Reply affidavit on behalf of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of Gavhan Koliwada Matsyavyavsayik Sahakari Sanstha Maryadit Vs City & Industrial Development Corporation & Others dated 28/01/2025. City & Industrial Development Corporation submitted a proposal for CRZ clearance for the construction of coastal road from …
this is an amazing story. A story that shows that India can start eradicating poverty very fast and very cheaply. This is the story of the degradation and the regeneration of Jhabua - a poor tribal district of Madhya Pradesh bordering Gujarat. In 1985, when I first visited the district, …
he has abandoned all that is seen as modern and progressive in farming. He uses no chemicals, fertilisers, prepared compost or pesticides. Forget tractors, he does not plough the soil. He does no weeding. Notwithstanding, he procures a yield that is quality-wise the best, and quantitatively more than enough. He …
the ecological carnage that Jhabua has witnessed in the last five decades is sporadically mentioned in official records. Elder residents, however, remember how the dense forests once enveloped the district. "Hardly 60 years ago, my home was surrounded by dense forests," says 90-year-old Dholji of Samoi village. "The forests belonged …
the pebbles in the fields have become potatoes in the Hathipawa microshed of Jhabua district. In Phoolgaodi village, the villagers are celebrating the Year as the year of the Grass. In 40 ha of degraded government land, the watershed mission took up pasture development, where the production of more than …
When he was the irrigation minister in Madhya Pradesh, Digvijay Singh realised that big dams would only bring him unwanted unpopularity and fail to solve the problems of the largely tribal people of his state. "I realised that big dams were not going to help achieve sustainable growth," he said …
The marriage of Joint Forest Management (JFM) with watershed treatment under one mission was the touchstone for recovery of Jhabua. Even before the guidelines for watershed management were issued by the ministry of rural development, Government of India, in late 1995, the mission had commenced with the formation of 20 …
World Wide Fund for Nature (India) ( wwf-i ), has released a "Green Charter' urging all political parties to include issues pertaining to environment and development in their election manifesto for the forthcoming general elections. The charter makes several demands: achieving development with equity, alleviation of poverty by meeting the …
environmentalists have been expressing concern over the construction of Glen Canyon Dam for long. The dam has curbed the flow of the Colorado river above the Grand Canyon creating Lake Powell. The dam altered the Colorado river's natural pattern of yearly summer flooding and thus eliminated the usual seasonal variations …
illegal cultivation of poppy and coca for opium and cocaine has brought about some serious environmental changes in the mountains of San Jorge De Las Hermosas in central Columbia. The damage caused by the nefarious activities is not restricted to the social and political ethos. The climate of region has …
One of the victims of the climate changes that threaten the Earth would be the ethos of democracy, said William Ruckelhaus, formerly with the Environmental Protection Agency, to the Pulitzer prize winning journalist Ross Gelspan. Henry Kendall of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, and the recipient of the 1990 …
the Black Sea ecosystem is threatened by a project to build a pipeline to transport oil to the sea shores from Kazakhstan through southern Russia. Some of the largest oil companies of the world are involved in the Caspian Pipeline Consortium ( cpc ), a us $2-billion project that is …
The pilferage of teak trees in the reserve forests under Maulvibazar range and shed trees in various tea gardens in Bangladesh has caused ecological imbalance in the region. Though the district administration has filed more than 300 cases against nearly 500 offenders, the efforts to stop the felling of teak-trees …
On the role of environmental historians: Our understanding of the past has been radically changed over the last 20 years by environmental historians, who have been part of a more general movement promoting an ecocentric worldview. Most environmental his-torians are products of the '60s generation. I certainly am one among …
Although free from civil war and out of the international spotlight at present, El Salvador is facing a problem that threatens more permanent damage than the war - ecological devastation. The once lush nation is turning into a desert, throttled by a severe water shortage and rising incidences of respiratory …
POLITICAL history cannot be separated from cultural history, and cultural history is not a catalogue of events or a roster of events or a roster of personages, but an unfolding process of interaction between humans and nature. German scholar Leopald von Ranke, the father of modern positivist history, defined its …
Ancient Hindus considered the construction of wells a sacred duty. Inscriptions on ancient wells in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, exhort the people drawing water from them to pour an equal amount of water in a nearby pool. Texts like the Vishnu Purana clearly state that one who cares for water sources …
Humans are essentially a part of nature and it is impossible to disentangle human affairs from what is happening to forests, animals, insects and microorganisms Population pressure affects environment adversely, which, in turn, affect the population. Whenever a population increases beyond the carrying capacity of the local ecology, it dies …
• Geological studies in Kashmir have shown that the rise of the Pir Panjal range around four million years ago resulted in the formation of a vast lake, impounding drain- age in the Himalaya. Later, the Jhelum emerged as a result of the near Baramulla, draining out the lake years …
