revealed that while 13 districts in West Bengal have shown an increase in forest cover, 10 districts have experienced a decline. He was responding to a query from BJP MP Samik Bhattacharya in the ...

West Bengal's forest cover has declined in 10 districts, as per ISFR 2023, mainly due to tree harvesting by farmers. Listen to Story 13 districts in West Bengal see forest cover rise, 10 decline ...

The model can analyze data and create precise maps highlighting landslide-prone ... tested the model in the Sub-Himalayan region of West Bengal, India—an area heavily affected by landslides.

Researchers from the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), together with international partners, have developed a new framework that significantly improves landslide prediction ...

If the usual suspects in poaching are subsistence hunters, touts scouting forest settlements to fix deals and impoverished ... border in Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh, and Siliguri in West Bengal. To the ...

Banners placed in and around the Khoai Sonajhuri forest area featuring the West Bengal government logo mention that playing with colours, filming videos or parking vehicles in the reserved forest ...

Siliguri (West Bengal) [India], March 9 (ANI): A carcass ... According to Rahul Deb Mukherjee, Assistant Divisional Forest Officer (ADFO), a fight broke out between a tusker (elephant with tusks ...

Mushrooms found in the forests of Bankura and Birbhum in West Bengal could become a game-changer in cancer treatment. According to an article published in the science journal Nature, ‘kurkure ...

The state forest department will bring in some new animals at the North Bengal Wild Animal Park on the outskirts of ... A pair of mandrills — large colourful monkeys native to west central Africa — ...

The West Bengal Assembly on Wednesday (March 19, 2025) passed a Bill to allow women to work in bars. The West Bengal Finance Bill, 2025, was tabled by MoS Chandrima Bhattacharya in the Assembly.