Illegal felling of trees goes unabated
Lackadaisical appraoch and negligence of forest officials in Udaigarh, Madhya Pradesh, have given a decent burial to government tree plantation programme and their efforts in improving the forest cover. This could be easily gauged from the fact that while the illegal tree felling is going unabated, forest department is watching …
Amendments to forest law urged
The Youth Welfare Society for the Protection of Forests, Upper Dir, (Pakistan) has asked the provincial government to amend the NWFP Forest Ordinance, 2002, as it was promulgated without consulting the people of forest areas. In a press release issued here, office bearers of the society including Amir Muhammad, Sultan …
`Gas supply to help protect forests`
Natural gas supply to Mingora and Saidu Sharif (Pakistan) will help to protect rapidly vanishing forest resources in Swat valley, according to forest department officials. The locals get fuel-wood from the forests, which has resulted in rapid deforestation and put a negative impact on the ecology of these areas. Roughly, …
Timber mafia depriving Azad Kashmir of resources
On an autumn morning last year Kashmiris in Lamnian, 60km south of Muzafarrabad (Pakistan) , watched in horror as an ambulance skidded off the road and plunged into a field. Horror turned to bemusement when the rear doors of the crashed vehicle, driven by a Pakistani soldier, swung open to …
Transplant well or let trees be
Finding new homes for trees, which come in the way of development, Isn't as easy as it sounds. In fact, the Union environment ministry feels Delhi and other civic authorities have done such a ham-handed job that it has advised them to work trees into their development plans or transplant …
A unique first for Rajasthan
Rajasthan has become the first State in the country to have formulated extensive master plans for each district for utilisation of water. The master plans comprise as many as 48,000 big, medium and small projects for watershed development and 150 schemes for irrigation.
More dirt raked up over HLL`s clean up act in Kodai
More than two weeks after Hindustan Lever Limited started cleaning up the mercury waste left inside its closed thermometer factory premises at Kodaikanal, the controversy over the alleged damage wreaked by the MNC on the hill ecosystem and its people refuses to die down. While the MNC claims that the …
100% profit for tribals
The Madhya Pradesh state government has decided to distribute cent per cent profit from forests to tribals in order to enlist their greater participation in management and conservation of forests. Ownership right to tendu leaf and minor forest producers have already been conferred on pluckers and their cooperative societies, an …
Forest Protection Act of 1980 needs amendment, says Kuttappan
It would not be possible for the UDF Government to ensure cultivable land to all landless tribal families in the State without making necessary amendments in the Forest Protection Act of 1980, according to SC/ST Welfare Minister M A Kuttappan. Speaking after distributing land documents to as many as 42 …
Revoke licences given to Coke, Pepsi: Bardhan
CPI general secretary A.B. Bardhan demanded revocation of licences given to Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola to draw water for their bottling plants in different States. At a meet-the-press programme organised by the Thiruvananthapuram Press Club, Kochi, Bardhan said that the two companies had been drawing water from local sources in …
Fire at resreved forest in Shimoga
A forest fire has been noticed at the Shettihalli reserved forest area, two kilometres from Chinmane village on the Shimoga-Hosanagar road in Shimoga district of Karnataka.
Subansiri project awaits environment, forest clearance
The 2000 MW Subansiri Lower Hydro Electric Power Project is scheduled to be completed within seven years of procuring investment approval. The National Hydro Electric Power Corporation (NHPC) is currently looking for investment approval. The Project estimated to cost Rs 6,608.68 crore is to be located near North Lakhimpur on …
Pani panchayats formed
The Delhi state government is asking all villagers that are fed by DJB tankers to take charge of their water management.
No special court to impose DJB laws
In the absence of a special court to deal with the offences related to water supply, the much hyped water conservation plans of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) continue to suffer. DJB is the only civic agency in the city which does not have a court to deal with some …
Climate rewrites fate of trees
What the government had so far failed to do has been achieved by the climate. Thanks to an alternation in climate at the micro level, certain indigenous species of trees
Watershed mission to be set up
Government said that it is considering a proposal to set up a National Mission for Land and Watershed Development. "A proposal is under consideration to set up a national mission for land and watershed development in the department of land resources and to transfer watershed and soil conservation related activities …
Sandalwood seized
The district police seized 102 kg of sandalwood from a truck and arrested two persons at Kalapeepal village, about 80 km from Shajapur district in Madhya Pradesh.
