Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Kamal Tiwari Vs Union of India & Others dated 27/05/2025. The Principal Chief Conservator of Forest and Chief Wildlife Warden, Rajasthan stated that a high level meeting to review the progress on the demarcation of Nahargarh …
Allege move to give away 50,000 ha of forestland to corporates Environmental activists have taken a serious note of the draft notification issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forests on the report of the High Level Working Group on Western Ghats chaired by K. Kasturirangan. Any move to weaken …
Biodiversity Board Will Fine-Tune ESAs: CM Chief minister Oommen Chandy said on Tuesday that the state biodiversity board would begin the process of fine-tuning and implementation of ecologically-sensitive areas (ESAs) as per the guidelines issued in the draft notification by the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF). The ministry has, …
New Delhi: Around 150 trees have reportedly been felled in densely forested parts of Mangar, off Gurgaon-Faridabad highway, which is one of the few pristine spots left in the Aravalis in Haryana. Villages say the timber is being transported out in trucks. The area where the alleged felling took place …
The Institution of Engineers (India) has appointed an expert panel headed by M P Sukumaran Nair, former special secretary to the Chief Minister, to deliberate and review the Western Ghats Ecology Experts Panel Report. The terms of reference to the committee comprising of chairmen of the IEI state centres of …
Madhav Gadgil and K Kasturirangan are both scientists of great repute. But both are caught up in a controversy on how the Western Ghats - the vast biological treasure trove spread over the states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu - should be protected. First the ministry …
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) had recently decided to reduce the area of the ecologically sensitive zone (ESZ) in the Western Ghats. The Ministry issued a draft notification keeping the boundaries of ESZ in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu same as those proposed by the …
They Fall Under Ecological-Sensitive Zone-1 Classified By Gadgil Report Thiruvananthapuram: The state nominated three-member expert committee that reviewed the Kasturirnagan committee report has highlighted the need to protect the ecologically-fragile areas that were overlooked in the Kasturiranagan report. “The Kasturiranagan report had overlooked the grasslands in Vagamon and the rich …
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Tuesday disagreed with the demand made by the Kerala Congress(M) and others for cancellation of the order issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forests on November 13 last year for protection of the Western Ghats. Speaking to the media after a special meeting of …
The Kerala State Biodiversity Board will publish the details of plantations and human settlements in the 123 villages, excluded from Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESA) limits. These villages were in ESAs, according to the K Kasturirangan-led high-level working group’s report. Senior state officials said that around 450 square kilometers of plantation …
5 Other States May Ask For Similar Move The Centre’s late night decision on Tuesday to alter the boundary of Kerala’s ecologically sensitive area (ESA) in Western Ghats will see around 3,115 sq km area being taken out from the state’s protected zone. The office memorandum to this effect shows …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Surendra & Anr.Vs. State of Rajasthan & Ors. dated 06/03/2014 regarding mining taking place within 1000 mtrs. from the boundary of the Sariska Tiger Reserve as alleged by the Applicant. The Applicant specifically in his affidavit …
Thiruvananthapuram: Accepting Kerala’s demand, the ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) on Tuesday issued an office memorandum on the Kasturirangan-led High Level Working Group (HLWG) report to exempt plantations, agriculture land and human habitations from Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESAs). The OM said boundaries of the ESAs as identified by the …
Decision comes on the eve of poll schedule announcement Habitations, plantations and agricultural areas in the 123 villages falling within the Western Ghat eco-sensitive area will be taken off the protective zone as demanded by the Kerala government. The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests announced the decision on Tuesday, …
Thiruvananthapuram: The ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), on Monday submitted the draft notification on Kasturirangan-led High level Working Group committee (HLWG) report to the law department for final ratification of the report. Senior officials said the amended notification will not have any major changes other than include a specific …
Congress-Government Coordination Committee meeting today The Congress-Government Coordination Committee that will meet here on Tuesday is expected to work out a strategy to tackle the possible fallout of the K. Kasturirangan report on the conservation of Western Ghats that has identified 123 villages in the State as ecologically sensitive areas …
At a time when Goa and some other states are locked in legal battles in the Supreme Court to reduce the buffer zone around reserved forests and eco-sensitive areas from 10 to one kilometres, Environment and Forest Minister M Veerappa Moily has shown the way, by reducing it to just …
State’s demand for changes in Kasturirangan report on Western Ghats With only a few days left for the issuance of a notification for the Lok Sabha elections, all eyes are on the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest for its crucial amendments to some of the recommendations of the K. …
The state government has decided not to permit resumption of mining in the state until the findings of the public accounts committee and Shah Commission report are adequately dealt with. This was informed to the ministry of mines by the state government and was stated in the updated memorandum of …
M Chockalingam (Judicial Member) and R. Nagendran (Expert Member) constituting the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone Bench), issued a direction on February 14, 2014 halting all construction in the ecologically sensitive Amrut Mahal Kaval grassland ecosystems in Challakere Taluk, Chitradurga district, Karnataka. The direction was issued in response to complaints …
In a move that could have damaging political fallout for the UDF leadership, the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has categorically ruled out redrawing the borders of 123 villages in the state which had been declared ecologically sensitive areas (ESA) in the notification based on the Kasturirangan panel report. …
