The Uttarakhand high court on Tuesday directed the principal chief conservator of forests (PCCF) of the state to personally appear before it on Wednesday and explain the steps taken by the ...

A combination of heatwave conditions, dry weather, and poorly equipped responders has led to a fivefold increase in major forest fires in Uttarakhand this year.

He said, “The Uttarakhand government has urged FC to consider income distance (at 40%), population (15%), area (20%), forest and ecology (20%), Total Fertility Rate (state government has urged ...

After Kerala and Uttarakhand, Goa has the third highest per hectare growing stock in forest in the country, as per the India State of the Forest Report (ISFR) 2021 of the Forest Survey of India.

IMAGE: The Sattal Lake in Bhimtal, Uttarakhand, is surrounded by pine and oak trees. Photograph: Kind courtesy Alosh Bennett/Creative Commons O ver the next few days, I improved marginally.

The Research wing of the Uttarakhand Forest Department has established Uttarakhand's first-ever Butterfly gallery at the Nature Education Centre, Jolly Grant in Dehradun.

IMAGE: An IAF helicopter fills Bambi Bucket to douse the raging forest fire in the forests of Advani by taking water from the Alaknanda River in Srinagar, Uttarakhand, May 8, 2024.

Uttarakhand forest fire: As the wildfires rage on in various forest areas of Uttarakhand, the relentless blaze has claimed another life of an elderly woman, bringing the death count to five thus far.

Four forest workers who went to extinguish the blaze in Binsar forest in Uttarakhand’s Almora were charred to death while four others sustained injuries, officials said on Thursday (June 13).

The Uttarakhand High Court last week stayed till December 15 all further construction activities in Jilling Estate, a small hamlet in Nainital district.