With Gadchiroli in eastern Maharashtra reporting the highest number of wildfires among districts in the country, the state forest department is taking several preventive steps using technology and ...

Indonesia’s deforestation is once again rising after several years of decline, with 2024 marking the highest rate since 2021.

In India, tigers haven't just survived they're making a comeback. Despite a growing population and increasing pressure on their habitats, the number of wild tigers is rising. The reason? According to ...

The Indonesian government is targeting protected forest areas as part of its plan to convert 20 million hectares (50 million ...

ONE OF THE DIFFICULTIES of being alive on earth in the age of climate catastrophe is that we find ourselves in the peculiar position of mourning the future.

In a stern warning, the Supreme Court on Monday restrained the Centre and state governments from reducing forest areas ...

The ISFR is released biennially and involves forest cover mapping of the country using satellite data. With data computed through wall-to-wall mapping of India’s forest cover through remote sensing ...

Over the last eight decades, the country has lost about 60–70 percent of its forest cover due to logging, mining, population growth, and other man-made factors. However, according to the country ...

Sourced by the Telegraph Fourteen Maoists, including five women and a commander carrying a bounty of ₹1 crore, have been gunned down in the past 24 hours by security forces inside a forest along ...

Forest cover mapping must adopt a plural approach, allowing users to merge and unmerge categories rather than provide a single category and number. These maps of the uncultivated half of India must be ...