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 …
Indian Forest Service probations, currently undergoing training at the Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy at Dehradune, will get a unique opportunity to interact with retired forest officials from all parts of the country at a function organised by the IGNFA to mark 50 years of India's Independence.
Senior officers of the Forest Department have said that private parties should step forward in the field of plantation for improving the environment. The Forest officers expressed this view while inspecting the Budhni Project of the ENBEE Plantation . The inspeciton team was led by the Principal Secretary, Forest Department, …
Greenpeace will appeal to UK companies and consumers to boycott timber from Canada's province of British Columbia. The environmentalist organisation contends that the sustained felling of old forests in the province's Central Coast area threatens a valuable rainforest and the well being of grizzly bears.
Slovakia and Hungary have taken a first step towards resolving a long standing dispute over a $600m-$1bn dam which would help boost the two countries power supplies. Late last week delegations from the two countries signed a framework agreement to locate the dam at Nagymaros, in Hungary.
The Kerala Forest Research Institute(KFRI) here is planning to register with the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR) 15 "very good" clones of eucalyptus it has developed through a five-year research project. The new clones are expected to solve a significant paradox in the plantation sector in the State …
The Unicef-WWF consultation on "Fresh water for India's Children and Nature" was held at New Delhi in January to discuss a synthesis report of five local level studies and initiate a dialogue for action with the participation of experts and practitioners from government organisations, universities, and multilateral aid agencies. Unicef's …
The Assam government has proposed to reopen the 44 plywood factories of the state, lying closed since December 1996 on a phased manner by re-locating them under specific zones, state industries minister Gunin Hazarika said here on Friday.
New fires have broken out in a national park in East Kalimantan, as rainmaking operations began in the province that has seen forest and bush fires raging for months, a witness and officials said on Saturday.
Thick smoke from dozens of raging forest fires blanketed this city in eastern Borneo island on Saturday, threatening animals and humans alike. Wildlife officers said they had found the charred remains of dozens of rare animals in a blackened nearby national park.
The forests are ablaze again in East Kalimantan, part of Indonesian Borneo. As a result, the poisonous smog which cloaked a large area of South East Asia last year may return sooner than had been expected, even before efforts to mount a regional defence against the disaster get under way.
To kill a caterpillar a virus was given a scorpion's gene. It was to take on caterpillars that fed on cabbage. The virus escaped beyond the trial area and acquired a taste for other delicacies and happily slaughtered many other non-target species, many on the protected list. To make matters …
two scientists in the us have questioned the credibility of Dolly. They say that the experiment must be repeated before its results are accepted. No other scientist has reported cloning a mammal form an adult cell. Citing reasons for their skepticism, Norton Zinder of Rockefeller University, New York, usa and …
Car salespersons now have a new hi-tech gizmo to help them move used cars. Patented by the Bland Partnership of Bermuda, the system works on a hand-held personal computer (PC). The PC is programmed with a script, which the sales assistants follow when conversing with a customer. They then enter …
Luis Giusti, president of Petroleos de Venezuela (pdvsa), the state oil company, announ-ced that the company will produce an average of 3.6 million (m) barrels per day (b/d) - 42 per cent above its Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (opec) quota of 2.538m b/d. pdvsa expects to export an average …
On his achievements as environment minister: I did not care for the fragility of the political system. Even in a caretaker government, I am doing what I can. I have constituted a committee to advise the ministry on how minerals can be utilised in this country. At present, individual companies …
It may not be original, but at least they are trying. The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) is all set to make Delhi green, that too 'dark green.' An area of 16,000 acres was made green this year alone by planting 180 lakh trees and shrubs.
Political and military leaders from Cambodia and Vietnam are involved in large-scale illegal logging that threatens to destroy Cambodia's forests, a British environmental group said on Thursday. Cambodian government officials declined comment until they reviewed the report, although Agriculture Minister Tao Seng Huor said Cambodia recently asked neighbours Vietnam, Laos …
With forest fires in Indonesia threatening to cast another pall of smoke borne pollution over Southeast Asia, officials in the region appealed for international aid to help prevent a recurrence of the 1997 crisis that is estimated to have cost more than $1.3 billion in damage to health, disrupted industry …
The Planning Commission is "alarmed" that over 65,000 villages in the country do not have access to safe public source of drinking water, and has called upon the Ministry of Rural Areas & Employment to ensure better coverage. In its latest evaluation of rural water supply schemes, it has pointed …
The Indian Paper Makers Association (IPMA) has on Wednesday expressed serious concern over the dwindling forest cover in the country and offered to work jointly with the Government to reforest rapidly degrading forestlands.
