TEMPO.CO, Bengkulu - The Indonesian National Institute of Sciences (LIPI) has called on the public to plant teak trees. "One of the ways to overcome global warming is by planting teak trees. Planting ...

As natural forests decline and global demand for hardwood grows, farmers in northern Uganda are increasingly planting teak, a ...

The teak trees in the preservation plots are collected only after they fall on their own. A 114-year-old teak tree planted by the British at the Nilambur teak plantation here fetched a record price of ...

Native to India, teak is the go-to species for reforestation in Central America. But teak often underperforms in the nutrient poor soils that dominate tropical landscapes. To discover if the timber ...

Teak has the highest capacity for carbon sequestration among trees in India. This is the finding of a study conducted by the Gujarat Ecological Education and Research (GEER) to prepare a hierarchy of ...

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has put the brakes on a plan to cut down 2,000 teak trees in Chiang Mai for the construction of the new parliament building, following opposition from residents. The ...

CEBU, Philippines – A team from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) 7's and Ecosystem Research and Development Service (ERDS) identified the massive population of teak ...

Plants don’t make flowers just to make me happy, and they don’t make nectar just to feed bees, hummingbirds and other pollinators. Those nectar-filled flowers are there to lure species in where ...

The biggest teak tree in Asia has been discovered at Ottakallan area in Thundathil range of Malayattoor Forest Division. The gigantic tree reportedly beats the record of the teak tree at Kappayam, ...

Just when it was thought that the teak trees in Adilabad forests will be spared of pestilence this monsoon, the Abia pleura larvae seem to appear from nowhere to feed on the leaves of trees. The dead ...

While the forest department was already investigating the theft of a huge teak tree from the field of one Ramu Kumbhare of Tiroda, eight more teak trees were cut and stolen from the same field on ...