Suvendu orders crackdown on illegal sawmills, timber smugglers as Forest Week begins
The Chief Minister stressed that survival of saplings was more important than the number planted.
The Chief Minister stressed that survival of saplings was more important than the number planted.
A drive by the Forest Department to demolish illegal prawn dykes inside the Bhitarkanika National Park was halted on Wednesday after villagers staged a protest at Karandiapatana village under Mahakalapada Forest Range in Odisha's Kendrapara district, claiming they have depended on shrimp farming for their livelihood for decades.
In yet another glaring case of alleged negligence in monitoring and surveillance by field staff of the Madhya Pradesh Forest Department, a radio-collared adult tiger that was recently rescued from a village and released into the jungle was found dead in the buffer zone of the Panna Tiger Reserve (PTR) in Madhya Pradesh.
The animal was first sighted in Hawai Nagar in the early hours and later moved towards Birsa Chowk, disrupting traffic and forcing residents to remain indoors.
Environmentalist Subhash Dutta has written to the District Magistrate of Birbhum, Dhabal Jain, seeking a ban on the playing colours at the Sonajhuri forest in Santiniketan during Basant Utsav.
According to forest officials, the incident took place at Katiyara Baba Kutia, located under the Katarniaghat forest division on Sunday night .
The incident was reported from the Jaisinghnagar area.
The forest department on Sunday arrested 16 marine fishermen and seized a sea-worthy fishing trawl from the waters of the Gahirmatha marine sanctuary in Kendrapara district on charges of illegally fishing within the turtle congregation zone, an official said.
The meeting chaired by Bhaskar Jyoti Sarma, Principal Secretary of the FE&CC Department focused on the expeditious processing of Forest Diversion Proposals.
The Forest Department team on Tuesday morning successfully captured the leopard that had been terrorizing the Mahsi tehsil area of Bahraich district for the past month.
