<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Assam: PCCF MK Yadava accused of illegally clearing protected forest for Commando Battalion" appearing in the Northeast
The Rural Litigation and Entitlement Kendra (RLEK), petitioner in the Van Gujjars humans rights case before the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), has decided to file a caveat in the Supreme
Though cutting of trees around the Kathmandu Valley seemed to have decreased in the recent years, forests in other parts of Nepal are still disappearing, claims Prof. Masahiko Ohsawa of Chiba
Reports of damage caused by forest fires fanned by soaring temperatures and strong winds continued to pour in Kathmandu from different parts of the Nepal. The fires spread in the southern forest of
A total of 102 fires has destroyed 2,9530 acres of forests across Bhutan since January this year. With fires reported in 19 dzongkhags, it has cost the country an estimated Nu. 147.94
Chief Minister Digvijay Singh in his message on World Forestry Day on March 21 has called upon people to generate awareness among themselves towards forest reserves and its significance. He said
Two international environmental groups called for a moratorium on new logging in Papua New Guinea, claiming the national forestry management plan had failed. Greenpeace and the World Wide Fund for
report : Large-scale felling of trees and encroachments have depleted the forest cover in the Jubbal and Kotkhai areas by an alarming 25 per cent over the past 30 years. This has been revealed in a
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has held that tribal van Gujjars living in the proposed Rajaji National Park can not be coerced by forest authorities to leave their forest homes. The
Persons who are linked with nature are poor whereas person who are destroying nature are rich. Plantation of those plants should be promoted which are raw material for the forest based industries.
Developers of the University of Virginia's research park are saving and transplanting 3,000 trees, some, five-storey tall, rather than cutting them and burning the debris. The trees, 106 of which
