Drive to make Fatehabad greener
The Commissioner and Secretary, forest Department, Haryana, Mr. Sanjay Kothari, today chaired a meeting of heads of various government departments with a view to make the district greener. The Deputy Commissioner, Mr. R.B. Langyaan, was also present at the meeting. Mr. Kothari said his department had set up a target …
Handing over of forest dept to district govt demanded
The District Mushawarat Committee (DMC) has demanded of the provincial government to devolve the forest department to the district government so that it can be effectively managed. The DMC, officials said, decided to make this demand after receiving complaints of corruption and mismanagement in the department. The officials said the …
No progress in forest land protection initiative
No progress has been made so far to protect forest land from the land-grabbers despite a June 15 decision taken by the executive district officer of Revenue Department. At a meeting, chaired by the Zila Nazim, Khursheed Junejo, it was decided that the Mukhtiarkars of Larkana and Dokri would be …
BMP plans to give fresh lease of life for neglected parks
The ambitious programme of the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike - "Jana Udyana Vana" - aimed at restoring greenery to the city by developing 100 parks and gardens is set to be launched by Chief Minister S M Krishna in the first week of July. This is for the first time in …
'Complete water recharging work in dist. by July 7'
Divisional Commissioner Ram Sajeevan issued strict orders to officials concerned to complete the water recharging measures in the 71 villages of Indore by July 7. The orders were issued during a meeting of public health engineering department on Wednesday.
Green groups aided spread of US fires - Veneman
The Bush administration blamed environmental groups for contributing to raging forest fires such as the ones in Arizona and Colorado by blocking the federal government's effort to remove dangerous underbrush.
HP warned against forest land allotment
The Union Ministry of Environment and forests has warned Himachal Pradesh against the allotment of forest land for agricultural purposes. The Himachal Government, however, denied any fresh allotments, maintaining that certain allotments, running into a few hundred cases, were made long ago. People in the tribal belt of Kinnaur have …
The road to progress costs environment dear
In places like Bidar and Gulbarga, in Karnataka it is even more difficult to comprehend the environmental damage caused in the name of development. More than 10,000 trees will be sacrificed in these twin districts to pave the way for progress. The highly ambitious World Bank-funded upgradation of the Bidar-Srirangapatna …
Peru swaps debt for tropical rainforest protection
Peru's rare pink river dolphins, jaguars, scarlet macaws, walking palms and giant water lilies will be better protected after an agreement signed today in Washington under which the United States cancelled $14 million in Peruvian debt payments.
Brazil seizes record haul of illegal mahogany
Brazil said this week it had seized a record haul of illegally cut mahogany worth about 80 million reais ($29 million), in its latest victory against the unlicensed harvest of the valuable wood. The Ibama environmental agency said in a statement posted on its Web site the 7,000 logs of …
Indonesia says permanent log export ban in place
Indonesia has imposed a permanent ban on log exports to protect its dwindling tropical forests, Forestry Minister Muhammad Prakosa said. Prakosa said around 5,000 hectares (12,300 acres) of the country's lush forests had been lost to illegal logging every day for the past five years.
Firefighters in Arizona hope to put out blaze
An explosive, 500-square-mile wildfire burned nearly to the doorstep of this evacuated mountain town on Monday as ash rained down on crews desperately fighting to hold back the flames. The largest fire in Arizona history burned to within half a mile of this town of 7,700 by Monday night. It …
10,000 trees to make way for new J-K township
The Supreme Court ban on felling of green trees not withstanding, more than 10,000 fully grown trees on the outskirts of Jammu city are going to be face the axe. The Forest Department has handed over more than 600 kanals of forest land at Sidrah to Jammu Development Authority (JDA) …
CPWD takes life of 100 trees for widening a road
More than 100 trees have been cut done by the CPWD to widen Aruna Asaf Ali Road, that leads to Jawarharlal Nehru University for the South Delhi area of Vasant Kunj. The road is being broadened with a divider in between the two lanes. Ironically, the bulldozing is taking place …
Degradation of forests
A series of reports based on new maps covering nearly half of the world's forests concludes that vast areas of remaining intact or old growth and primary forests are being degraded as the result of unsustainable development practices. The reports, released by the World Resources Institute's (WRI) Global Forest Watch, …
Reserve forest made farm land
Five to six acre of forest land at Koinadu, coming under the Sampaje reserve forest limits in Mangalore, has been made agriculture land after destroying the forest on the land. Tees, worth lakhs of rupees, have been felled. Five persons were arrested in this connection.
Felling green to get out of red
The fund-starved Himachal Pradesh government is seriously pursuing the proposal to carry out green fellings. The proposal had run into rough weather following the ruling of the Supreme Court that "silvicultural removals" will be allowed in accordance with forest working plans only if the state concerned allocates a separate budget …
Portico finds a way in logging
Costa Rica is not an easy place to run a logging business. Environmental sensitivity is so high that trees cannot be cut down without exhaustive plans and government permission, and public opinion and pressure groups round noisily on anybody perceived to be damaging the rain-forest.
Eviction drive at Assam-Nagaland border reserve forest areas
The four reserve forests within Golaghat district of Assam are Diphu reserve forest, South Numbar, Rengma and Doyang which are situated on the Nagaland border. Nagaland encroached large areas of the four reserve forests. The government of Assam with the strength of Supreme Court verdict began to continue eviction operation …
Evictees should not reoccupy forest : HC
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Monday ordered that none of the persons evicted from the Mathikettan shola be permitted to reoccupy any of the reserved forest lands in the state.
