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 …
Six thousand trees in Tehri-Garhwal will be cut and not 30,000 planned earlier as part of an arrangement to break a deadlock and allow an 800 MW transmission line from the Tehri dam to power-starved Uttar Pradesh.Directions to this effect were isued after a public hearing conducted by the Supreme …
The ginkgo is a companionable tree that likes to live in a place, its pollution notwithstanding. The ginkgo prefers to dwell somewhere where there is smoke in the air and some of man's waste products on the ground. In return it gives us beauty and shade in the streets of …
Only a few hours are left for the implementation of the Supreme Court order on forest encroachment and forest dwellers in Tatkol, Karnataka are getting more anxious by the minute. Meanwhile, forest dwellers who have been sitting in a dharna in front of the Moodagere taluk office for the past …
A vast area of evergreen forest has already been destroyed and more area is under the threat of destruction in the forest fire in the eighth block of Vilakku plantation in Goodrickal forest range in Ranni forest division.
do they train Indian foresters to mess up wildlife situations? It is difficult to ascribe the series of botch-ups involving leopards in the last month or so to misfortune. The most recent one was the highly publicised spectacle of a leopard killed by police and wildlife officials after it entered …
Victorian firefighters face a war of nerves today as they wait for a wind change that could whip up the fire front burning across the state's north-east. The weather bureau is again predicting warm temperatures for the alpine area, with strong to gale-force north-west winds overnight shifting to west to …
Money does grow on trees for Finnish paper mill worker Kari Ahonjoki. "The salary is very good. It is the best you can get around this town," said 28-year-old Ahonjoki, who began working in the timber industry 10 years ago. Paper and pulp workers earn almost a third more than …
Forests Minister Ch Ayyannapatrudu has said a sum of Rs 650 crore would be spent on afforestation in the Andhra Pradesh state during the 2003-2004 financial year. He was speaking at the second day's proceedings of the debate on the draft budget proposals at the Collectorate.
National parks and fire management agencies in Victoria and New South Wales fear that extreme weather conditions predicted for may result in a massive expansion of wildfires that have already burned over 750,000 hectares (2896 square miles) of alpine national parks and forests. The wildfires coalesced from approximately 60 small …
The United Nations Development Programme has arranged a funding line of euro 2.2m to promote tropical forests in Pakistan during the next five years. The funding facility extended by the European Commission would be utilized for the promotion of tropical forests through disbursements of small grants among the private sector …
The Delhi state environment department has decided to focus on growing trees that have both medicinal properties and can absorb pollution. The department has identified three plots of land in the outskirts of the city for this purpose. At least 20 different varieties of trees and shrubs will be planted …
Union Minister of State for Railways Bandaru Dattatreya promised to provide bigger platforms, elevators and other facilties at the Secunderabad railway station of Andhra Pradesh. Addressing a media conference he said afforestation would be taken up along the railway tracks in a big way. A survey would be conducted to …
Forest Minister Harvansh Singh has demanded deployment of Special Armed Force (SAF) to prevent encroachments and illegal felling of trees at four regions in the Madhya Pradesh state. The proposal had been moved to Home department which is reviewing the proposal. According to information, the Forest Minister has, in a …
Planting of avenue trees in Chennai has become a multi crore money spinner, with a private company claiming exclusive rights to plant trees and charge for advertisements on hoardings fashioned as tree guards, to aggregate Rs 140 crores a year. The concept of community based tree planting has been practically …
Where are the bodies? Ever since scientific concern over industrial chemicals in the environment escalated in the 1970s, alarms raised by public health advocates have been parried with a simple question by defenders of chemicals: If benzene, dioxins, vinyl chloride and the rest are so bad, why aren't bodies pilling …
The dense forest areas of Gaighat, particularly in Basaha, Tapeshwari and Beltar are being depleted in the absence of forest patrolling. Around a dozen of trees are felled daily and the timber is being smuggled out, according to sources.
Over 500 trees in a park in Nehru Place are on the verge of begin lost to a concrete jungle. For the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) plans to axe the trees and develop the park as as night bazzar-cum parking lot in the commercial centre. Sunita Narain of Centre for …
To restore the ecological status of the Aravalli range and preserve the gene pool in the desert state of Rajasthan, a Rs 442-crore forestry and bio-diversity project would kick off from April this year, primarily with Japanese assistance.
The cost of drinking water from the Melamchi Water Supply Project (MWSP), Nepal, after it is completed in 2008, will be significantly higher than other sources of water in the Valley, notably from groundwater wells. Therefore to keep up the demand for Melamchi water, the government has prepared a draft …
The night patrolling squad of the forest department have seized wooden logs worth Rs 25000 which were being unauthorisedly transported in a tempo at BC Road junction and have arrested the driver T Ismail.
