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 …
The draft document to amend the timber distribution policy proposes to allot standing trees instead of converted timber to right holders. The draft amendments in the Himachal Pradesh Forest (Timber Distribution to the Right Holders) Rules approved by the Cabinet today provides for grant of 7 cubic metre of standing …
It is a mechanism for monitoring, tracking and labelling timber, wood and pulp products and non-timber forest products Government is considering introduction of forest certification as it will help in their sustainable management, a senior official said today. Forest certification is a mechanism for monitoring, tracking and labelling timber, wood …
Red Sander (RS) is an endangered timber tree species, endemic to southern India. It grows in fragmented forest landscape of southern Andhra Pradesh and in a few sporadic patches in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka states. The Andhra Pradesh Sandalwood and Red-Sanders Wood Transit Rules, 1969 laid down the following conditions …
Queensland National Parks Minister Steve Dickson has consistently ruled out logging in “pristine” national parks. But which parks are considered pristine is yet to be defined. The government has ordered a scientific review of 12.5 million hectares of the state's protected land, which will determine what and where Queensland's pristine …
Measures to prevent illegally harvested timber from entering the European Union come into force on Sunday. The EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) requires importers or sellers of timber and wood products to keep records of the sources of their supplies. Interpol estimates that illegal logging contributes up to 30% of timber …
The number of companies voluntarily disclosing their forest footprint has increased by almost 15% compared to last year, according to a report. The fourth annual Forest Footprint Disclosure (FFD) report, published today, revealed the increase in discloser numbers and the first reports from multi-nationals such as Colgate-Palmolive Co., Groupe Danone, …
SOME of the richest and most biodiverse forests in Indonesia will soon be opened up for commercial exploitation under a plan drafted by the new government of Aceh. The chairman of the Aceh parliament's spatial planning committee, Mr Anwar (who goes by only one name) has confirmed the plan would …
The MoEF committee chaired by A K Bansal on regulatory regime regarding felling and transit regulations for tree species grown on non forests/ private lands calls for simple uniform mechanisms to regulate the transit rules of forest produce within the state. The Ministry of Environment & Forests constituted a Committee …
Long-running native forest peace talks in Tasmania are again nearing a deal after collapsing last month. The two-year state and federal government sponsored peace process broke down in October, with environment groups saying they failed in a dispute over the amount of sawlogs to be cut from native forests. Since …
Officials in Democratic Republic of Congo are colluding with foreign logging firms to support illegal logging, harming local communities and risking the destruction of the world's second largest forest, a report by a campaign group says. Derelict ports in Congo's riverside capital Kinshasa are piled high with logs ready to …
The future of Tasmania's biggest surviving native timber processor is in doubt after the state's marathon forest peace talks collapsed on the weekend. Malaysian-owned veneer producer Ta Ann Tasmania will come under renewed attack in its export markets, re-igniting a campaign already highly divisive in the job-starved island state. Industry …
Twenty-one conservation groups sent a letter to the Obama administration today, asking it to withdraw from a recent agreement with the timber industry that, if approved by a federal court, would eliminate protection from 3,887,800 acres of critical habitat for the marbled murrelet until 2018. The federally threatened murrelet — …
Officials in Democratic Republic of Congo are colluding with foreign logging firms to support illegal logging, harming local communities and risking the destruction of the world's second largest forest, a report by a campaign group says. Derelict ports in Congo's riverside capital Kinshasa are piled high with logs ready to …
Liberia's forestry department has given a quarter of the nation's land to logging firms over the past two years in a flurry of shady deals now under investigation by the government, advocacy group Global Witness said on Tuesday. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, fending off accusations of graft and nepotism within …
One quarter of Liberian land has been sold to logging companies in just two years, threatening the country with widespread devastation, according to a report. A new spate of logging contracts in Liberia – the most heavily forested country in west Africa – means that 40% of its forests are …
A quarter of Liberia’s total landmass has been granted to logging companies in just two years, following an explosion in the use of secretive and often illegal logging permits, an investigation by Global Witness, Save My Future Foundation (SAMFU) and Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) shows. Unless this crisis is tackled …
PAPUA New Guinea's former Somare government introduced a controversial concession that allegedly accelerated deforestation of its tropical forests and gave away a potential $US23 billion in carbon-trading rights to foreign interests, according to a Greenpeace report. The political time-bomb that awaits PNG's new government, in a report by Greenpeace Australia …
For years the Solomon Islands has been the scene of vastly unsustainable logging practices, now experts are predicting the demise of the country's natural timber industry possibly as early as 2015. THE Australian bank that promotes itself as being among the world's greenest and most ethical is financing some of …
TASMANIA'S marathon forest peace talks reach their deadline today with Premier Lara Giddings optimistic an agreement will be reached. Talks between industry and green groups aimed at settling the 30-year conflict yielded interim agreements over the past two years. But they were unable to finalise which trees would be logged …
Odisha expects to get additional revenue of Rs 1000 crore from the proposed forest development tax (FDT). The FDT is set to be levied at the rate of 15 per cent on sale value of minerals raised on forest land. "The finalization of FDT will need an inter-departmental consultative process …
