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Firefighters were working to stop the blaze reaching nearby villages. (Photo: Representational Image/AP)

500 firefighters to battle blaze in French forest

No buildings have been destroyed or people injured, but warned that the wind strength was forecast to strengthen during...

15 Aug 2019 7:18 AM

$Valentina Elangbam, a 9-year-old from Hiyanglam Makha Leikai in Kakching district has been made the ambassador of \Chief Ministers Green Manipur Mission\ after a video of her crying over axing of trees, that she had planted, went viral. (Photo: ANI)$ Newsmakers

Want to plant trees on all deforested hills: 9-yr-old Valentina...

Elangbam said that she feels hurt when people cut down trees. She even aspires to become a forest officer in future.

10 Aug 2019 7:27 AM

A forest range officer (FRO) of Pirakata Range under Midnapur division has created a beautiful garden using waste plastic bottles and rubber tyres. (Photo: ANI)

Forest officer creates garden using plastic bottles, rubber tyres in...

The garden has become a go-to spot in the area and attracts a crowd who pay a visit to appreciate the greenery and...

15 Sept 2019 5:26 AM

The forest department will plan to start translocation process in the second phase to have one more pair of tigers if the man-eating Sundari will not pose any threat to human habitats in Satkosia forest.

Odisha is told to relocate tiger to native MP forest

Around 100 villages situated in core of the Satkosia tiger reserve could not be relocated so far posing threat to wild...

4 Jan 2020 1:08 AM

Drier areas still had fertile soils, where farmers would have been able to grow crops and fruit trees like Brazil nuts. (Photo: Pixabay)

'Uninhabited' Amazon may have been home to a million people

Scientists from Britain and Brazil uncovered evidence of hundreds of fortified villages in the rainforest away from the...

28 March 2018 11:32 AM

Uttarakhand sees around 25 human-animal conflict deaths every year.

Maharashtra gives U'khand tips on human-animal conflict

Maharashtra's forest department is assisting Uttarakhand forest officials in dealing with human animal conflict.

18 Nov 2016 1:31 AM

Firewatchers will be employed annually as labourers during the fire season at Sanjay Gandhi National Park.

Forest officials meet to discuss measures

The forest department also asked their teams to respond to queries irrespective of whichever jurisdiction it falls...

4 March 2017 10:26 PM

Lal Singh Tandia in the police custody in Gariabandh, Chhattisgarh. (Photo: Asian Age)

Idea that brought government to its knees

A tippler in C'garh encouraged tribals to cut 30,000 trees.

31 Dec 2016 9:07 PM

An escape from the perils of life in metros (Photo: Facebook)

A luxurious stay in the wild in Canada's hanging hotel

The interiors of these beautiful wooden domes are also breathtaking and cosy.

26 April 2017 2:28 PM