regeneration efforts planned in Chhattisgarh

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 17 Jun 2021

[Commentary] Wildlife in Tillari valley at risk from land-use change

Narendra Patil 31 May 2021

The risks of tree plantation in grassland and non-forest areas

Shreya Dasgupta 25 May 2021

Eucalyptus plantations in Andhra Pradesh sway between economy and ecology

Azera Parveen Rahman 21 Apr 2021

Indian government makes another attempt to amend the Indian Forest Act 1927

Mayank Aggarwal 16 Apr 2021

The hits and misses of a mine reclamation project in Jharkhand

Gurvinder Singh 1 Apr 2021
Gaddi herd of sheep and goats moving toward Bharmour from Chamba .Gaddi move their herds of sheep and goats toward Bharmour from lower ranges of plains in summer and vice versa.The Gaddis are a tribe living primarily in Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir of Indian union.Their main profession is goat and sheep rearing. Photo by Harvinder Chandigarh/Wikimedia Commons.

Afforestation is making the livelihoods of Gaddi pastoralists in the Himalayas more vulnerable

Neha Jain 18 Dec 2020

The cost of urbanisation in Delhi

Manupriya 15 Dec 2020