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Oilseed production boost can cut imports : The Tribune India
Devinder Sharma Food & Agriculture Specialist A few days before the Union Cabinet approved the Rs 11,040-crore National Mission on Edible Oils-Oil Palm (NMEO-OP) to incentivise domestic production of palm…
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Deforestation in Colombia’s Amazon: Outlining the Problem
Deforestation is the most visible face of environmental crime in Colombia’s Amazon. From around 2016, the region’s forests registered accelerating encroachment and destruction. According to the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies…
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Calls mount for Indonesian ban on new palm oil plantations to be extended
Calls are mounting from within the government and civil society for Indonesia’s ban on new oil palm plantations, in force since 2018 and set to expire this September, to be extended. They argue…
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Plan to plant a billion trees yet to take root three years after target set
In September 2018, the federal government unveiled a plan to radically expand Australia’s timber plantations by one billion trees over a decade. Today, less than 1 per cent of that goal has been…
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Durg forest division plans reforestation over 2,500 acres
The forest department has planned reforestation in Durg, Chhattisgarh, in the periphery of the Nandini mines of the Bhilai Steel Plant. Good quality reforestation can be one of the strategies to mitigate climate…
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Up to half of world’s wild tree species could be at risk of extinction | Trees and forests
Between a third and half of the world’s wild tree species are threatened with extinction, posing a risk of wider ecosystem collapse, the most comprehensive global stocktake to date warns. Forest clearance for…
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Sense of Place: A mining distraction | Opinion
I intended to write this column about the mining heritage of the Tennessee Overhill, but I became distracted while researching. Real historians warn against such behavior. They call it “going down a rabbit…
