Forests

Judgment of the Supreme Court regarding status of Zudpi lands in Maharashtra, 22/05/2025

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 …

Hell and high water

Close to a thousand people in 17 villages in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh face an uncertain future as submergence under the Maan dam project looms ahead of them but the needed rehabilitation and resettlement measures remain a distant dream.

Centre tells HP to get encroached land vacated

While the Himachal Pradesh Government has come out with a policy to regularise encroachments in urban and rural areas, the Centre has taken a serious notice of the alarming increase in encroachments on forest land and asked the state to launch a special drive to get the encroached land vacated.

10 lakh saplings may run to seed

The target of planting about 10 lakh saplings in the district in the coming monsoon season may not be difficult to achieve but what is doubtful is their survival. Owing to the lack of proper care, the survival rate of sapling, planted on earlier occasions, has been very poor so …

Arizona fire forces evacuations

As many as 4,000 people were ordered out of their homes as a wind-whipped wildfire exploded to 25,000 acres as it leaped from treetop to treetop in the mountains of eastern Arizona. Authorities ordered the tiny towns of Linden, Pinedale and Clay Springs evacuated, said Kartha Icenhour of the Apache-Sitgreaves …

US firm designs airship to rain on forest fires

A California company is working on a giant airship that would help battle major forest fires by effectively creating an artificial rainstorm. The 300-metre (1000-ft) propeller-powered airship would be capable of carrying just under a million litres (220,000 gallons) of water and could be refilled from other aircraft.

Website by MCH to solve civic problems

Next time you see a tree and feel it may cause inconvenience to road users, log on to www.ourmch.com and ask the MCH authorities to chop it down. The Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad has decided to take "online" public opinion into consideration with regard to felling of trees. The decision …

Wooden hearts

Assam's drive against forest encroachment was meant to be a token of its earnestness to execute the Supreme Court's February directive. Because a government shorn of political resolve can lest be expected to achieve anything of lasting consequence. The union ministry for environment and forests set September as the deadline …

Colorado wildfire may have been intentionally set

Federal investigators have concluded that the Forest Service employee charged with starting a fire that has burned more than 100,000 acres in central Colorado set the blaze deliberately and lied when she said she had touched it off accidentally by burning a letter inside a campfire ring, a senior Forest …

Move to plant 11 lakh saplings

The Divisional Forest Officer, Mr. C.K. Shahi, said today that 1.15 lakh saplings would be planted in Kapurthala, Jalandhar and Nawanshahr districts this season. Three species, including value, those having wood value and ornamental ones would be planted this and next months. The plantation would start with the onset of …

Kaani tribals prove their mettle as forest watchers

Kaani tribals, the sons of the soil, who lead a simple life in the leafy grey atmosphere of the jungle terrains of Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari districts of Tamil Nadu are leaving their traditional abodes to become forest watchers.

CBI inquiry in forest fire sought

A writ petition was filed today in the State High Court, Jammu wing seeking CBI inquiry into the fire incident which destroy thousands of kanals of forest land, recently near Bhathindi and other parts of the Jammu region. It has been alleged in the petition that the land has been …

Sudden brake to massive Deroi Reserve Forest eviction

The massive eviction drive launched by Forest Department in Deroi Reserve Forest under Mahmora LAC of Sivasagar district of Assam has been temporarily stopped. It is worth mentioning here that apart from illegal encroachment, the State Government had established 14 forest villages in the reserve forest. According to forest officials, …

Saplings planted

Bagmati Integrated Watershed Management Programme has started planting saplings of 500000 different herbs in Kathmandu. Lilitpur, Bhakiapur, Kavrepalanchok, Sindhuli, Makwanpur districts and other water-shed areas.

Millennium park gets going

One of the longest parks of Delhi, The Millennium Park, which has bee reclaimed out or a wasteland, was inaugurated by the Union Home Minister, L K Advani, today. Claiming that the development of 50 parks was on the anvil in Delhi, Mr. Advani - who was urged by both …

More plants in city, but experts doubt their survival

One of the greenest cities of the country, New Delhi will get 735,000 more saplings next month. But environmentalists are not sure how many of them will survive. Come July and authorities will rope in schoolchildren, voluntary groups and residents to regain the greenery that is fading as concrete expands …

BMC still to form Tree Authority

Mumbai that has just been through a scorching summer ought to have realised the importance of green cover, but the lesson is lost on the BMC. Even three months after the newly-elected civic house met, it is still to constitute the Tree Authority. The authority comprises 15 corporators and 15 …

SC order provides scope for regeneration of Andaman forests

The over-exploited forests of the Andaman and Nicobar islands have now got a breather, with the Supreme Court recently passing an order to close all saw mills in the islands and coming down heavily on encroachers. The Supreme Court order, passed in May 2002, states that the Andamans are an …

Colorado wildfire grows, reinforcements arrive

A wildfire raging out of control southwest of metropolitan Denver grew to about 100,000 acres (40,000 hectares) last week as reinforcements arrived to redouble the battle against the giant blaze.

New drive on tree plantation

The Delhi Environment Minister, Deep Chand Bandhu, has initiated a mass campaign to plant 7.35 lakh saplings in the Capital during monsoon. An action plan in this regard has been formulated and local bodies are already being geared up to this effect.

Rain trees: 7 lakh saplings to be planted in monsoon

Around 7.35 lakh saplings will be planted in various parts of Delhi during the monsoon. This was announced by Environment Minister Deep Chand Bandhu in the Capital today. Outlining the tree plantation campaign would be carried out at two levels simultaneously - by the citizens of Delhi as well as …

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