In 2016, the Odisha government was the first to recognise Community Forest Resources (CFRs) inside the Simlipal National Park.What are the Highlights about the Kanger Ghati National Park? Kanger Valley National Park is located in the Bastar district (Near Jagdalpur) of the state of Chhattisgarh....
The Dandakaranya Development Authority was created by the union (central) government in 1958 to assist refugees from what was then East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). It constructed the Bhaskel and Pakhanjore irrigation projects in southwestern Odisha and southern Chhattisgarh, respectively; woodworking ...
To improve water quality and people's living environment, and promote regional sustainable development, the local government has implemented a series of protective policies and measures (Cao et al., 2017), of which decreasing turbidity is an important measure. Therefore, there is an urgent need ...
prior approval of the Central government is required for diversion of forest land to non-forest purposes. Since the enactment of the Act, the rate of diversion of forest land has come down.
It covers major parts of Orissa, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, one complete and three partial districts of Madhya Pradesh, five partial districts from Bihar one district each from West Bengal (Purulia) and Uttar Pradesh (Sonbhadra) covering an area of 10.23% (336,289 km2) with a forest area of16.7...
in dry tropical forests of entire area of Chhattisgarh region of Central India using satellite remote sensing and GIS. Bijalwan et al. (2010a) estimated biomass and carbon in dry tropical forest of Chhattisgarh region in India with the help of satellite remote sensing and GIS technology. The ...
Forest canopy height estimates, at a regional scale, help understand the forest carbon storage, ecosystem processes, the development of forest management and the restoration policies to mitigate global climate change, etc. The recent availability of the NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (...