Beekeeper Muhammad Asif Ali assesses the weight of a honeycomb at Changa Manga Forest in Pakistan’s Eastern Punjab province. | Imran Mukhtar/Thomson Reuters Foundation When authorities started ...

A case has been registered against 27 Forest Department officials by the Anti Corruption Establishment (ACE) over the pilferage of wood from the Changa Manga forest. The FIR was registered on Monday.

LAHORE: The Punjab Forest Department is taking steps to revive and strengthen the province’s declining sericulture sector ...

Chief Minister Punjab, Sardar Usman Buzdar inaugurated the plantation campaign in Changa Manga Forest by planting a tree here today. The visit was kept secret by district administration after it was ...

CHANGA MANGA, Pakistan, July 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When authorities started planting millions of trees in eastern Pakistan's Changa Manga Forest five years ago, the idea was to bring back ...

A ‘timber mafia’, with the connivance of some officials of the forest department, has been pilfering wood worth Rs10 billion from the Changa Manga plantation over the last decade — clearing 75% of the ...

KASUR: On the 72nd Independence Day of Pakistan, the Forest department in collaboration with the district administration, students of many schools and colleges, the Bali Memorial Trust (BMT) and the ...

Various projects claim to alleviate poverty and strengthen the rural economy in Punjab, but the Non-Timber Forest Produce (NTFP) sector has been continuously neglected, despite its potential to ...

KASUR: A fire broke out at Changa Manga Forest near the Kot Radha Kishan Road on Saturday, spreading to a vast area of the forest. The fire engulfed about 200 acres land, leaving trees to ashes.

KASUR: A fire that started on Sunday in a section of Changa Manga forest is believed to have killed two hog deer, endangered animals according to the WWF, and burned scores of other animals. About ...