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Ex-principal’s passion takes root, barren Madhya Pradesh hill turns plantation
Jamli ( Mhow): “Forest Man” Jadav Payeng toiled decades to single-handedly turn a once-barren Assam sandbar along the Brahmaputra into a lush 1,360-acre woodland. Over 2000km away, retired college principal SL Garg has pulled off in 10 years a feat with echoes of Payeng’s tenacity -- transforming a barren hillock in Madhya Pradesh’s Mhow into a 50,000-tree plantation. “Rock star” is a flashy moniker that might sit uneasily on the assuming 75-year-old Indore resident who changed what was once...
Thai girl, 13, admits killing sister, 7, in fight over toy and mobile phone
Thai girl, 13, admits killing sister, 7, in fight over toy and mobile phone The seven-year-old’s body was found in a rubber plantation about 600 metres from her home three days after an argument with her sister Police were called to a village in Sangkhla Buri district, Kanchanaburi province, on May 30 after seven-year-old Nong Agnoon went missing. Her body was found in a rubber plantation about 600 metres from her home three days later, according to ThaiPBS.
Filipino lawyers move to raise legacy of Pablo Manlapit, forgotten leader of Hawaii labor movement
Filipino lawyers move to raise legacy of Pablo Manlapit, forgotten leader of Hawaii labor movement Recent allegations against César Chavez have sparked a renewed focus on Filipino contributions to the U.S. farmworker movement - Bookmark Decades before Filipino American agricultural workers organized a historic strike in California, Pablo Manlapit was organizing Filipino laborers in Hawaii. Manlapit, who migrated to Honolulu in 1910 to work on sugar plantations, saw the exploitation of other...
The Amazon can be saved — with concerted action inside and outside Brazil
During the first term of president Luiz Inacio ‘Lula’ da Silva in 2003–11, the Brazilian administration slashed deforestation rates in the Amazon, all but eliminating the large-scale conversion of rainforest into cattle pasture and soya plantations. There’s a lesson here for other world leaders: with eyes in space and law enforcement on the ground, governments can help to tame seemingly insatiable market forces, even across one of the planet’s largest agricultural frontiers. Lula, who has...
Farmers question plan to build youth centre near Ord cotton properties
Farmers question decision to put Kununurra night space for youth near Ord cotton properties Sat 6 Jun 2026 at 10:31am In short: Plans to build a new youth night space on an abandoned sandalwood plantation in the Ord Valley have sparked concern from local farmers. Neighbouring farmers say the proposed location poses significant safety risks. The WA Justice Department says it has consulted the community and the rural site meets requirements.
Sequential multimodal sensory integration drives foraging decisions in leaf-cutting ants: Volatiles, contact cues and phytochemistry
Identifying the sensory cues that enable insects to find host plants, and understanding the neurobiology underlying their selection, provide solid foundations for developing state-of-the-art pest management strategies. Our work was aimed at identifying the main sensory cues attracting the leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex ambiguus to alternative host plants in commercial willow plantations in the Lower Delta of the Parana River (Argentina), with a focus on native plant species. Eight plant species...
Fatal crocodile attacks in Indonesia put spotlight on habitat destruction
The recent deaths of two men from crocodile attacks in North Sumatra have put a spotlight on Indonesia’s record as the country with the world’s highest number of such killings annually, raising questions over whether habitat destruction is pushing people and wildlife into increasingly dangerous contact. Environmental groups said the deaths reflected a wider pattern across the archipelago, where logging, plantations and other land-use changes had destabilised ecosystems. The first incident...
Indonesia Asks Police to Probe Hundreds of Firms on Palm Prices
A worker of PT Gunung Sejahtera Ibu Pertiwi, an unit of Astra Agro Lestari, harvests oil palm tree fruits at the company plantation in West Kotawaringin regency, Kalimantan, Indonesia, on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. At Astra Agro Lestari Tbk's unit in Central Kalimantan in Indonesia, the company works with seeds that can yield harvests by the age of 25 months after planting, much earlier that the average variety, and the company researches varieties that could keep trunks to 10 to 15 meters...
Indonesia Releases Details on Export Overhaul of Palm, Coal
Trees grow at a palm oil plantation in Luwu Timur Regency, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, on Monday, June 13, 2022. Palm oil closed near the highest in almost two months, supported by strong exports from Malaysia, concerns over further soybean crop losses in Argentina and worries over palm production in top grower Indonesia.
Malaysia Palm Reserves Jump Most in Five Months as Exports Slump
A truck carrying harvested palm oil tree fruits at the Johor Plantations Group Sindora Estate in Kulang, Johor, Malaysia. Photographer: Aparna Nori/Bloomberg