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Green Oasis Takes Shape in Xinjiang Desert: A Journey Through a Reborn Landscape
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Green Oasis Takes Shape in Xinjiang Desert: A Journey Through a Reborn Landscape

China Daily  

Green efforts in Xinjiang have transformed the barren desert landscape into a vibrant green city. The desert corps has been instrumental in this transformation, investing in artificial afforestation and ecological restoration projects that have increased the forest coverage rate and green space in built-up areas. The result is a thriving city that attracts tourists and offers a glimpse into a …

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Afforestation revivifies landscape in Chishui River area
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Afforestation revivifies landscape in Chishui River area

China Daily  

Foresters carry saplings up a mountain in Zouma village, Taiping town, Gulin county, Sichuan province, in March 2024. This spring, employees from Sichuan Changjiang Forestation Group planted 6 million saplings of various kinds in Gulin county for water conservation and rocky desertification control in the Chishui River area in Sichuan province of Southwest China. Rocky desertification land covers 449,300 hectares …

Sichuan Province Rocky Desertification County Sichuan Chishui River Area Gulin County Chishui River
Afforestation revivifies landscape in Chishui River area
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Afforestation revivifies landscape in Chishui River area

China Daily  

Foresters carry saplings up a mountain in Zouma village, Taiping town, Gulin county, Sichuan province, in March 2024. This spring, employees from Sichuan Changjiang Forestation Group planted 6 million saplings of various kinds in Gulin county for water conservation and rocky desertification control in the Chishui River area in Sichuan province of Southwest China. Rocky desertification land covers 449,300 hectares …

Sichuan Province Rocky Desertification County Sichuan Chishui River Area Gulin County Chishui River
States offer up thousands of hectares of ‘degraded’ forest land for green credits
8 months, 2 weeks ago

States offer up thousands of hectares of ‘degraded’ forest land for green credits

The Hindu  

Weeks after the Union Environment Ministry announced the rules for its Green Credit Programme, ten States have identified parcels of degraded forest land, amounting to about 3,853 hectares, that will be available for individuals, groups, public and private sector units to earn – and potentially trade – green credits. These green credits can then be used by companies which have …

Land Green Forest Forest Land Scheme Credits Afforestation
Green credits scheme: Retd civil servants urge Centre to recall tree plantation notification
9 months ago

Green credits scheme: Retd civil servants urge Centre to recall tree plantation notification

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi, A group of retired civil servants on Tuesday requested the Centre to withdraw a notification issued under the Green Credits Programme, alleging that it would make it easy for corporates to obtain forest land for their projects, leading to an "ecological disaster" and impacting the livelihoods of millions of pastoral and semi-pastoral communities. Notified on February 22, the …

Land Green Forest Forest Land Credits Van Lands
Odisha: State govt to create compensatory afforestation land bank
1 year, 7 months ago

Odisha: State govt to create compensatory afforestation land bank

Hindustan Times  

To facilitate smooth implementation of critical state and central projects requiring diversion of forests, the state government has decided to create a compensatory afforestation land bank of 10,000 hectare. A resolution of Revenue and Disaster Management department said the ‘Compensatory Afforestation Land Bank’ will be created in each district of the state by including degraded revenue forest lands. The lands …

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Centre may allow compensatory afforestation in neighbouring states for forest land diverted in Delhi
2 years, 3 months ago

Centre may allow compensatory afforestation in neighbouring states for forest land diverted in Delhi

India TV News  

The Union environment ministry may allow compensatory afforestation for all developmental projects undertaken in Delhi in neighbouring states in view of the scarcity of land in the capital, sources have said. In March, the DDA wrote to the Union environment ministry, requesting it to allow compensatory afforestation for all projects undertaken in Delhi in neighbouring states in view of the …

Delhi Land Projects Forest Forest Land Ministry Dda
Who goes there?: What we’re getting wrong about afforestation
2 years, 5 months ago

Who goes there?: What we’re getting wrong about afforestation

Hindustan Times  

“Plant a tree” is a carelessly worded slogan, botanists will tell you. New developments — housing and infrastructure projects, roads, settlements — that cut across primary forests “make up for it” by “planting trees” elsewhere. “Unfortunately there is lack of foresight when it comes to figuring out what needs to be done for these programmes to work,” said Manan Bhan, …

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In a first, compensatory afforestation of projects in Andaman to be done in MP
3 years, 11 months ago

In a first, compensatory afforestation of projects in Andaman to be done in MP

Hindustan Times  

In a first, carbon sinks for developments projects in Andaman and Nicobar Islands will be created over 2,000 kilometres away in Madhya Pradesh with the help of the forest department, government officials in the state and the islands said. Madhya Pradesh has about 1,000 degraded forest sites on over 40,000 hectares of land, where compensatory afforestation on behalf of Andaman …

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