beautification of Panaji'smunicipal garden, jointly by the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) and theGoa Forest Development Corporation (GFDC), saw four trees being felled onTuesday. A fifth tree will face the axe on Wednesday."Three acaciatrees and one ashoka tree have been cut on Tuesday and another acacia tree willbe cut tomorrow," Mayor Carolina Po told TOI on Tuesday evening.Poalso rubbished...
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Artificial Christmas Tree Can Make the Holidays Even Brighter-- Real Christmas Trees Cost Three Times More Than Artificial TreesWhile it looks like the long, crippling recession is lifting, it has forced consumers to rethink the way they spend their hard earned money. When considering the purchase of a Christmas tree this year, the facts are clear—artificial Christmas trees save real money over the...
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Nagpur MunicipalCorporation (NMC) has failed to nail any offender for cutting down trees in thecity as yet. So, it won't come as a surprise if NMC fails to pin a chargeagainst the latest offender, the forest department!One of the twoincidents of tree felling reported in the city on Saturday is attributed to theforest department. The department is supposed to be the custodian of forests andthe green...
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COLUMBIA, S.C. - The recession is downsizing everything — even South Carolina's Statehouse Christmas tree.This year's tree is about 30-feet tall and doesn't even reach the top of the Confederate soldiers' monument on the capitol's front lawn."We're like nonprofits and other groups everywhere. We've got to be a little more careful with our money," said Jane Suggs with the Columbia Garden Club, which...
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Recession means smaller Christmas tree for SC < ');" class="arial11blue1"> RateSouth Carolina's Statehouse Christmas tree is shorter than usual and doesn't even reach above the roughly 25-foot Confederate soldiers' monument on the front lawn.The Columbia Garden Club says it typically buys trees in North Carolina, but this year found a cheaper dealer in Pennsylvania. The shipping caused problems, however,...
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Raising Silver Oak trees within the coffee plantations as shade trees would prove disastrous to the Coffee growing areas, according to a research conducted by the Center for Wild Life Sciences of the Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc).Addressing a conference jointly organised by the United Planters Association of South India (UPASI) and Karnataka Planters Association (KPA) here today, Coffee Board...
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PUNE:Environmentalists are up in arms against the Pimpri-Chinchwad MunicipalCorporation's plan to cut 544 trees, including a 200-year-old banyan tree, fordeveloping a BRTS route from Kalewadi phata to Dehu-Alandi road.Theproposed 11.2-km BRT route will begin from Kalewadi phata road on Aundh-Ravetroad and will terminate at Dehu-Alandi road. The PCMC plans to widen this roadto 45 metres by cutting 544...
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Raising Silver Oak Trees within the coffee plantations as shade trees would prove disastrous to the coffee growing areas, a research conducted by the Centre for Wild Life Sciences of the Indian Institute of Sciences(IISc) said today.Talking to newspersons here, jointly organised by the United Planters Association of South India (UPASI) and Karnataka Planters Association(KPA) here, Coffee Board Chairman...
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trees cut down include rain tree, spathodia, cane bamboos and shoe flower planted byKATTAPPANA: The Forest Department will take action against those who cut down tree saplings on either side of the bypass road here two days back.The workers were reportedly engaged in road-widening works under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP).P. U. Saju, Assistant Forest Conservator (Social...
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Raising Silver Oak trees within the coffee plantations as shade trees would prove disastrous to the Coffee growing areas, according to a research conducted by the Center for Wild Life Sciences of the Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc).Addressing a conference jointly organised by the United Planters Association of South India (UPASI) and Karnataka Planters Association (KPA) here today, Coffee Board...
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