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 …
The easing of the supply position of firewood in the recent period is an extremely interesting and encouraging development. I am persuaded by Anil Agarwal's hypothesis on the positive supply response from the rural population to the fuelwood crisis as the main explanatory factor beyond the observed improvement, especially in …
Of late, the rural poor have realised that protection of the forest is basic to their survival and they themselves are protecting it. This would imply that creating awareness among the rural poor about the need to protect not merely forests but trees will go a long way in saving …
Costa Rica's environmental groups have got radical. Worried about the fate of the country's forests, they have banded together to demand a nationwide logging ban and an in-depth review of the rules governing the protection and management of forests.
Giving a boost to tree planting activity in the city, a voluntary organisation in Mandaveli has announced that it will make available saplings to the public as part of a campaign to increase green cover.The Environmental Society of Mandaveli said it had planted about 10,000 avenue tree saplings and distributed …
Collection of tendu leaf is continuing in Madhya Pradesh at 30,000 collection centres. So far, 45 lakh standard bags of tendy leaf has been collected through 1947 primary forest produce cooperative societies. Giving this information, the Minister for Forests. Dr Premsai Singh said that taking quick decision on matters pertaining …
The Karnataka Government has been urged to take immediate steps to ensure the implementation of the joint forest planning and management (JEPM) programme which had been announced through a Government order on April 12, 1993. The forest management programme was to have been a "participatory scheme" for the "protection and …
Forest products companies on Canada's west coast are facing intense pressure to abandon clear-cut logging following the announcement by MacMillan-Bloedel, Canada's largest forest products company, that it will end the practice on all its holdings in British Columbia.
A fact-finding team has found state authorities had unlawfully issued Nor Sor 3 Kor land right documents for more than 1,000 rai of mangrove forests in the southern coastal province of Phang-nga. The team visited Phuket and Phang-nga early this month following complaints that the land right papers had been …
The Punjab government is considering to set up a provincial forest authority as a quasi autonomous body with the objective to give a commercial orientation to its various activities in collaboration with the private sector.
The recent decision by the state forest department to give more emphasis to forestry programmes on the territory controlled by the department may not augur well for the social forestry project. The concept of social forestry--to do forest-related activites amidst human habitations with community participation--was mainly meant to increase the …
A public interest litigation was today filed by the Investors' Grievances Forum (IGF) at the Mumbai High Court against 3,599 plantation companies in India, for allegedly siphoning off investment funds.
The first rains of the season have fallen across parts of Mexico and Central America but have not quenched many wildfires that are destroying virgin forests and feeding a smoke cloud that is drifting across the southern United States.
In the Guatemalan rain forests, the wildfires have decimated populations of rare birds and plants and are threatening Mayan ruins. In Mexico, the fires have destroyed 600,000 acres and killed 55 people this year. As far north as Texas, thick smoke was making life misreable.
The Centre has directed the Karnataka Government to take over in 45 days the forest area leased to a five star hotel group at Nagarahole National Park in Kodagu district.It has also sought a report on the action taken against the officers behind the leasing of land within 60 days. …
The public interest litigation for banning all timber based activities in the seven north-eastern states has caused a loss of about Rs 1,480 crore to the national exchequer. The decaying timber lying in the forest for more than a year is also poisoning the soil which may escalate into an …
Jawans of the SSB and men of the Forest Department were desperately trying to control the fire that broke out in pine forests (Dharampur--Himachal Pradesh) on Saturday. The fire broke out in the forests at two places. One of these fires was within the complex of the SSB unit . …
The efforts of the Mumbai high court and environmentalists to curb deforestation in the ecologically sensitive Mahabaleshwar-panchgani plateau are meeting with little success. This is because the forest and revenue departments have not bothered to implement the measures recommedned by the Bombay Environmental Action Group (BEAG) to protect the tree …
The crisis ridden RS 9,000 crore Indian paper industry faces the threat of dumping due to lop-sided duty provisions in the Budget for 1998-99, the apex paper associations have said.
With the unofficial death toll due to heat wave crossing the 800-mark, the Bhubaneswar Environment Protection Council, a voluntary body, has proposed to revive the forest cover in the state capital.
Forest wealth worth Rs 3 crore including valuable trees has been submerged in the waters of the Kodasalli reservoir in Uttara Kannada district due to the negligence of forest department officials, former minister Prabhakar Rane charged here on Friday.
