Study reveals forest connectivity crucial for biodiversity, with islets at risk of deforestation compared to forest cores.

Forest provides ecosystem services (ES) for community well being through local livelihoods. Tropical sal forest of West Bengal, India is not an exception, rather the tribal communities in forest ...

BARIPADA: As a final measure to capture tigress Zeenat and bring it back to Similipal Tiger Reserve, forest officials have closed all routes within a few kilometre radius of Bankura forest in West ...

A herd of 121 elephants is keeping the Baripada forest division busy. Having arrived from West Bengal in smaller groups, the large-bodied animals are feasting on paddy crops in Baripada, Morada ...

Commercial logging and mining are also driving deforestation in some areas. From 1980-2020, the Miombo lost 800,000 km2 (309,000 mi2), shrinking the area under forest cover by nearly a third.