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 …
A 15-year old garden with fullgrown mango and a few flowering trees was razed to the ground at Hill Road, Bandra, Mumbai, allegedly to create an exit route for a proposed residential and commercial tower. While the contractor claimed that he had the permission of the municipal corporation to cut …
Timber smugglers in Orissa have discovered an innovative method to keep their businesses running without taking too many risks. They have started using a new class of agents to carry out their activities
The Karnataka State government has extended the stay order issued by the previous deputy commissioner regarding the transfer of notified forest land to the forest department, by six months. Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister D B Chandr-egowda rev-ealed this to presspersons at the zilla panchayat auditorium here today. He said …
The Supreme Court's order banning felling of tress and movement of forest resources is still in force, but "large-scale forest demolition" activities are still going on unabated at Sengelijan reserve forest along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border near Ramghat, a famous spot for picnic at least till the creation of Arunachal …
A conservation refuge off the coast of New Zealand is at risk of destruction after militant hunters boasted of releasing possums there. The threat to Kapiti island, 25 miles north of Wellington, was made last month in three letters to the conservation charity Forest and Bird, by an organisation calling …
Chief Minister S M Krishna said here today that an appeal would be filed before the Supreme Court seeking resurvey of the controversial Tatkol forest area. Speaking at a meeting of Tatkol forest land encroachers and affected people here, he said that the government would provide compensation to those affected …
The Andhra Pradesh Government is finally moving to check the sale of contaminated bottled water. The department has initiated prosecution against 328 vendors and manufacturers. Against 595 samples sent for analysis, as many as 366 were found adulterated. According to Health Minister K Sivaprasada Rao, 126 samples were drawan in …
It's not just the rape of the rocks any longer. Trees, some of them, of the rarest variety seems to be the latest victim of mean minded business houses. All along Jammu-Katra highway these trees are facing untimely deaths because of thousands of advertisements being nailed on them. Inspite of …
Amid all the talk about preserving the greens and planting trees, the block office at Salan in the Burdwan district of West Bengal has allegedly destroyed 750 saplings provided by the forest department. The saplings were meant to be distributed among residents and were provided to the block administration during …
Officials investigating the Columbia disaster said they were examining all possibilities for the breach and did not even rule out sabotage. The statement comes a day after revealing that a puncture in the shuttle's aluminium sheath may have caused the crash.
Lokayukta M.N.Venkatachala, in a surprise raid on the Hunsur DCF office on Saturday, stumbled on files which showed massive misappropriation of funds in the Eco-Development project taken up at the Nagargole Reserve Forests in Karnataka. In an early morning swoop, Venkatachala confiscated incriminating documents with regard to the Rs 36-crore …
A two day state executive of the Communist Party of India, which was held at the Makhdoom bhavan in Hyderabad from February 13, resolved to urge the Andhra Pradesh state government to constitute an expert committee to probe into the reasons for receding ground water table in the state despite …
It is cross border terrorism of a different kind, but an equally dangerous one. Scientists at the Arid Forest Research Institute in Jodhpur blame the insect, Derolus Discicollis, first traced to Sindh in Pakistan over a century ago, for destroying thousands of evergreen, life sustaining Khejri trees in six desert …
Makadshew is a small stretch of rocky coast on the Arabian sea and adjoining the Polem beach on the borders of Goa. The coast is isolated, remote and surrounded by lush green forest cover and is frequented by anglers from Loliem and its adjoining regions. It was found that this …
The green bench of Calcutta High Court came down heavily on the state government for its failure to enact a law to protect trees in the non forest areas since 1999. The green bench in 1999 had directed the state government to make a law to protect the trees, particularly …
Expressing displeasure at the delay in enacting legislation for protection of trees in the non-forest areas of West Bengal, the Division Bench of the Chief Justice MR AK Mathur and Mr Justice JK Biswas of Calcutta High Court observed that it was a matter of shame that the government had …
Recently, researcher P P Dhyani carried out a successful revival of part of a religious forest that existed at Badrinath. He undertook to rehabilitate the badrivan (sacred grove) around the holy shrine of Badrinath Dham by planting saplings of tree species that originally grew there. These include Bhojpatra (Betula utilis), …
The Andaman and Nicobar islands (a&n) are thought to be the emergent peaks of a submerged mountain range related to the Arakan Yoma range of mainland Burma. The islands include steep hills, and generally poor soil with little water holding capacity. Flat terrain is extremely limited and the larger islands …
