Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
Brazil and Indonesia paid over $40bn in subsidies to industries that drive rainforest destruction between 2009 and 2012 - compared to $346m in conservation aid they received to protect forests, according to new research Brazil and Indonesia spent over 100 times more in subsidies to industries that cause deforestation than …
There is an increasing focus on the role that public and private resources can play in supporting activities that reduce forest loss as part of wider efforts to address climate change, and ensure sustainable development. This report highlights the role that subsidies play in shaping the investment climate in a …
BEIJING - Commercial logging will be forbidden in key state forests in Northeast China on April 1, said China's forestry watchdog Thursday. The State Forestry Administration (SFA) said commercial logging would be banned in state forests in Inner Mongolia and Jilin to assist in the recovery of China's wood resources. …
Logging in the state forests has cost NSW more than $43 million over the past three years - money that would be better spent promoting tourism in the regions, according to the Greens. Each hectare felled costs taxpayers $495, with the losses in 2013-14 alone reaching almost $12 million, the …
COMMUNITIES in Kilwa District have earned 200,000 US dollars (361.5m/-) from timber exports to Europe in the past ten years. In a statement, Mpingo Conservation and Development Initiative (MCDI) said nine communities set aside 100,000 hectares of village natural forests with sustainable harvesting for exports. "MCDI also supported seven communities …
In the wake of the signing of a forest conservation agreement between the Government of Liberia and the European Union through the Government of Norway, where the country stands to benefit US$150 million in exchange for protecting its forest, the Managing Director of the Forestry Development Authority says the agreement …
The Liberia Timber Union Association or LTA has strongly rejected a US$150m forest deal recently signed between Liberia and Norway, demanding a public debate on the letter of intent. The LTA's President Rudolph Merab, told reporters at the Mamba Point Hotel in Monrovia Monday that they will not accept a …
Tesco, M&S;, Homebase and Sky are among a coalition of big businesses that have signed up to a new WWF-UK commitment to use 100% sustainable timber by 2020. The firms, also including Morrisons, Kingfisher and Boots, have pledged to join the national campaign which will attempt to close legal loopholes …
Forestry: If the country harvested timber like it did in the last five years, the country would go barren, forestry officials warn. In the past five years, almost 40m cubic feet (cft) of timber, equivalent to about 80,000 truckloads, have been used in the country for various construction works. Data …
The Tasmanian Liberal government has succeeded in unwinding key parts of the peace deal to end the state's forest wars. The legislation gives the timber industry greater access to forests, makes them harder to set aside from logging, and cuts out environmentalist consultation. Around 400,000 hectares of high conservation value …
The Tasmanian government is on course to pass legislation that would tear up the state’s forestry peace deal, with environmentalists claiming the move will open up 1.5m hectares of largely pristine forest to logging. The state government’s forestry bill has already passed the lower house, which it controls, and is …
A new policy by the Himachal Pradesh Government to allot trees, instead of timber or wood, at subsidised rates for constructing or repairing houses has streamlined the process in the State, an official said. Under the amended rules, `500 per cubic metre standing volume is being charged for deodar and …
The accelerated and unsustainable exploitation of the Earth's primary natural resources has become a major threat to apes in Africa and Asia, a major United Nations environment conference heard Wednesday. Speaking on the sidelines of the UN environment assembly, conservationists said infrastructure development and extraction of natural resources - including …
Environmentalists scored a victory in their long battle to prevent timber companies from undertaking logging in some of Australia's most pristine forests. The United Nations turned down an appeal by Tony Abbott's conservative government to declassify some 74,000 hectares of protected Tasmanian forestland—an area bigger than Chicago—saying doing so could …
Meghalaya frames guidelines 18 years after Supreme Court ban on timber felling SHILLONG: 18 years after the ban on tree felling by the Supreme Court, the Meghalaya Forest department has framed a working scheme for judicious harvesting of timber and subsequent tree plantations. The working scheme for the non-Government forests …
Japan, the world’s fourth-largest buyer of timber products, needs to introduce laws and stricter oversight to stamp out imports of illegally logged wood, said the Environmental Investigation Agency, a lobbyist group. The country’s laws do not require private buyers of foreign timber to ensure it was legally logged nor do …
Forestry authorities in China have stopped commercial logging in the nation's largest forest area, marking an end to more than a half-century of intensive deforestation that removed an estimated 600 million cubic meters (21 billion cubic feet) of timber. The logging shutdown was enacted in large part to protect soil …
It is an inconvenient truth that the poorest people in India live in the country's richest forests. The management of this green wealth has not brought any benefits to the locals Forests have been blacked out in the economic assessment of the country. The Economic Survey does not even list …
Plan to roll back hard-won protection branded 'fundamentally irresponsible' by Wilderness Society The federal government has decided to push ahead with a plan to remove world heritage listing from a swath of Tasmanian forest, potentially reopening bitter divisions over the state’s timber industry. Richard Colbeck, parliamentary secretary for agriculture, said …
To encourage agro-forestry and industrial units based on wood, six modern timber markets will be set up in Punjab, stated Forest and Wildlife and Labour Minister Chunni Lal Bhagat, who was in the town today in connection with the taking over of Vijay Sampla as the chairman of the Punjab …
