Many tree species endemic to the Cardamom Hill Reserve (CHR) area are under severe threat with the plantations widely pruning the branches for the cardamom crop to get direct sunlight. The CHR area of ...

Idukki: After the revenue department issued the tree cutting order last October, tree felling was rampant in Cardamom Hills Reserve (CHR) lands in Idukki. Environmentalists fear this will cause ...

When the huge trees in a cardamom plantation at Thondimala, near Poopara, close to the ecologically sensitive Mathikettan shola began to dry up last week, the officials of the Forest Department took ...

Farmers in eastern Tanzania are regrowing rainforest trees on part of their land. The farmers receive payments from the sale of carbon credits to supplement their incomes and to compensate them for ...

A 37-year-old cardamom estate worker was killed after a tree branch fell on her at Palanikkavu near Anavilasom in Idukki. The incident occurred around 10am on Thursday. The deceased has been ...