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 …
When Congress workers undertook a massive tree planting drive, the irony was not lost on the public. The party expects te 1 lakh saplings to be planted will compensate for the proposed felling of 10,000 trees. To commemorate the death anniversary of Sanjay Gandhi, also known as the Tree Day, …
The forestry projects of the Forest Department seem to have failed: this is apparent when one considers that only three per cent of the area in this Faridabad district is under tree cover. This is when the national policy on forestry envisages that at least 20 per cent of the …
Thirty legislators participated in the debate for demand of grants of forest and allied departments in the Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly. Most of the members stressed that the department must not be taken merely as a revenue-generating sector but priority should be accorded to save the forest and to …
The members from the ruling and oppositin benches in the Legislative Assembly shared equal concern over the rapid decline of the forest wealth in Jammu and Kashmir and demanded concrete measures to ensure the preservation of the forests.
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) spokesman and general secretary Surendra Furtado has called upon the decision-makers to learn the lessons of the summer of 2003 and chalk out an extensive re-greening programme by planting sapplings, which would be a secure of raising the ground water table. Stating that the delayed monsoon …
After destroying huge tracts of forests in Himachal Pradesh, tree pests are all set to create havoc in Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir, reveals a recent report of the Himalayan Forest Research Institute (hfri), Shimla. Many shisham trees of Punjab have already fallen prey to two fungi that are commonly …
kerala chief minister A K Antony has just had a good public relations week. He met Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in New Delhi, smiled at the cameras and announced that the Union government had given positive signals about releasing about 12,000 hectares of vested forestland in Wayanad district for …
A wedding ceremony is in progress in a village in the Kumaon hills. The priest is chanting shlokas and mantras while the groom plants a sapling and his bride waters it. The plant will be taken care of by the parents and friends of the bride once she leaves for …
A fallout of water scarcity in Rajasthan has been the difficulty young men have in finding brides. The women in this little village have to trudge 2 km down the hill to fetch water from three hand pumps and two wells.This daily routine, and the gruelling heat, has kep women …
A revolution has been taking place over the last 20 years in Saigata village, Brahmapuri taluka of Chandrapur district, Maharashtra. The people of the village have regenerated 280 hectares of forest around the village on what used to be degraded land. After independence, control over access to forest produce shifted …
In a move aimed at getting a good price for locally produced timber, the Tamil Nadu Government has lifted the ban on interstate transport of timber. The GO 88 dated May 13 effectively annuls the Tamil Nadu Timber Order, 1982 which had been clamped down on the transport of timber …
The River Krishna in Karnataka flows at distance of 8 kms from Athani. But that does not ensure that the taluk headquarter in Belgaum district and its over 100 surrounding villages have an adequate water supply during summer. With the river drying up for the second time during the present …
The continuous dry spell in Karnataka State for three years has depleted the ground water resources, which has forced the State Government to take drastic steps to ensure drinking water supply by recharging aquifers. In view of this situation the State Government has decided to construct over 100 barrages in …
A division bench of Kerala High Court granted four weeks' time to the State Government to furnish the list of people who were found to have encroached on forest land after January 1, 1977, and evicted thereupon and those who had been evicted in the last one year. The directions …
Unwept and unsung, these sentinels of the Garden City of Bangalore fall, one by one. As the city races towards development, the casualties are old and venerable trees that must make way for sleek flyovers, highways, road medians and apartment blocks. Drive out of city, take any road and what …
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation will begin the process of cutting down trees on Barakhamba Road and Panchkuian Road to make way for the construction of Barakhamba Road-Dwarka corridor. A total of 190 trees, along these roads will be mowed down. "While about 150 trees will have to be removed …
The battle between the Andhra Pradesh and the Karnataka Governments over the construction of a reservoir at Paragodu across Chitravati river took a serious turn with the Ministry of Water Resources approaching Union Law Ministry to find out whether the S M Krishna Government has violated the earlier agreements by …
The Bush administration says it will reinstate a Clinton-era rule that prohibits building roads in 58.5 million acres of protected national forests. But the administration wants to allow governors to seek exemptions from the rule, which environmental groups said would open the way for logging and drilling on millions of …
The heatwave sweeping the region has unleashed a rash of forest fires in the Himachal Pradesh hill state over the past fortnight. Thick columns of smoke rising from the numerous raging fires in the middle and lower hill ranges have completely obscured the skyline. A pall of smoke and dust …
