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May
  • IFGTB hosts ‘Western Ghats Unboxed’ event to mark International Museum Day in Coimbatore | The Hindu - 15 May 2025

  • Forest dept puts in place jumbo warning system | Times of India - 15 May 2025

  • Forest dept to conduct wildlife census in Gautala | Times of India - 12 May 2025

  • 1 lakh more trees to enhance forest cover in KK region | Times of India - 11 May 2025

  • April
  • Tamil Nadu forest fire guts rare medicinal herbs | Times of India - 01 April 2025

  • Rapid development, shrinking green cover:  Why forest conservation cannot wait | The Indian Express - 18 April 2025 

  • Tamil Nadu working on a blueprint to protect the ‘feathered foresters’ that restore ecology | The Hindu - 02 April 2025

  • March
  • Public meeting to discuss diseased tree felling | BBC - 17 March 2025

  • Awareness programme on prevention of forest fires held in Tirupattur | The Hindu - 16 March 2025

  • After SC prod, Haryana to set up expert panel to map forest-like areas | Times of India - 16 March 2025

  • How a Chennai school campus was transformed into a mini-forest | DT Next - 15 March 2025

  • Indias forest and tree cover expands, now covering 25.17% of countrys geographical area | DD News - 13 March 2024

  • 210 cr trees planted in 8 years, states forest cover has increased UP CM | Business Standards - 13 March 2025

  • Forest Department trains frontline staff to identify rare, endangered, threatened plants | The Hindu - 12 March 2025

  • Will increase forest cover to 20% in next 2 decades: Min | Times of India - 12 March 2025

  • AI-powered system deployed in Tehri forest to curb human-wildlife conflict | Times of India - 10 March 2025

  • February
  • Govt to hold study on sapling survival rate to chalk out future conservation strategies | Times of India - 27 February 2025

  • Forest fire continues along Tamil Nadu Kerala border near Coimbatore | The Hindu - 27 February 2025

  • New features on Parivesh 2.0 to help fast-track forest clearances | Hindustan Times - 27 February 2025

  • Tiny forest with 600 trees to be planted in park | BBC - 27 February 2025

  • A new spatial mechanism for coexistence: Hidden patterns in tree distribution stabilize biodiversity in forests | Phys Org - 26 February 2025
  • Specify action on state’s plan to divert 80ha forest land in Chandrapur’s tiger corridor for mining: NGT tells forest ministry | Times of India - 26 February 2025

  • Forest dept awaits state govt’s notification for Velhe-Mulshi conservation reserve | Times of India - 23 February 2025

  • Nature’s comeback: Bastar marks major improvement in forest cover_ ISFR 2023 report | Times of India - 22 February 2025 

  • Planting a future: Bengalurus employees come up with urban forest initiative | Times of India - 22 February 2025

  • Bengaluru forest dept rejects mining proposals in virgin forest areas | Times of India - 20 February 2025

  • Public private partnerships build urban forests | Mongabay - 20 February 2025

  • Oxygen Park at proposed Punawale garbage depot still a distant dream for residents | Pune Times Mirror - 17 February 2025

  • MP forest dept releases newsletter to mark 2 successful years of cheetah introduction | Times of India - 17 February 2025

  • Mitigation strategies to prevent forest fires being implemented in Nilgiris forest division | The Hindu - 19 February 2025

  • ‘15,700km of new fire lines created to check forest fires’ | Times of India - 17 February 2025

  • Forest dept constitutes spl team to prevent forest fires in Chamundi Hills | Times of India - 14 February 2025

  • Forest dept coughs up 150cr for crop damage by wildlife every year | Times of India - 15 February 2025

  • Trees are losing the battle against climate change | Earth.com - 16 February 2025

  • Unprecedented forest fires threaten Kashmir’s green cover due to dry spell | Rising Kashmir - 18 February 2025

  • State animals’ decline raises concern, CG’s forest dept plans conservation | Times of India - 16 February 2025

  • NFMP bags SKOCH award for forest and environmental conservation | Times of India - 17 February 2025

  • Green cover in India absorbed more carbon than it emitted annually: Study | Business Standard - 15 February 2025

  • Forest dept goes for drone surveillance, tribal collaboration | Times of India - 13 February  2025

  • Forest dept gears up to plant 35 cr saplings in annual drive | Times of India - 16 February 2025

  • January
  • Awareness campaign in Gajapati to prevent forest fires | Times of India - 25 January 2025

  • Experts call for increased community awareness in preventing forest fires | Rising Kashmir - 29 January 2025

  • CM bats for promoting Telangana’s natural forests | The Hindu - 28 January 2025

  • Obtaining permission mandatory for filming in forests: Karnataka Minister | The Hindu - 24 January 2025

  • Geo-tagged digital identity helps Kashmir’s famous chinar trees stand tall | The Hindu - 25 January 2025

  • Six sites developed as urban forest areas in Bihar | Times of India - 25 January 2025

  • Environmental activist warns of rising forest fires in Western Ghats amid climate change concerns | Times of India - 25 January 2025

  • Forest dept to revise boundary of Nahargarh sanctuary | Times of India - 24 January 2025

  • Govt to launch campaign to restore Sal forest in Tangail: Rizwana  | BSS News - 28 January 2025

  • World’s largest banyan tree is in India and it’s called a Living Coffin | Times of India - 28 January 2025
  • Forest dept defied SC by presenting eco-sensitive zone proposal:  BJP leader | Times of India - 22 January 2025

  • Natural causes behind tigers’ deaths: Forest dept. | The Hindu -  22 January 2025

  • Communities in Shigao strive to save sacred groves as farming shrinks forests | Times of India - 22 January 2025

  • MCD to Plant 1,000 Trees in West Delhi After Excessive Pruning Allegations | Urban Acres - 22 January 2025

  • Banyan to neem, certain tree species can combat dust, air pollution: Study | Times of India - 22 January 2025

  • Chinar trees in J&K get Digital Tree Aadhar: 28K trees documented in four years | Rising Kashmir - 21 January 2025
  • Wildfire ravages Western Ghats forest, hundreds of acres destroyed | Dajiiworld - 21 January 2025

  • Plea to revoke G.O. banning grazing and rearing in forest areas | The Hindu  - 21 January 2025

  • Activists slam destructive Indonesia forest conversion plan | Phys Org - 20 January 2025

  • Tracking the recovery of forest bird communities after protected area establishment in Amazonia | Phys Org - 21 January 2025

  • Two-stage inspection to combat single-use plastic in Mysuru forests - | The Times of India - 20 January 2025

  • CM asks Centre to accord speedy Forest and Environment clearances to projects  | The Hindu - 16 January 2025

  • T.N. govt. to stop planting exotic Conocarpus trees | The Hindu - 17 January 2025

  • 3D protein shapes can resolve ancient evolutionary connections in tree of life | Phys Org - 15 January 2025
  • Launching the global map of Vietnamese tree planting | Vietnam Investment Review - 15 January 2025
  • Forest Dept. to relocate Sheribikanahalli hamlet from Chincholi Wildlife Sanctuary | The Hindu - 15 January 2025

  • Experts & greens back forest amendment bill | Times of India - 11 January 2025

  • California’s wildfire tragedy: A wake-up call for India’s forest fire management | The Pioneer - 16 January 2025