State ignored expert panel's recommendations
Though the expert committee on identification of forest areas in Assam, formed as per the directive of the Supreme Court, had expressed concern at the depletion of the forest cover and recommended finalisation of a forestry action plan way back in 1997, the State Government failed to act on time …
IMC targets to plant 10000 saplings
The Indore Municipal Corporation in a major plantation drive has set a target to plant 10000 saplings at Piplyapala under Piplyapala beautification drive on Thursday. The corporation has appealed to all the organisations in the city to help in achieving the plantation targets.
Greening Asola-Bhatti sanctuary
A silent revolution is underway at the Asola-Bhatti sanctuary. Till a few years back, it was just another part of the southern Delhi Ridge. It was rocky and hard, almost devoid of soil and barren, supporting only some thorny shrubs. The story begins about 10 years back when Asola - …
700 riflemen to guard forests, 200 rifles in workshop!
With its depleted strength, the Assam Forest Protection Force (AFPF) is fighting a losing battle against encroachers, poachers ad other antisocial who have ravaged the reserved forests and national parks in the State. Despite repeated requests made by the Assam Government to raise at least two more battalions of the …
SC team indicts Mizo officials for complicity in timber trade
Three middle level officials of the Mizoram environment and Forest Department have been indicted by a Supreme Court appointed special investigating team (SIT) in two separate instances of non compliance with the various orders of the Apex Court's rulings and order on the ban on timber trade. "High level Government …
Forest Protection Force introduced wireless system
In order to ensure protection of forests, forest produce and curbing the menace of timber smuggling, the Forest Protection Force has introduces the wireless system in Kashmir Division. All the Gama Units (District Headquarters) and forest protection vehicles have been connected with this system. The Forest Control Rooms are also …
Scorched-earth politics
A third dry summer is a row has brought another wave of forest fires to the American West. With 2 million acres already gone and summer just begun, it would seem logical for everyone to set differences aside and pursue the sound firefighting strategy devised by the Clinton administration and …
U.S. forest industry raises conservation standards
North American timber companies have adopted expanded protection goals for forests with exceptionally high conservation values. The Sustainable Forestry Board today announced stronger provisions for the Sustainable Forestry Initiative Standard, which will be applied to more than 60 million acres in the United States and Canada.
'Assam forest cover just 16%, protection measures on war-footing needed'
Assam Forest Minister Pradyut Bordoloi today said that if the forest protection measures are not implemented on a war footing, Assam would turn into a desert within a few years time. Bordoloi said that a huge stretch of forest land stretching from Kokrajhar to Dhemaji on the north bank of …
53rd Vanamohotsava celebrated in Arunachal Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh today celebrated the 53rd Vanamahotsava in Itanagar along with the rest of the country observing awareness programmes on forest conservation. Speaking on the occasion, Chief Minister Mukut Mithi called upon the people to conserve forests since human survival directly depended on it. He said if forests could be …
Massive Bata plantation programme
Bata Bangladesh has taken up a massive plantation programme in their two factories premises to help protect environment. It may be mentioned that Bata has an exclusive environment committee headed by Human Resources Manager with a view to contributing in the preservation of environment round the year, says Press release.
Green drive begins near power plant
After successfully developing Kanan Pendari as the 'oxygen chamber' of Bilaspur, the district administration began another plantation drive to compensate for the trees felled by the National Thermal Power Corporation for its super thermal power plant at Sipat. The plantation drive was launched today on the 500 acres of land. …
Man set off Arizona wildfire to get work
A 29-year-old contract firefighter who was charged on Sunday with setting one of the major Arizona wildfires, allegedly started the blaze because he wanted some seasonal work, prosecutors said. Leonard Gregg, who works as a seasonal fire crew member for the federal bureau of Indian affairs, allegedly set two fires, …
Experts disagree on green cover
A green miracle or hogwash? Depends on whose claims you believe. While on one hand the Delhi state department of forests is congratulating itself on the successful greening of the Asola sanctuary, other conservationists are crying foul. At the centre of the controversy are figures posted by the Forest Survey …
Canadian prairies fire
A 17,300-acre fire near here has forced the evacuation of 300 people from the area and others are on evacuation alert, authorities said on Sunday night.
DFO silent over illegal timber felling
Following the destruction of range posts and the absence of a regular patrol, unauthorised felling of trees from the forests in Tanahun district (Nepal) is on the rise, but the District Forest Office (DFO) has not taken action, according to sources. In the latest case, around 200 valuable trees were …
Financing wasteland reclamation a viable activity: Experts
Bankers and experts from financial institutions agree that financing wasteland reclamation projects can be viable activity in Madhya Pradesh. This is one of the recommendations of the two day workshop of credit linkages for wasteland development that concluded at the Academy of Administration on Sunday.
The fragile ecosystem and Assam
Earlier forest was considered as a source of revenue and a bulk of the revenue used to come to the State exchequer from the forest. But now the situation has changed to such an extent that this idea has been dropped and the forest has to be preserved and protected …
Forest protection committees fall prey to corruption
Several public welfare projects of the Madhya Pradesh State government are in turmoil due to the corruption mounting over the forest protection committees. The State Government had formulated the forest protection committees with public participation for the protection and preservation of the green gold scattered in our forest ranges. The …
