Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of In Re: Zudpi Jungle Lands. A batch of applications involved a peculiar issue concerning the situation prevailing in the six districts of eastern Vidarbha region namely Nagpur, Wardha, Bhandara, Gondia, Chandrapur and Gadchiroli. The issue pertains to the status of the …
Nature lovers in India's youngest wildlife sanctuary, Chakrashila, have embarked on a unique educational project to help the people in the region preserve and protect the environment as also their traditional way of life. "Tapoban" seeks to inspire a sense of ownership and pride in forest resources which villagers living …
Projects worth Rs 1,000 crore for the development of the forest cover in Jammu and Kashmir awaiting central assistance may face rough weather due to the possible sanctions in the aftermath of the nuclear tests conducted by India last month.
South-East Asia is to set up a special fund to finance the fight against devastating forest fires in Indonesia of the kind that choked the region with smog last year, Singapore's environment minister said on Friday.
Bangladesh's total forest area is about 17 per cent of which only eight per cent is covered with trees. This was stated by Forest and Environment Minister Begum Sajeda Chowdhury.
The World bank-funded forestry scheme is creating more problems for villagers in Betul district of Madhya Pradesh. Shramik Adivasi Sangathan convener Anurag Modi said authorities were digging trenches around forests thereby entirely cutting off villages within them.He said 500 families were affected due to the implementation of the scheme without …
Greenpeace activists called upon the shareholders of Clariant to demand the company ends their business with Canadian companies destroying the rainforest. The German subsidiary of multinational Clariant is partly owned by Hoechst AG and currently buys up to 8,000 tonnes of pulp from Canada's second largest rainforest ravager, Western Forest …
MacMillan Bloedel announced that over the next five years it would replace clear cutting with "variable retention" logging, in which anywhere from 30 per cent to 70 per cent of the timber is left standing.
There was widespread deforestation in the proposed Jana Kalyan Community forest area constituted in Pathariya and Baliya districts in the name of cutting timber for ploughs.
More than 1,000 rai of land in Ranong's Laem Son national park have fallen into private hands following the granting of ownership documents by local land officials working in collusion with claimants who supplied them with false evidence, according to forestry officials. Officials of the Forest Protection Division 1 (Central …
Firefighters battled wildfires across Florida and into Georgia under sweltering weather Thursday and officials said they expected a hectic 24 hours as flames spread over the parched land. So far more than 50,000 acres in Florida have been burned up, officials said.
After decades of under-development, forestry is emerging as the keystone of Latvia's economy. The decision to seek foreign bids to build a $960m pulp mill shows the state is waking up to the resource its forests represent.
The Tamil Nadu Afforestation Project has caused a remarkable change in the lives of the villages of Thudukkanahalli in Krishnagiri taluk.According to an official press release, the project which is under execution since 1997 in the village and involves planting of trees in the adjacent reserve forests, has elicited excellent …
The European Commission has again postponed a decision whether to ban carcinogen chemicals contained in children's toys, as scientists continue to study the potential health implications.
Mitsubishi Motors Corp. will begin installing new models of its gasoline direct-injection engines in cars for the Japanese, U.S. and European markets starting this autumn. To meet the stricter emissions standards, the latest version of the fuel-efficient engine has been matched with new catalytic convertors that reduce emissions of nitrogen …
Thousands of sesam trees, which provide timber worth billions of rupees, have dried up in the plains of North Bihar due to an unknown disease. Many thousand more are threatened with the mysterious disease but the state government is yet to take any action to halt the damage to the …
A total of Rs 101 crores have been spent on the forestry and pasture development programme being implemented in the command area of Indira Gandhi Canal Project with the financial assistance of the Japan-based Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund (OECD). This expenditure was incurred by the end of March this year, …
A team of Canadian researchers put a human gene in fruit flies and managed to increase the pests life-span by 40%. All this, researchers, say suggests "a possible strategy" for reducing the ravages of aging in other species-including humans.
The mysterious pathogen that has been killing coral near the coast of Florida, USA, for the last three years has been finally identified. Scientists Laurie Richardson and his team at the Florida International University in Miami, USA, have said that a bacterium called Sphingomonas is single-handedly responsible for the coral …
About 150 million tonnes of forestry waste and 350 million tonnes of agricultural residue are produced in India every year. However, a major portion of the wastes is not utilised. Scientists in India have devised pyrolysis method to convert biomass into charcoal briquettes that could benefit users and generate employment …
a group discussion was conducted with the women of Piparala, a village without out any surface irrigation facilities and very limited groundwater. What emerged from the discussion is that the main sources of cooking fuel are crop residue (mainly cotton as other crops like jowar and bajra stalks are used …
