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.
In a proactive effort to curb this recurring crisis, the Forest Department has formed 60 teams comprising local villagers to prevent and control fires. Each team consists of 15 members and has received financial assistance of Rs 75,000 to procure essential firefighting equipment.
Durgapur forest department and Burdwan divisional forest department have jointly seized an inter-state bus and have arrested the driver
He visited Pong Dam on Sunday and also toured the ancient temples at the famous tourist site, Bathu-Ki-Lari.
Rahamdah village has been surrounded from different sides like a fortress to prevent the three-and-a-half-year-old tigress Zeenat from entering at night to kill cattle.
In a bid to arrest human- crocodile conflict in villages, lying in the vicinity of Bhitarkanika National Park, the Odisha forest department has undertaken a massive awareness campaign to sensitise the people not to venture into croc-infested water bodies.
