A study conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology Indore in association with Indian Institute of Forest Management ...

Botanists have found a stand of rare trees in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa.

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 ...

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.

According to the India State of Forest Report (ISFR) 2023, Assam’s forest cover has decreased by nearly 84 sq km between 2021 and 2023, with the total area under forest and tree cover in the state now ...

Only a handful of small sawmills exist in Kenya today, however, and the country’s new constitution aims to bring national forest cover back to a minimum of 10 per cent from almost complete destruction ...

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 ...