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 …
Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa has commenced a long march which attempts to bring in radical socio-economic changes through wasteland development. The mission is to ensure growth with development which leaves no families below the poverty line.
In continuing with its eviction drive, the Assam State Forest Department demolished 229 houses in the South Kalapahar Reserve Forest (RF) area of Guwahati city today and freed 37 hectares of land from encroachment.
Now researchers think that they have found the perfect spider-silk factory where few would look: the udders of dairy goats. On farms in the Montreal suburbs and in upstate New york, researchers are breeding hundreds of goats genetically engineered to produce milk rich with spider silk proteins that can be …
Forest Minister K Sudhakaran today said that the Kerala Government was determined to thwart the moves by organisations like Infam and the Adivasi Gothrasabha to encroach upon forest land at any cost. The Forest department would implement contract system for carrying out various developmental activties since the present system of …
Greenpeace took the British government to court for a second time yesterday to try to force it to clamp down on imports of Amazonian mahogany. Greenpeace said its lawyers argued that Britain's decision not to seize Britain-bound shipments of mahogany from the Amazon rainforest contravened the Convention on the International …
The formation of a National Bamboo Technology Mission by the Government should not come as a surprise to those interested in bamboo and its products. The establishment of the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR) and the indication of IDRC - and UNDP - funded projects for the development …
At times a species of animal splits into two without evolving in isolation for thousands of years. This phenomenon has nagged biologists since centuries. But now they have found an explanation for this intriguing occurrence in the curly shells of snails. Mats Bjorklund and Jonathan Stone from Sweden-based Uppsala University …
for the first time, one type of human cells have been turned into another kind. Conventional scientific wisdom states that once a skin cell, always a skin cell. But researchers at the University of Oslo, Norway, have recently proved this wrong. The scientists used chemicals found in the body to
When a neem tree falls, it's a loss forever. At least 1,500 trees fell or were damaged during Monday night's storm. Neems were the biggest casualty. Gulmohars and eucalyptus trees were also damaged.
Nearly 1,000 firefighters battled a huge forest fire in northern Alberta yesterday, with officials holding out little hope of bringing the blaze, which has already forced the evacuation of one small community, under control any time soon. The fire, which has been devouring vast tracts of woodlands near the tiny …
A Deputy Ranger posted in Daboka range was driving a truck loaded with illegally felled teak logs himself when the DFO intercepted him near Daboka. A case was filed against this officials and the truck which belonged to the Deputy Ranger was confiscated. Out of 11,000 hectares of reserve forest …
And India, like many other countries, is bearing the brunt of this pesticide over use. Pesticide consumption in Indian Agriculture has been on the rise for the last 10 to 15 years. Therefore, it is not surprising that farmers of agriculturally prosperous states are slowly but surely becoming victims of …
Rhododendron bushes common in the northern belt of Jhapa district are decreasing fast. Unchecked clearance of the bushes for various purposes and the butterfly lava feeding on the plant have threatened the existence of rhododendron bushes that grew wild in the forest in the past. Rhododendron is the national flower …
Chief minister Digvijay Singh had ordered a high level probe into the complaint of the Congress MLA Virendavan Badgayyan that costly timber trees were felled illegally in Maihar by some unscrupulous elements and the forest department failed to take action against them.
Forest area in Dolakha district has expanded following the development of community forest that provides the users the responsibility and right to preserve and utilise the forest and its products.
The Forest Department of Assam has been urged to provide better infrastructure in the jungles of the upper Assam districts, especially at the proposed Jyodehing Wildlife Sanctuary. Presently, there is a severe constraint of infrastructural facilities which is affecting the functioning of the Forest department staff.
Efforts are being made by various nature based organisations as well as the Police Department to green the Assam state by planting 5 lakh saplings under Seuji Dharani project 2002. But it seems that Dhubri forest division is on the run from illegal timber smuggling.
For the past several years, the economically deprived slum dwellers in Madhya Pradesh were having a field day with "free electricity" being doled out to them by the State Government being used blatantly for cooking food on electric stoves. But since this facility has now been withdrawn, the trees that …
The very trees the people of Tehri Garhwal had hugged and saved many decades ago during the Chipko Movement are now in danger again. The forests which fall en route the power line being laid from the Tehri dam, according to the natives will result in destruction of over one …
Under the 'Project Green Earth' the Assam Police has launched plantation in N C Hills through planting hundreds of sapling in Haflong Govt. College Hostel premises recently.
