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Karnataka: Smugglers decamp with 150 sandalwood trees
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Shivamogga (Karnataka) [India], September 10 (ANI): Smugglers chopped down 150 sandalwood trees belonging to a farmer and decamped with logs from a village in Shivamogga district in Karnataka.
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Injured crocodile rescued from residential area in Vadodara
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Vadodara (Gujarat) [India], September 10 (ANI): An injured crocodile that had wandered from its natural habitat and was roaming in a residential area at Tarsali in Gujarat's Vadodara district was rescued by the Wildlife Rescue Trust and the forest department late on Tuesday night.
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Over 37 yrs, glaciers in Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve's Rishikesh catchmen
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], September 9 (ANI): Glaciers in Rishikesh catchment area of world heritage site Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve are depleting fast due to climate change, with a reduction of almost 10 per cent in almost four decades, says a study by the Ministry of Environment and
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Elephant found dead on border between Kerala, Tamil Nadu
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Sholayur (Kerala) [India], September 9 (ANI): The carcass of an injured elephant was found in Sholayur area on the border of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, forest department officials said on Wednesday.
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Karnataka forest squad busts gang of poachers, 6 held
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Koppala (Karnataka) [India], September 8 (ANI): Mangaluru Forest Trafficking Squad officials have arrested six people for illegally possessing one live female blackbuck, skins and heads of blackbucks in Koppala district on Monday.
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Char Dham highway: SC directs Centre to plant trees to compensate loss of
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 8 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Central government to undertake plantation activities to compensate for the loss of forest area due to the construction of Char Dham national highway in Uttarakhand.
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California wildfires spread over record 2 million acres
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
California [US], September 8 (ANI/Sputnik): Wildfires in California have covered more than 2 million acres this year, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), setting a record for a single fire season.
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Actor Prabhas adopts 1,650 acres of Khazipally Reserve Forest
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Sangareddy (Telangana) [India], September 8 (ANI): Actor Prabhas has adopted 1,650 acres of Khazipally reserve forest under Green Indian Challenge programme initiated by Rajya Sabha MP Joginapally Santosh Kumar.
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Assam Environment Minister lays foundation stone of Biodiversity Park in G
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Sivasagar (Assam) [India], September 8 (ANI): Forests and Environment Minister Parimal Suklabaidiya on Monday laid the foundation stone of another biodiversity park 'Sahitya Manishi Upaban' in Geleki Reserve Forest in Assam's Sivsagar.
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Coercive measures against DJB if directions to plant 500 trees not complie
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 7 (ANI): The National Green Tribunal has asked Principal Chief Conservator of Forests to take coercive measures against the Delhi Jal Board if it fails to comply with directions of planting 500 trees of native species in the natioal capital within one month.
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China funding terror groups by putting African rosewood on verge of extinc
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
London [UK], September 7 (ANI): China's reckless pillaging of forests in Africa has left the rosewood species on the verge of extinction and helped to fund terror groups, according to experts.
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Valley fire spreads over 500 acres in San Diego County
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
San Diego [US], September 6 (ANI/Sputnik): Wildfire has spread over 500 acres in San Diego County, threatening local communities, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire).
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