Tag: Forest fires

Odisha records country’s highest forest fires in a week

The State has registered as many as 533 forest fire cases in the last week, which is the highest forest fire case across the country with 76 incidents on average every day.

February 7, 2023

NDRF forming special teams to handle forest fires in India

The NDRF DG said the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) recently gave the responsibility to his force to form a special team to deal with forest fire incidents, a key issue in forested regions across the country that includes states such as Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

January 19, 2023

2021-22 saw rise in incidence of forest fire in Himachal Pradesh

As many as 5,280 forest fires were reported from November 2021 to June 2022, which saw a rise from 4,110 in November 2020 to June 2021. This is a significant rise from 536 fires reported from November 2019 to June 2020 and is an all-time high forest fires in the last three years.

July 22, 2022

Turkey is under the shock of unprecedented forest fires

"We won't know for sure until an official announcement is made, but this year many forest fires have started at the same time in many different areas, which may be caused by arson," Aydin Tufekcioglu

August 1, 2021

Increasing pressure on hill communities

The entire ecology and even geography of ecologically sensitive regions may be changed entirely within a few decades, without much care or concern for the destructive impacts of such changes.

April 21, 2021

Govt initiatives curb forest fires in Himachal Pradesh

Setting up fire to the forests is a punishable offence of punishment of 2 years or a fine of Rs 5000 or both.

June 29, 2019

Himachal QRT soon to tackle forest fires

"The QRT would be deployed in 80 forest fire sensitive Forest Ranges in the state in addition to forest staff," said Himachal Pradesh Chief Secretary BK Agarwal.

May 9, 2019

Himachal to construct village ponds on priority

Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Saturday directed the Forest department to work with more zeal and dedication for enhancing the green cover of Himachal Pradesh, besides giving fast clearances to the developmental projects of different departments. He was presiding over the review meeting of the Forest department held here. He stressed that the department...

August 4, 2018

Rain brings relief to forest dept, creates trouble for villagers

Heavy rainfall in different parts of Uttarakhand on Friday night helped in completely extinguishing forest fires in the hill state. The forest department was struggling with the forest fires spreading to new areas. A total of 2,003 forest fire incidents have taken place in the Himalayan state this year, gutting about 4265.786 hectares of green...

June 3, 2018

Forest fires rage across J-K following dry winter

Following a dry spell this winter, forest fires have started raging across Jammu and Kashmir with the onset of summer. The phenomenon of forest fires has appeared very early this year. Reports said that massive fires are raging in the forests of Ganderbal, Tangmarg, Bandipura, Kangan, Anantnag, Srinagar, Kupwara and Budgam in the Kashmir Valley...

April 1, 2018

Forest fires cause huge losses every year in HP

Forest minister, Gobind Singh Thakur on Thursday said forest fires have caused financial losses to the tune of around Rs Six Crore in Himachal Pradesh from 2014 to 2017. Replying to a question by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA from Chintpurni, Balbir Singh in the state Assembly, the minister said 3,200 incidents of forest fires...

March 15, 2018

Precautionary measures initiated to check forest fires, villagers alerted

In a bid to check the forest fire several precautionary measures have been initiated informed Deputy Director of Similipal Tiger Reserve, Jagyandatta Pati. The forest department of Mayurbhanj district is geared up to combat forest fire, said officials. At least seven ranges within Baripada, Karanjia and Rairangpur territorial divisions of Similipal Tiger Reserve(STR) and its...

March 10, 2018

43 killed in Portugal forest fires

At least 43 persons were killed and 59 others injured in a catastrophic forest fire in Portugal's Pedrogao Grande area, the media reported on Sunday. Many died while trying to flee the area, 50 km south-east of Coimbra city, in their cars, the BBC quoted government officials as saying. Several firefighters are among the 59...

June 18, 2017

Officials asked to prevent forest fires in Himachal Pradesh

Additional Chief Secretary, Forests, Tarun Kapoor has asked the officials to take measures to prevent forest fires and direct the field staff to be alert. Kapoor asked them to seek cooperation from local people and organizations to combat such incidents. The state is witness to forest fires in summer months, especially in Pine forests as...

April 22, 2017