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 …
Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has unerlined the need for growing trees and maintained that a plan for planting 24 crore saplings this year at various places in the state was being implemented.
The U.S. Forest Service approved a plan for oil and gas drilling in the Katalla region of the Chugach National Forest, a site on the Gulf of Alaska coast that was the location of the state's first commercial oil production. Cassandra Energy Corp., an Anchorage-based independent, has federal permission to …
Plowing through a reserve forest on the fringes of Mumbai is a road that breaks nearly every rule in the jungle book. What was once a narrow dirt track for devotees and trekkers to hike up to the Tungareshwar temple near Vasai is now a smooth motorable road making its …
Rumours of infiltration of Naxalites into Kollur in Kundapur district of Karnataka which is already in the news for encroachment, akramasakrama etc, are yet to be proved through investigation. People say that it may be a mere ploy to divert the attention of the people and police elsewhere at a …
Four years ago E.G. Sadanandan and fellow poachers made their money plundering the Periyar forest in Idukki district of Kerala. They still live by the forest, but with the backing of forest authorities, who have entrusted them with the protection of the Periyar tiger reserve. Having given up crime they …
The Travancore Devaswom Employees' Front has urged the Union Government to make amendments in the present forest law to exempt Sabarimala forest from the purview of Periyar Tiger Reserve, Kerala.
There has been unabated looting of forest wealth in Kundapur taluk of Karnataka in the recent past with the forest department however turning a blind eye to the same. Already, several sandalwood trees adjucent to state highways as well as acacia trees on either side of the National Highway No …
The Supreme Court has dismissed a contempt petition against former Himachal Pradesh Chief Secretary O.P. Yadav, former Forest Secretary C.P. Sujaya and five other senior officials of the state for alleged non-compliance of its order for demarking the land beloning to a joint family, which required felling of about 5,000 …
The Shivalik Development Board has come up with an ambitious plan to construct over 45 dams both sub surface and earthen at various places in the Shivalik foothills. These dams will help not only in water conservation, but also in soil conservation of the fragile Shivalik hills.
The Japan Bank for International Cooperation has agreed to fund a Rs 299 crore project on development of natural resources in the forest areas of Haryana.
With the Centre finally rejecting as "illegal" the state's decision to exclude certain categories of wasteland from the notified forest areas, the politically influential beneficiaries of the unlawful act of the previous Dhumal government are a worried lot.
The number of HIV cases is on the rise in Bhutan. A total of 13 people tested positive in 2002, and in all 38 are now infected with the virus in the Himalayan country. The first HIV positive case was diagnosed in 1993. Among those infected are seven housewives, three …
Kuttimathan's search for sustainable development started way back in 1987, when he started work as a guide for scientists from Kerala's Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute (tbgri) in Agasthyar Hills. He informed these scientists about the many secrets of the herb Trichopus zeylanicus, known in local parlance as aarogyapacha. …
The Udupi Taluk (Mangalore) Panchayat meeting has decided to entrust the investigation into the felling and removal of trees in the Ajjarkad TP quarters compound to the forest department. The meeting held on Thursday was attended by president Anita DOS's, vice-president Poornima, Tahasildar K M Saleem, Udupi Town Planning Authority …
Hundreds of timber and medicinal trees were being pilfered by miscreants from Amjhupli-Hizuli road under Sadar upazila (Bangladesh) of Meherpur district. The wood lifter Shahidul son of Ismali of village Amjhupi under Sadar that had been pilfering the tyre and medicinal trees from the road along with his associates since …
Environmentalists on Friday said that they plan to sue Indonesia's state-owned forestry company for alleged illegal logging above a hot spring resort that was flattened by a massive landslide.
The farmers of Ooty want to cut trees, but the Forest department would not permit them to. The issue pertains to the silver oak, the "shade tree" grown in the plantations. To the farmers of Nilgiris, the silver oak is their provident fund. They use it during difficult times, either …
The Wasteland Development Programme of the Tamil Nadu government has generated interest in a large number of corporate houses, which wanted to take land for agribusiness, the Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa said. Addressing the first meeting of the State Wasteland and Watersheds Development Authority, Ms Jayalalithaa said 224 corporate houses evicted …
Forest Department officials in Bandipur Wildlife Sanctuary, Chamarajnagar, have booked a case against a chef at a private resort near the sanctuary and its owner and recovered rosewood and teak worth over Rs 5,000. According to forest officials, the Forest Department staff, headed by Range Forest Officer Pooviah, raided the …
Worried over the continuing plunder of its sylvan wealth, the Orissa Government is likely to step up security in the major forest divisions of the State which house some of the most biodiversity-rich sanctuaries. Sources said the forests with beefed up security might include the Bhaitarkanika and the Similipal sanctuaries. …
