Careless Agencies Worsening Damage Instead Of Undoing It, Say Experts Relieving trees of the concrete noose can be very tricky and requires great skill. Once the roots of a tree are covered in concrete, it’s weakened severely and use of force can topple it. Little wonder that two large peepal …
Careless Agencies Worsening Damage Instead Of Undoing It, Say Experts Relieving trees of the concrete noose can be very tricky and requires great skill. Once the roots of a tree are covered in concrete, it’s weakened severely and use of force can topple it. Little wonder that two large peepal …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday pledged $50 million to strengthen institutional mechanism for biodiversity conservation in the country. He made the announcement while launching the high-level segment of the 11th Conference of Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Hyderabad. Stressing on the role played by …
New Delhi: About five times a year, the world breaks into celebrations over planet earth. Irrespective of what is done in the remaining 360 days, each time world water day, earth day, environment day or the earth hour are observed, people are at their best ‘green’ behaviour, at least some …
The government does. It says area under forests has been increasing for the last 13 years. M Rajshekhar finds this is the outcome of statistical jugglery and the use of flawed definitions by India’s forest bureaucracy. The bald truth is India’s forests are in serious decline, both in numbers and …
Delhi Metro's third phase will put an end to the travelling woes of lakhs of commuters, but the construction work for it will, by its own admission, kill around 11,500 trees on a 108-km stretch in the Capital. However, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) officials are of the opinion that …
Officials counter charge of creating monocultures, depleting groundwater with wrong choice of trees,/i> Close to a million trees are planted every year in Delhi as part of the city’s greening programme but environmentalists say there is little ecological basis behind the selection of tree species to be planted. Worse, they …
In the season of scandals and wrongdoing, all other frauds have been overshadowed by the gargantuan 2G swindle because it has been accompanied by murky disclosures of how businessmen and politicians subverted every pillar of our democracy. Naturally, everything else pales in comparison. But there are more scary skeletons in …
The struggle to protect the rapidly vanishing tiger is getting murkier by the day. Up to 100,000 families are slated for displacement, ostensibly to secure India’s tiger habitats. Unfortunately, most of the relocation taking place violates the law and may end up creating more conflicts that cause the tiger’s decline.
The struggle to protect the rapidly vanishing tiger is getting murkier by the day. Up to 100,000 families are slated for displacement, ostensibly to secure India’s tiger habitats. Unfortunately, most of the relocation taking place violates the law and may end up creating more conflicts that cause the tiger’s decline. …
The system of monitoring the environmental impact of projects has failed and so there is little hope for the self-certification process. The Ministry of Environment and Forests clears 80-100 projects every month. According to the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) notification, 2006, activities such as mining, power generation, construction of roads …
New Delhi: As tiling and concretising of the immediate area around tree roots goes unchecked in the city, the environment department has written to heads of various civic agencies, asking them to take action against this practice. In 2000, the UD ministry had issued several guidelines for greening of urban …
A self-certification benefit for polluting industries and a three-year exemption from certain procedural norms for those seeking environmental clearance at the state level are among the sweeping changes proposed by the Manmohan Singh government in what is seen as an election-eve gift to industry. The proposed changes, notified by the …
Kalpavriksh Environment Action Group in Delhi and international non-profit grain recently came up with a brochure, which highlights redressal mechanisms as well as biases and lacunae in the Biological Diversity Act, 2002. The brochure, Offences, Disputes and Remedies under India
THE lush green hill tracts of the Eastern Ghats may soon be blighted by smoke belched out by two bauxite units, each worth Rs 4,000 crore. While one refinery unit with a capacity of 1.4 million tonnes per annum is being set up by JSW Alumina Limited at Boddavara village …
Thanks to consumerism and globalisation, today we have secluded ourselves from the mother nature. We consume our leisure while hanging out in multiplexes and theatre. Now, picnic and trekking are not often planned out by peer groups or families on holidays,' says Tasneem Balasinorwala, a member of Pune Tree and …
Since 1980, different pieces of legislation have been enacted for environmental conservation. These include the Forest (Conservation) Act (FCA), 1980, the Environmental Protection Act (EPA), 1986 and the Biological Diversity Act (BDA), 2002. These have the potential to strengthen the conservation agenda. But they are at best being used to
After much active negotiation with countries of the North and South, India signed the Convention for Biological Diversity in 1992. The Convention required every member country to formulate its own National Biodiversity Strategy, and Action Plan. In 1999, the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) nominated Kalpavriksh, an NGO …
