The Timber portal will streamline permissions for timber cutting and ensure compliance with the Kerala Promotion of Tree Growth in Non-Forest Areas Act, 2005. It will simplify the process for ...

Kerala has achieved the highest increase in forest cover outside the recorded forest area in India over the past decade, as reported in the India State of Forest Report (ISFR) 2023. Between 2013 ...

KOCHI: The Kerala Forest Amendment Bill -- notified by the government on November 1 -- has triggered an outrage among farmers, who allege that the bill giving unbridled power to forest officers ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Even as there is growing opposition towards the Kerala Forest Amendment Bill, the state government has not received even a single complaint or amendment to the draft legislation.

Catholic bishops of the Eastern rite Syro-Malabar Church have opposed changes to the forest law in southern Kerala state, saying the move could harm farmers amid a rising man-animal conflict. The ...