Several cases of unauthorised felling of sandalwood trees have been reported from private plantations in Jaisinghpur and ...

Forest department sources said the Chandrakala reserve forest, spread over 1,500 acres of land near Ambaragoppa in Shikaripur taluk, has over 26,000 sandalwood trees on 100 hectares of land.

The BMC conducted the inspection to evaluate the environmental impact of the proposed tree removal on biodiversity and the ...

Earlier, only the forest department had the authority to ... Sought for their aromatic wood and oil, sandalwood trees are considered highly-valuable. A 15-year-old tree fetches more than Rs ...

All Karnataka Sandalwood and Forestry Growers’ Association president K. Amar Narayana, IAS officer (retd), has urged the Karnataka government to grant authority to the Horticulture Department to ...