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 …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of P. Edwin Wilson Vs State of Tamil Nadu & Others dated 01/02/2019 regarding measures to protect the trees planted at public places and along the avenues in Chennai. The grievance in the application is that laying of concrete and cement …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Yogendra Mohan Sengupta Vs Union of India & Others dated 31/01/2019 regarding permission for expansion of Cancer Care Centre at Shimla by relaxing the directions of the judgment dated 16.11.2017 of the Tribunal prohibiting any new construction in ‘Core and …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Santi Rani Naskar Vs State of West Bengal & Others dated 28/01/2019 regarding illegal running of a saw mill, South 24 Parganas District, West Bengal. NGT directs an inspection to be carried out by a joint team comprising of the …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of In Re: T. N. Godavarman Thirumulpad Vs Union of India & Others dated 28/01/2019. As per the order passed by the Court on 05.05.2006, an adhoc arrangement was made before the enactment of National Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act, 2016. …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Samaj Parivartana Samudaya & Others Vs State of Karnataka & Others dated 24/01/2019. The issue in these applications is whether the leased areas of the lessees in question fall within the Revenue land or Forest land. The High Court …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Jeyenth Vijayaraghavanam Vs Union of India & Others dated 23/01/2019 regarding establishment of a Zoological Park in forest land in violation of the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 at Kamlapura in Bellary District of Karnataka. NGT directs the Ministry of Environment, …
Lack of water is playing a major role in limiting global forest growth as the climate warms, a recent study has suggested. According to the research published in the Journal of Science Advances, the effect is most evident in northern climates and at high altitudes where the primary limitation on …
Tanzanian government on Sunday announced to conduct a six-month operation to remove invaders from the forests and reserved areas across the east African nation. Suleiman Jafo, Tanzania's Minister of State in the President's Office (Regional Administration and Local Government), made the announcement soon after visiting one of the highly deforested …
NAGPUR: In a bid to boost 33 crore plantations under the ‘Green Maharashtra Mission’ in 2019, the state government has decided to implement the ‘Miyawaki Dense Forest Project’ which will be modelled as ‘Anandwan Project’. For designing the project, state government on January 15, formed a four-member study group under …
HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday said students are the future ambassadors of our environment. Appreciating their efforts in understanding the environment related issues, Javadekar said the students intelligence, knowledge and awareness will bring out a positive change in our society in protecting nature like forest, biodiversity, wildlife, etc. Realising …
Deb said that forest dwellers and people at large have faced problems to access forest resources due to soil erosion caused by massive degradation of forestlands. The new project has got provisions to built 1,447 check dams in hilly terrains of Tripura. Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb Wednesday launched …
Dehradun: A two-day pre-fire season workshop on forest fires conducted by Forest Survey of India (FSI) started here on Wednesday. The event is aimed at sensitising nodal officers across Uttarakhand regarding the monitoring of forest fires across the country. Harak Singh Rawat, minister of forest and environment, government of Uttarakhand, …
Plea seeks removal of encroachments in Southern Ridge The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday summoned the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and the Delhi government’s Revenue Secretary seeking reasons behind the delay in demarcation of forest land in the Southern Ridge. A Bench headed by NGT judicial member Justice …
MUMBAI: A unique and major citizens non-profit initiative called 'India Green & Wild' (IGW) will be launched later this week in over 250 schools in 50 Indian cities, including Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, in order to introduce and teach the young generation in schools about the importance of preserving our forests …
After six long years, Guyana has signed on to an agreement with the EU that should prove instrumental in securing a profitable position for the small Latin American country in the global legal logging industry. The agreement will eventually allow Guyana to issue logging licenses under the EU’s Forest Law …
Hyderabad: A shocking 95 per cent of forest fires in Telangana state are said to be man-made. Around 2,530 stretches of road passing through forests have become triggers for forest fires because of tourists cooking beside the road. This is why the Amrabad Tiger Reserve, located on the Srisailam highway, …
About 18,000 hectares of forest area was burnt last year. Hyderabad: Forest officials of Telangana state are concerned about the large number of fire risk zones in the state. Collecting data of fire accidents of the last five years from the Nasa website, the GIS cell of the Telangana State …
Order of the National in the matter of C. Janardana Reddy Vs Jio Reliance Company dated 09/01/2019 regarding illegal felling of trees in Kurnool District of Andhra Pradesh for laying underground Optic- Fibre line from Nannoor to Veldurthy Village by ‘JIO-Reliance’. A report submitted by the Divisional Forest Officer states …
Palghar will lose largest chunk of forests at 34.19 ha, followed by Dahanu at 29.05 hectares. Mumbai: More than 200 football fields equivalent forest land will be lost for Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train, since as many as 131.3 hectares of forest chunk is slated to be used for the ambitious project. …
NEW DELHI: Noting that forest cover in the northeastern states of the country decreased in 2017 compared to what it was in 2015, a parliamentary panel has recommended the environment ministry to take necessary steps to arrest the declining trend. The ministry, in its action taken report to the panel, …
