The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
The wood panelled office in Delhi's Paryavaran Bhawan is now a 'no-go' zone. Its reigning green queen, Jayanthi Natarajan , once a daily fixture on television shows as Congress spokeswoman, presides in imperious silence. Over the last 15 months, as minister for environment and forests, she has successfully stalled every …
This report exposes the environmental damage and human rights violations against tribal and other forest dwellers in the forests of Singrauli in Madhya Pradesh, that are under threat from the Indian government’s massive coal expansion programme. The report calls for a moratorium on coal mining, highlighting the violations of constitutional …
Draft Cabinet note on NIB not sent to me, he says Infrastructure projects that come up on forest land must comply with the Forest Rights Act (FRA), Union Tribal Affairs Minister Kishore Chandra Deo has said. No land in a Fifth Schedule area should be handed over to any industry …
A task force will be set up under the Rural Development Minister to take the process forward and the first meeting will be held on October 17 Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh today met Jan Satyagraha activists and agreed to their demands for framing a National Land Reforms Policy, thus …
If the alarming rate of elephant deaths in the State has shocked the Odisha Government, it must brace for more. As the Government advocates and celebrates the Forest Rights Act (FRA), it is this legislation which is going to fell more elephants in Odisha, for their staple fodder - bamboo …
Efforts of Jairam and Jyotiraditya to talk them out of it fail Dhanalakshmi, a 22-year-old from the Paliyar hill tribe of Tamil Nadu, is a long way from home. At 7 a.m. on Wednesday, she will join about 60,000 other landless poor, Adivasis and Dalits who have streamed into Gwalior …
This new United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) publication examines five biodiversity governance models that have helped conserve India's natural landscape. This publication examines five biodiversity governance models that have helped conserve India’s natural landscape. It presents salient features of these models and explores their effectiveness in conserving biodiversity, providing community …
MHOW: Landless tribals, who protested against their continued neglect by taking over about 300 acres of forest land in Junapani area near the famous Patalpani waterfall on Saturday night, left the area after assurance by officials on Monday morning. The tribals had felled large number of trees and cleared about …
The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has been accused of allocating over 1.86 lakh hectares of forest land for mining without the consent of gram sabhas as has been made mandatory under the Forest Rights Act. In all, 1,82,389 hectares of forest land was diverted by the environment ministry …
Tourism must be seen in the context of the rights of all stakeholders. More and reliable data is needed to understand whether tourism is harmful to tigers or that people living in the forests have caused the decline in the tigers' population. The more central issue of the implementation of …
Whereas the draft of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Amendment Rules, 2012 were published, as required by sub-section (1) of section 14 of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 (2 of 2007) under the notification …
Tripura has given land rights to more than one lakh tribal families under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006. An official of the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTADC) said the Government was making special efforts to improve lives of the …
Vedanta Resources plc is a UK-registered mining company that has come under growing national and international scrutiny owing to allegations of human rights abuses associated with its activities, especially in India where most of its operations are based. India’s regulatory bodies have intervened in many cases where the operations of …
Inaugurates VIT-The Hindu Education Plus Club The Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jayanthi Natarajan on Sunday called for stringent punishment to those who violate environmental laws. No serious imprisonment is currently provided for violators of environmental laws. This needs to be changed, she said. Inaugurating the VIT-The …
New Delhi: There has been an added push in the clearance of key infrastructure projects since the return of P Chidambaram in the finance minister’s saddle. Sources in the government said that the ministry of forest and environment (MoEF) has cleared about 80 files relating to road projects—which were awaiting …
Say It Is Not A ‘Grass’ But A ‘Tree’, Can’t Be Harvested. UPA’s initiative to give tribals control over the Rs 20,000 crore forest economy is again under threat, with the Union environment and forests ministry saying it will continue to treat bamboo as a tree and not “grass”. The …
New Delhi In a major step towards women empowerment, the Centre is planning a new legislation that will make the woman of the house the chief beneficiary of the compensation for land acquired for mining projects. According to officials in the mining ministry, the move will not only ensure the …
Touted as the panacea for Delhi's drinking water problem, this dam can only be constructed by breaking a host of forest and environmental laws and riding roughshod over the livelihoods of farmers in about 30 villages of Himachal Pradesh.
Positive change in 74 sq km The Forest Survey of India (FSI) has recorded a substantial increase in forest cover in Tamil Nadu. According to a recent FSI report, during 2011, a positive change was seen in 74 sq km of forest area. There has been a net increase of …
