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 …
Madhya Pradesh is the first state in the country to offer share of forest produce profits to van samitis. An official release said that the samitis had conducted effective forest management. Over 12000 van samitis are managing over 54000 square kilometres of forests, including security and development work at present.
After a long period of 18 years since the inception of the Drinking Water Treatment Plant at Morkhad-Shristhal in Canacona, a full fledged laboratory to carry out physical, chemical and bacteriological tests has been set up at the plant.
The Delhi High Court has ordered an inquiry into the afforestation project of the Delhi Energy Development Agency (DEDA) in village Ujwa, Najafgarh, after it found that there was hardly any evidence of trees in the area. The DEDA, which is under the control of Delhi government, had earlier told …
After the environmentalists, it is now the turn of Comptroller and Auditor general of India(CAG) to pull up the Tamil Nadu government for bungling the textbook perfect Green Belt for Abatement of Pollution and Environment Improvement Scheme for 2000-2001.
over the past half-century, Earth's entire surface or the lithosphere has warmed up significantly and is gaining energy at approximately the same rate as the atmosphere and cryosphere (the portion of Earth's surface where water is in solid form such as sea ice, snow cover, glaciers, ice caps and permafrost). …
Anger and loneliness are just some of the feelings people express when they discover they have Alzheimer's. But what if you knew 20 years beforehand that this was to be your fate? This disturbing possibility has moved a step closer with researchers from St Louis-based Washington University School of Medicine …
A new study warns that if timber harvest continues unchecked in the Mexican cloud belt forests, millions of monarch butterflies who spend their winter there would face imminent threat in the coming few decades. To assess the effects of logging, researchers from Virginia-based Sweet Briar College analysed aerial images of …
Forest Minister, Peerzada Gh. Ahmed Shah has asked the functionaries of the Forest Department, field staff including Forest Protection Force to remain vigilant around the clock to prevent and control forest fires in Jammu.
Colleges in Chandigarh city will soon be green like never before. the UT Administration has decided to give colleges a free new look to make up for the depleting tree growth. And the choice of nearly 5,000 trees will be made by the college principal. The plants will be provided …
Illegal tree felling and smuggling of timber has assumed colossal proportion in the Terai and interior regions as the country's volatile situation of emergency has opened an excellent avenue for the black marketing and smuggling of timber.
Firefighters battled to douse flames as forest fires raged in Siberia and Russia's Far East, home to the endangered Amur tiger and leopard. Authorities in several provinces declared a state of emergency as firefighters, paratroopers and civilians battled fires burning across more than 54,000 hectares (135,000 acres), an official at …
The Madhya Pradesh Government is taking radical steps to promote active participation of local village-level communities in commercial exploitation of forests and this was forcefully convened by the State Chief Minister, Digvijay Singh, when he said at a special function over the weekend that his government is fully committed to …
Firefighters battled a forest fire spread by gustly winds on Monday, trying to keep it away from rare salmon in the area. The blaze, which broke out on Saturday destroyed 250 acres of forest on Mount Li.
Hundreds of forest fires have swept over more than 135,000 acres in the Russian Far East this week, destroying trees and threatening the homes of endangered animals such as Amur tigers and Siberian leopards.
Forest fire that had been creating havoc and had destroyed forest cover in various parts of Jammu and Kathua districts have been brought under control.
The Early Bird', an Organisation for nature care in North-east India extends its full support to the ongoing eviction drive from the forest land and wildlife areas of the State including Guwahati city. It referred to the Guwahati High Court's judgment often then Chief Justice Brijesh Kumar and Justice N …
There is indeed something intriguing and bizarre about the belated eviction drives being undertaken by the Forest Department with the aid of the district administration. According to the latest reports, about 2,764 lakh hectares out of the total 23,424 lakh hectares of reserve forest land in Assam (about 11.8 per …
Bhopal Municipal Corporation(BMC) has banned digging of borewells within a distance of 150 mts. Those violating the directive would have to face action against provisions of MP Drinking Water Testing Act, 1986.
The Punjab government has decided to go in for the partial privatisation of the rural water supply system in the state with an aim to provide better water supply facilities to the people.
About 15 lakh trees would be planted throughout the district in response to Maharashtra Government's new ambitions plan Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Water & Soil Conservation Programme, according to district collector Venugopal Reddi.
