Full Coverage: Forests

28.02.2006 With only a few hundreds left in the wild, the wild buffalos (Bubalus Bubalis) in India could soon turn extinct unless an urgent action for their conservation is initiated. Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) in collaboration with the Chattisgarh forest department started a three year plan for its revival from the present small population in the state.

20.02.2006 People living in the foothills of Mt Mayapay, southern Philippines, earlier this month expressed concern that their denuded mountain could be the source of a mudslide which would destroy them. Now, in another part of that country a similar deforested mountain has collapsed causing a massive mudslide that has buried a village and killed some 1700 people, including many children.

15.02.2006 The Cabinet today recommended to the President for the Maldives to become party to the International Treaty on Plant and Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. The decision was taken at todayÂ’s meeting of the Cabinet after members had deliberated on a paper presented by the Ministry of Fisheries, Agriculture and Marine Resources.

10.02.2006 A coalition of four leading environmental groups, along with industry leaders and indigenous groups, are celebrating success after a decade-long campaign to protect the globally unique Great Bear Rainforest, in British Columbia, Canada.

08.02.2006 An agreement between government, environmental groups, First Nations and logging companies has saved Canada's Great Bear Rainforest - "one of the world's treasures" - from destruction, says a leading environmental group.