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Paperitalo Environmental News
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Data Focus: Forest land under scrutiny as MP, Odisha top non-forest use approvals
The total forest and tree cover is 8,27,357sq km, which is 25.17 per cent of the geographical area of the country
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DEEPAK KR
The Supreme Court, in a judgment, last week directed Chief Secretaries of States and Administrators of Union … Wednesday, May 21, 2025 10:21 am EDT
| | | NCR landowners key to Sarawak’s forest carbon strategy, says SFD
A section of the 150 attendees photographed during the seminar.
BINTULU (May 21): Sarawak continues to strengthen its commitment to climate change mitigation by engaging Native Customary Rights (NCR) landowners as strategic partners in the implementation … Wednesday, May 21, 2025 10:21 am EDT
| | | IAS Officers Can't Write ACRs Of Indian Forest Service Officers Up To APCCF Rank : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Wednesday (May 21) ruled that officers in the Indian Administrative Service cannot write the Annual Confidential Reports (ACRs) of Indian Forest Service(IFS) officers up to the rank of Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests … Wednesday, May 21, 2025 10:21 am EDT
| | | Large Underage Drinking Party in NYS Forest Shut Down
What started as a quiet night in the woods quickly turned into a full-blown bust. A party deep in Upstate New York drew a growing crowd of underage drinkers—thanks in part to social media—and by the time Forest Rangers arrived, it was clear this wasn’t … Wednesday, May 21, 2025 10:21 am EDT
| | | More trees in the Wayne National Forest will be cut due to Trump administration executive order
The Trump administration wants to increase timber harvesting in the more than 100 million acres of national forests and is targeting Ohio's only national forest as part of the effort.
Ohio is home to one national forest, the Wayne National Forest, at … Wednesday, May 21, 2025 10:21 am EDT
| | | Wildfires push forest destruction to 20-year high just as EU delays anti-deforestation rules
“This should be a wake-up call,” said Elizabeth Goldman, co-director of the WRI’s Global Forest Watch, noting that to reach this 2030 goal, global deforestation would need to decrease by 20 percent every year until the end of the decade.
EU regulation … Wednesday, May 21, 2025 10:21 am EDT
| | | Inside the high-stress environment that is working for a Premier League club's medical team
As a physio, when you run onto the pitch to treat an injured player, you’ve usually got about 30 seconds to a minute to work out what’s going on.
Sitting pitchside, you’ve seen the incident — a tackle, a collision, a kick — and experience gives you a good … Wednesday, May 21, 2025 10:21 am EDT
| | | Swiss NGO blames govt policy change for Upper Baram Forest Area project’s termination
BMF claimed government policy change over logging core protection zone was the real reason for the termination of the ITTO-supported UBFA. — Photo from Facebook/Bruno Manser Fonds
MIRI (May 21): Swiss non-governmental organisation (NGO) Bruno Manser … Wednesday, May 21, 2025 10:21 am EDT
| | | Lake Forest Schools announce state award for DPM Green Team's rain barrel project
Lake Forest Schools have announced that the Deer Path Middle School Green Team secured third place in the Illinois Green Schools Project for their rain barrel water conservation initiative.
According to Lake Forest Schools, twenty students from Deer Path … Wednesday, May 21, 2025 10:21 am EDT
| | | Amazon fires drive unprecedented global forest loss in 2024, report says
SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Massive fires fueled by climate change led global forest loss to smash records in 2024, according to a report issued on Wednesday.
Loss of tropical pristine forests alone reached 6.7 million hectares (16.6 million acres), an 80% spike … Wednesday, May 21, 2025 10:21 am EDT
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