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Question: When you wipe your nose with a Kleenex, are you helping wipe out ancient forests? Answer: That depends entirely on who you ask.

The Minister of State for Environment & Forests Shri Namo Narain Meena said four new projects for sustainable forestry and its management with community participation would be implemented in the country soon.

Ten individuals and organisations control Sh2.87 billion worth of Karura Forest, a report shows. And were the Government to implement recommendations of the Ndung'u Commission - to recover monies obtained through illegal allocation of public land - a substantial amount of that would complete public projects.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry will hand over the community forest in the Kongo constituency to the local community as part of the efforts to empower the community in sustainable income-generating activities, improvement of their livelihood and forestry management rights.

Trees in a rare cloud forest in the desert regions of Oman water themselves with seasonal fog, according to Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists. The researchers studied this unusual watering process in a forest located in the Dhofar Mountains in the south of the Middle Eastern country.

The United States will forgive about 20 percent of the $122 million debt owed by Guatemala so the money can be used to protect threatened plants and wildlife, the government said Monday. The deal is the largest amount of debt forgiven under the 1998 Tropical Forest Conservation Act, which allows debt owed to the United States to be invested in protecting the environment.

Minnesota's timber industry experienced a second blow Friday when Ainsworth Lumber Co. said it's suspending operations at two oriented-strand-board (OSB) factories in Cook and Grand Rapids effective immediately. About 300 workers will be laid off.

Development of a 74-mile all-terrain vehicle and off-highway motorcycle trail in the Cloquet Valley State Forest has received support from the St. Louis County Board. The seven-member board asked that the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources select and approve a county land department proposal under which the DNR would develop the trail within St. Louis County.