UDHAGAMANDALAM, India (AP) — Forests of native trees and plants once blanketed the Western Ghats mountains in southern India, but nearly 200 years ago, British colonists installed rows upon rows ...
“What we’re trying to do is to help nature restore itself.” Environmentalists say industrial-scale tea farming has destroyed the soil’s nutrients and led to conflict with animals like elephants and ...
or Indian bison, that have little forest left to live in. Estimates say nearly 135,000 acres of tea have been planted across the mountains, damaging close to 70% of native grasslands and forests.
Environmentalists say industrial-scale tea farming has destroyed the soil’s nutrients and led to conflict with animals like elephants and gaur, or Indian bison, that have little forest left to ...
UDHAGAMANDALAM, India (AP) — Scattered groves of native ... It takes decades, but their efforts are finally starting to see results as forests flourish despite ecological damage and wilder ...
New Delhi, Nov 18 (PTI) The Union Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) and Forest Survey of India (FSI) have refuted the data of the Global Forest Watch monitoring project, which ...
On Earth Day in 2022, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to protect mature and old growth forests on federal lands. But more than two years later, these forests were still being cut ...