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Interpol notice on wildlife smuggler

Edit The Hindu 19 Oct 2016
The Interpol has issued a red corner notice against an international wildlife smuggler Jaiy Tamang (42) alias Passang Limi on request of the Madhya Pradesh Forest Department ... Forest Department constituted a special task force (STF) with officer in charge Ritesh ......

Farm prices have gone hog wild

Edit Canada Dot Com 19 Oct 2016
Forest cover in the area at the time was estimated to be as little as four per cent ... The Ontario Woodlot Association promotes healthy intact forests for the future, but the reality is when the land is worth more growing agricultural crops, trees usually lose out." Last month, South Nation Conservation released an analysis of aerial photography of Eastern Ontario from 2008 and 2014 that looked at forest coverage....

Montclair My Word: Let’s prevent fires but not destroy trees

Edit The Mercury News 19 Oct 2016
Forest Service evaluation of the FEMA projects said that the resulting landscape would be more flammable than the existing landscape. “Removal of the eucalyptus overstory would reduce the amount of shading on surface fuels, increase the wind speeds to the forest floor, reduce the relative humidity at the forest floor, increase the fuel temperature and reduce fuel moisture....

100,000 Hectares of Iran’s Forests Destroyed each Year

Edit NCRI 19 Oct 2016
NCRI - In an interview with the Iranian regime’s Parliament News Website on Friday October 14, Abbas Papizadeh, Dezful representative, stated that in the past two decades on average 100,000 hectares of Iran’s forest area has been reduced each year and stressed that the few remaining forests should seriously be protected ... ....

More on Learn

Edit Topix 19 Oct 2016
Wild Kratts "A Huge Orange Problem" While Chris and Martin are off searching for the endangered Orangutan in the deep forests of Borneo, back at the Tortuga HQ Aviva, Koki and Jimmy get carried away swinging on vines and their muscles so get incredibly sore that they can't do anything. The bros attempt to rush back with the first aid kit but a huge orangutan keeps tossing them back into the forest ... ....

Woodland Park-area fire possibly caused by shooting, officials say

Edit Colorado Springs Gazette 19 Oct 2016
The 14-acre fire reported near Rampart Reservoir Monday was human-caused, said Larry Helmerick, the U.S. Forest Service public information officer assigned to the fire ... Crews worked Tuesday on extinguishing hot spots at the site off Rampart Range Road near Forest Service Road 953, southwest of the reservoir. Firefighters had established a partial perimeter around the blaze, which remained 50 percent contained ... ....

Tennessee Forestry Commission to Meet (State of Tennessee)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Oct 2016
(Source. State of Tennessee). Tuesday, October 18, 2016 . 6.38pm ... The Tennessee Forestry Commission comprises seven members representing the public's interests as they relate to forest resources in the state. The commission advises the Tennessee Department of Agriculture on forest issues ... Agriculture ... (noodl....

Melrose’s South of Scotland snub disappoints Craig Chalmers

Edit Scotsman 19 Oct 2016
The Borders club select will play their Caledonia counterparts at Jed-Forest's Riverside Park on Tuesday 8 November but Melrose have refused to release any of their players for the game, citing a heavy fixture schedule ... “The Border League is important to Melrose, and with the match against Jed-Forest at Riverside Park on ......

Caltrans Continues Efforts to Protect Wildlife and Provide Motorists with Safer Route in Sierra County (California Department of Transportation)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Oct 2016
SR-89 goes through the Tahoe National Forest, which covers over 1,300 square miles of woodland, valleys and lakes, and the home to many different kinds of wildlife, including the Loyalton-Truckee mule deer herd ... Caltrans; California Department of Fish and Wildlife; USDA Forest Service (Tahoe National Forest and Pacific Southwest Research Station); ......

Belgian Police Say Brussels Hostage-Taking Over, No One Injured

Edit NDTV 19 Oct 2016
Belgian police said they detained a man who held about 15 people hostage in a supermarket on Tuesday evening in the Brussels suburb of Forest, adding that nobody was harmed. ....

Southern Indiana man dies in logging accident near Salem

Edit Springfield News-Sun 19 Oct 2016
Sidwell was pronounced dead at the scene from head trauma Monday afternoon in Jackson-Washington State Forest ......

Police: Evanston man facing charges following discovery of sawed-off shotgun

Edit Chicago Tribune 19 Oct 2016
An Evanston man on Tuesday is facing felony weapons charges after an officer found him carrying a loaded sawed-off shotgun in a backpack Monday, authorities said Tuesday. Hari H. Lele, 20, of the 1200 block of Forest Avenue in Evanston, was charged with felony aggravated unlawful use of a weapon... ....

Mangaluru briefly

Edit The Hindu 19 Oct 2016
The areas that will be affected are Ambagilu, Santhekatte, Nejaru, Kemmannu, Thenkanidiyur, Badanidiyur, Kelarkalabettu, Kodibengre and surrounding areas Ermal, Nandikur, ......
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