Forest
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Female elephant brought to Shivamogga camp for breeding
News | March 05, 2021 12:35 ISTFemale elephant, Kaneni was brought to Sakrebyle Elephant Camp in Shivamogga from Muruga mutt in Chitradurga district for breeding.
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TMC's Rajib Banerjee resigns, may join BJP
News | January 22, 2021 14:48 ISTIn a big jolt to West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee, TMC's Rajib Banerjee resigned from his office as Forest Minister on Friday, ahead of the upcoming West Bengal Assembly election. Rajib Banerjee, who was in charge of the forest department in the Bengal government, will join the Bharatiya Janata Party during Amit Shah's upcoming visit to the poll-bound state, sources told India TV. Shah is expected to visit West Bengal from January 30 to 31.
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8-ft-long King Cobra rescued in Karnataka's Shivamogga
News | December 10, 2020 8:01 ISTAn eight-foot long King Cobra was rescued in Karnataka's Shivamogga.
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Javadekar chairs webinar on International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies
News | September 07, 2020 19:23 ISTUnion Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar on September 07 held a webinar on International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies.
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World Environment Day: India launches Nagar Van project to create urban forest in 200 cities
India | June 05, 2020 11:03 ISTOn World Environment Day, India has launched an ambitious project to create urban forest cover which will act as green lungs in 200 cities across the country. There is a need to increase forest cover in urban areas to create and enhance their lung capacities, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Friday at an event to mark World Environment Day, which was organised virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Uttarakhand Police files FIR for spreading fake news regarding forest fire
News | May 27, 2020 22:10 ISTUttarakhand Police have filed FIR against some people for spreading fake news regarding forest fire in the state.
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Massive hunt on for killer leopard in Karnataka Tumakuru
India | May 17, 2020 7:18 ISTA massive hunt is on to capture a leopard, which killed a 75-year-old woman at a village in the wee hours of Saturday on the forest fringe in Karnataka's Tumakuru district, the police said.
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Watch: Forest officials rescue leopard in UP's Amroha
News | May 15, 2020 13:14 ISTA leopard was rescued from UP's Amroha on May 14. With the help of forest team, locals rescued the wild cat.
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Biker escapes life-threatening encounter with elephant | Watch
India | February 08, 2020 15:37 ISTA biker escaped a life-threatening encounter with an elephant while he was crossing a road despite officials blocking the way and traffic behind him waiting patiently and yards away. An IFS officer also tweeted the thrilling video showing elephant chasing the biker.
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Total tree, forest cover in country increases by 5,188 sq km: Forest Report
India | December 30, 2019 14:06 ISTWhile releasing the report, Javadekar said that there is an increase of 42.6 million tonnes in the carbon stock of the country as compared to the last assessment of 2017.
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SC allows felling of 452 trees for Delhi-Agra rail line
India | December 11, 2019 13:32 ISTThe Supreme Court has allowed for felling of trees on the condition that saplings be planted as part of the afforestation drive, under a strictly monitored process
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Japanese green belting method comes to Chennai
India | November 28, 2019 8:40 ISTIn order to reduce environmental pollution and to improve the air quality, Miyawaki forests will be grown in the city, said S.P. Velumani, Minister for Municipal Administration, Rural Development and Implementation of Special Programme.
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Blood stained body of man found in Rajasthan forest
India | October 22, 2019 16:24 ISTAbdul Vahid, who lived in Kagajidevera area of the district, went missing on Monday evening after he left home to attend a wedding in Alod village, Station Hose Officer (SHO) Shivraj Gurjar said.
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Supreme Cour slams UP government for 26 years' silence on forest land
India | September 19, 2019 16:06 ISTThe court's remarks came while hearing the Uttar Pradesh government plea seeking a blanket order for quashing all the orders passed by Forest Settlement Officers from 1994 onwards, allowing industries to operate in the Renukoot-Mirzapur reserve forest area.
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Noida administration, private partners plan 92-acre forest in Jewar, MoU inked
India | September 05, 2019 16:12 ISTA memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between the administration, Haldiram Education Society (HES) and Jaypee Infratech Limited (JIL) on Wednesday for this, the officials said.
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Scientists discover 260 million-year-old Antarctica forest that existed long before dinosaurs
Science | November 13, 2017 22:26 ISTThe scientists uncovered fossil fragments of 13 long deceased trees dating from the end of the Permian Period, some 260 million years ago.
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Eleven active wildfires rage in Portugal
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Conversion of forest land weakening monsoons in India, claims research; warns against deforestation
India | August 25, 2016 12:17 ISTLarge scale conversion of forest land into crop land is a major reason behind the weakening of monsoon in the north-eastern and north-central India, a recent study conducted at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
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Japan praises boy who survived alone in jungle for a week without food
World | June 04, 2016 0:00 ISTTokyo (Japan): A nationwide joy and relief came out on Friday after knowing that a 7-year-old Japanese boy remarkably survived after being abandoned in a forest by his parents who wanted to teach him a
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Uttarakhand looks to rain gods for dousing forest fires
India | May 02, 2016 14:03 ISTLucknow/Dehradun: After several sorties by MI-17 choppers trying to douse the forest fires in Uttarakhand were aborted at many places on Sunday owing to "poor visibility and thick smoke", the state government was pinning its
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