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WB: Forest officers seizes 15 Tokay gecko in Alipurduar, 3 arrested
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Jalpaiguri (West Bengal) [India], Sept 16 (ANI): The Belacoba Forest Range Officers have arrested three people and seized 15 Tokay gecko from Dalsinghpara tea estate here.
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Development is important, says Devendra Fadnavis on Aarey forest razing
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], Sept 15 (ANI): Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday said that the government is bound to cut trees in Mumbai's Aarey forest area as "development is important".
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WB: Forest Range Officer creates garden using plastic bottles, rubber tyre
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Midnapore (West Bengal) [India], Sept 15 (ANI): A forest range officer (FRO) of Pirakata Range under Midnapur division has created a beautiful garden using 1,100 waste plastic bottles and rubber tyres.
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Nine lakh youth in Pune benefitted from Mudra scheme: Javadekar
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], Sept 14 (ANI): Union Minister for Environment, Forest & Climate Change and Information & Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar said on Saturday that nine lakh youth from Pune have benefitted from Mudra scheme.
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'Jaldoot' to spread message on water conservation across Maha
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], Sept 14 (ANI): Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Information and Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar here on Saturday flagged off 'Jaldoot', a bus with water conservation exhibition which will travel across eight districts of the state in ne
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India committed towards land restoration: Javadekar
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 13 (ANI): Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar asserted here in a conference organized by United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) on Friday that India is committed for its actions in the country to ensure that
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Tribal eviction case: Brinda Karat writes to Prakash Javadekar over absenc
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 13 (ANI): Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Brinda Karat on Friday wrote a letter to Union Minister Prakash Javadekar expressing disappointment over absence of Solicitor General Tushar Mehta during the hearing of an ongoing petition in the Supreme Court challen
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Kejriwal requests Centre to denotify Ravidas temple land
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 11 (ANI): Weeks after activists went on a rampage, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday requested the central government to denotify the forest land to facilitate the construction of Sant Ravidas Temple in Tughlaqabad area in south Delhi.
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Uttarakhand: National Forest Martyrs Day observed at FRI
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], Sept 11 (ANI): The National Forest Martyrs Day was observed here on Wednesday to remember the foresters who laid down their lives to protect forests and wildlife.
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Korea launches PFI at COP14 to create jobs at local level
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 10 (ANI): Korean government on Tuesday launched a Peace Forest Initiative (PFI) at the 14th Conference of Parties (COP) here.
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Climate change a global threat to human rights: Bachelet
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept 10 (ANI): United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Monday said that climate change is a rapidly growing and a global threat to human rights and underlined that incidents like forest fires raging in the Amazon is "burning up our future"
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Modi announces setting up of Centre of Excellence at ICFRE to address land
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 9 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday announced setting up of Centre of Excellence at the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) to promote South-South cooperation for addressing land degradation issues.
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