Haryana has taken the extraordinary step of defining what constitutes a “dictionary meaning” of forest, 18 months after the Supreme Court ordered states to identify forests using that very phrase’s ...

The FAO lumps non-oil palm tree plantations into its definition of forest cover when conducting its Global Forest Resource Assessments. The assessments analyze land cover change in countries around ...

Gurgaon: Months after the Supreme Court ordered all states and Union territories to define "forest" and map all such areas, not a single survey has been carried out as part of the exercise in Haryana ...

The Haryana government’s decision to go by the ‘dictionary meaning’ of forests has thrown open the doors to wide-ranging debates. On March 4, the Supreme Court directed all states and union ...

Gurgaon: Most of the Aravalis that aren't already protected in Gurgaon and Faridabad – nearly 14,000 acres, the size equivalent of around 8,000 football fields – will not qualify as ‘forest', going by ...

Initial estimates of old-growth and mature forests across all Service and Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) lands The first national inventory of old-growth and mature forests focused specifically on ...

In a notification issued on August 18, the state government defined the expression “forest as per dictionary meaning” with restrictive technical criteria that environmental activists say could exclude ...