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 …
About 10 million saplings will be distributed across the state over the next seven days as part of the state government's observance of forest week from today. The inauguration function of the 19th State forest Week was held at Bolpur.
At a time when the eviction drive at the reserved forest areas in Assam has become a controversial issue, satellite imageries have clearly shown that the forest cover in the state, especially in the north bank of the Brahmaputra, is fast vanishing due to organized and mass encroachment. The Assam …
When the Republic of India began its democratic journey in the 1950s, people were given incentives to cut and clear forests to bring more land under cultivation and help alleviate poverty. This scenario has turned full circle today, with every inch of forest cover being protected as sacred. This journey …
With the participation of local people and technical help from the authorities, the once treeless villages along the international border in Jammu district have been converted into a Green Zone. Till some years back, due to annual floods, the areas near the border along the Tawi river in Jammu district …
Sixty-eight neem and kikar trees in Mehrauli have got a new lease of life after the Forest Department withdrew its orders for felling them on Thursday. The Department had earlier permitted a Realtor to clear the land and sell off the land as residential plots. The land is in the …
The Madhya Pradesh Government has said it would endeavor to improve degraded forests spread over 89,000 hectare area this year. In addition, productivity in bamboo forests and fodder production would be improved and with five major rivers originating from the State, soil and water conservation works would be taken up …
The forest area in the country has increased by 1,000 square kilometres in the last one decade, ending 2000, according to the annual World Bank Data Book of 2002 released in Dhaka on Thursday.
Degraded forests in 89 thousand hectare would be improved this year in Madhya Pradesh. In addition productivity in bamboo forests, fodder production would be improved and soil and water conservation works would be taken up in the catchments of major river systems.
Militant outfit National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB), today said that if the Assam government is concerned about preservation of forests, it should first clear the tribal belts and blocks illegally occupied by unauthorised people for settlement of the indigenous people now living in forest land.
If promise to provide water was former Gujarat chief minister Keshubhai Patel's USP, Narendra Modi too is not keen on leaving such an issue on the backburner, especially with state elections not very far away. A 45-minute meeting between former M S University vice chancellor Anil Kane with Modi in …
After the illegal felling of deodar trees in Tundah forest in Bharmour subdivision of Chamba district, another scandal of illegal felling of deodar trees in the reserve forest of Greema panchayat in Bharmour forest range has come to light. Stating this to reporters, a former Congress legislator, Mr Thakur Singh …
In a bid to green Haryana, the state government has decided to launch the ambitious Choudhary Devi Lal Community Forestry Scheme, the Financial Commissioner and Secretary, Forest Department, Mr Sanjay Kothari, said while presiding over the meeting of the district official on Tuesday.
More than 1600 families with low income have benefited from the concept of Leased Community Forest Project being implemented in the three constituencies of Sindhupalchowk district (Nepal). Altogether 202 farmers groups have been constituted in the district.
The Sri Lankan goverment has planned to utilize Drip Irrigation System to melt the present shortage of water in Sri Lanka for agricultural activities. A project for this purpose will be launched jointly by the Ministry of Irrigation and Water Management and the Ministry of Agriculture. Arrangements have been made …
A farmer's union in Murad Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, is opposing the construction of the conduit pipeline of Sonia Vihar treatment plant. The union has asked the local state government to instead constructed a bridge over the Hindon river. The construction work on the raw water conveyance system in UP is …
At a time, when the Assam State Police department has been observing 'Operation Green Earth Project' throughout the State with the help of other government and non-governmental social and nature organisations, conscious citizens of Udalguri area expected that the illegal felling of valuable logs by antisocial elements would come to …
Cutting across party lines, all the tribal MLAs of Assam today demanded of the Assam Government to withdraw the affidavit filed by Chief Secretary P K Bora before the Supreme Court where it had been submitted that indigenous tribal people are encroaching the State's forest lands in an alarming proportion.
Division Bench of Jammu Kashmir High Court Jammu comprising Chief Justice B C Patel and Justice S K Gupta in a Public Interest Litigation seeking protection of forests took serious note of the non-filling of counter affidavit by the State respondents. The petitioners have alleged in the PIL that despite …
Andhra Pradesh has submitted a Rs 60 crore scheme to the Centre for effectively tracking and controlling forest fires, mostly of a wild nature, conservator of forests KDR Jayakumar said on Wednesday. He said at a meet-the-press programme that the measures involved building of watch towers and educating the people, …
Forest officials of Vichundrem Forest Range in Sanguem taluka of Goa raided Columb mountain area and arrested one person involved in illegal felling of trees, while two others accused are absconding.
