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 environment and forests ministry yesterday revised its directive on the ban on felling of borer disease-affected sal trees in Madhya Pradesh to allow the hacking of only dead trees. The ministry, however, said that the debris should be removed from the site before the onset of monsoon.
Huge forest fires are again raging on Kalimantan, the Indonesian territory of Borneo, disrupting air traffic and threatening a sanctuary for endangered animals.
The Neem Foundation and other non-governmental organisaitons plan to plant 80 million neem trees in India over the coming seven years. Rediscovered by modern science, neem is being looked upon as an importnt factor in greening the environment and solving a range of global ecoproblems.
Paper manufacturing units in western Uttar Pradesh have urged the Central government for a prompt decision on pulp wood plantations as it takes about eight to ten years before a tree cam be harvested for making pulp. For sustained development of the paper and pulp industry, manufacturers have suggested that …
The Cambodian authorities have granted a logging concession for some 10,000 rai of forest in Koh Kong province to Thai and Cambodian businessmen in exchange for construction of a road linking Koh Kong with Pailin.
NGOs interested in the development of non-forest wasteland and watershed development no longer need to approach the Department of Wasteland Development in the Ministry of Rural Areas & Employment. According to official sources, the recently revised guidelines stipulate that they will instead have to route their proposals through the Council …
Smuggling in Agarwood in Rajapara Beat under Loharghat Range in the Kamrup West Forest Division has caused strong concern not only to the Forest Department but also to the conscious people of South Kamrup.
A massive forestation programme in 900 acres of land is going on in Chittagong Hill Tracts Region at a cost of Tk 280 crore. The Department of Forest is implementing the programme with the participation of the local people.
Initiatives are underway to create "forest gardens" in 52 districts of Bangladesh, including Bandarban, under a donor aided project. These gardens are meant to stop land erosion, rehabilitate Jhumia families and generate incomes for the poor through participatory forestry.
While afforestation schemes drain out crores of public money every year without much success, a tribal village has shown that the key to creating a forest lies in mere protection of the area.
Sinar Mas Pulp & Paper (India) is in talks with the Gujarat government for setting up a Rs 2,000 crore state-of-the-art paper project. The company was planning to go in for an expansion of its Pune facility but decided against this.
Farmers of Sanand, Dholka and Daskroi talukas of Ahmedabad district are locked in a battle with their neighbours from Kheda district over use of Sabarmati river water for irrigation. While farmers leader of Sanand Amarsingh Solanki claims that it is their right to use water, as they have been doing …
Greenpeace protested against Chilean plans to allow a major logging project in the rain forest of the far southern Tierra Del Fuego region. Members of the group demonstrated in the capital in front of the National Environment Commission, which recently approved a proposal for the logging firm Trillium to cut …
Neem, a source of pesticides, is itself under threat from a new fungus. The agricultural scientists in Mysore have identified a new fungal species that is destroying Neem (Azadirachta indica) trees in recent years in Karnataka.
Benchmark for success The Songhai Centre in the Republic of Benin is a model for food self-sufficiency and sustainable development photographs: songhai centre Citizens of Benin associate the Songhai Centre with abundance of food supply in a continent plagued by never-ending famine, the Songhai Centre in Porto-Novo, a city in …
scottish researchers have developed a heat-sensitive bra with an electronic memory chip that can successfully detect premenopausal breast cancer. The Chronobra was developed by Hugh W. Simpson, pathologist at the Royal Infirmary at Glasgow, who claims that it can be an alternative to Mammography. Simpson speculates that the breast temperature …
inter-american Development Bank recently commissioned 10 papers to investigate the key policy issues affecting Latin American forests. One paper on policies that affect forests in Latin America, by Jan Laarman, uses regional examples covering both traditional forestry policies as well as those that affect the forests: macro-economic, trade, cultural and …
Environment and forest Ministry have issued notification to constitute a special Task Force Body for the estimation of loss incurred to the forest wealth of state as a cause of forest disease identified as Sal Borer epidemy. The team members besides estimating the loss imcurred to the forest wealth will …
The Brazillian congress voted to give the federal environmental agency legal authority to enforce environmental protection laws, two days after Government figures showed destruction of the Amazon rain forest reached record levels in the mid 1990's.
In a move to empower American architects to help protect one of the most important ancient forests remaining in North America while decreasing toxic chemicals in our environment, Greenpeace reached out to thousands of design professionals urging them to eliminate the use of old growth temperate rainforest and PVC building …
