Forestry is in the concurrent list of the constitution of India. Both the central the state Governments can make laws relating to forest management. Forest fire prevention is an important function of the Forest Protection Division in the Ministry of Environment andVK...
Sudeesh S and Reddy C S 2013 Forest fire monitoring in Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve, Andhra Pradesh, India using geospatial techniques; Natl. Acad. Sci. Lett. 36(4) 437-446.Sudeesh S, Reddy CS (2013) Forest fire monitoring in Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve, Andhra Pradesh...
Forest fire is a major cause of changes in forest structure and function. Among various floristic regions, the northeast region of India suffers maximum from the fires due to age-old practice of shifting culti- vation and spread of fires from jhum fields. For proper mitigation and management,...
As a precautionary measure, the forest department has banned tourist movement into the area. "We are closely monitoring the forest fire in Bandipur. The forest minister is overseeing the situation, while officials and fire service personnel are trying to contain the blaze. I have instructed offici...
. Small-scale farmers clear forests by burning them and then grow crops in thesoilsfertilized by the ashes. Typically, the land produces for only a few years and then must be abandoned and new patches of forest burned. Fire is also commonly used to clear forests inSoutheast Asia, tropical ...
In 2002, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF) established Manggala Agni, a forest fire management organization, at the central government level. This study aims to explain the development of the Indonesian Forest and Land Fire Prevention Patrol System. The system development was ...
MUMBAI, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- Another forest fire broke out in Karadimatti and Kucchalu Reserve Forest of Thirthahalli sub-district in India's southwestern Karnataka late Monday. Spread over 20 hectares, the fire was doused by forest officials with the help of local villagers, media reports ...
Designing of Forest-Fire Disaster Preventing System Based on Remote Sensing and GIS techniques in Henan Province Forest-fire disasters occurs frequently in Henan Province, and great damage has been caused by forest-fire disasters.Without an effective countermeasure ag... X Zhang 被引量: 24发表: 20...
tocopewith seasonally dry weather, forming tropical deciduous forests. In the drier and more fire-prone places,savannasand tropicalgrasslandsdeveloped. Retreat of the rainforests was particularly rapid during the period beginning5,000,000years ago leading up to and including thePleistoceneIce Ages, or...
In the last two decades, Nepal has experienced an increase in both forest fire frequency and area, but very little is known about its spatiotemporal dimension. A limited number of studies have researched the extent, timing, causative parameters, and vuln