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 …
The Comptroller and Auditor General of Indian (CAG) has indicted several top officials in the Jammu State Forest Department and the State Forest Corporation (SFC) for causing loss worth crores to the department and alleged misappropriation of public funds in last 4-5 years. The CAG report released recently has clearly …
The Delhi government claims that the city's green cover has increased from 26 sq. km to 88 sq. km in the past two years. The forest department has also been emphasising the need to develop more green areas to control pollution and strengthen the underground water table. However, contrary to …
Depletion of mangroves at a rapid pace is posing a serious threat to the environment in the coastal region. Mangrove forests protect the coastal areas from cyclones and hurricanes. Their depletion led to a sharp decline in the average annual rainfall in the region, particularly in Krishna and Godavari districts.
The Delhi Metro Rail Project had affected a green area covered by 7,300 trees. Of these 2,350 trees were to be transplanted and the remaining 450 to be cut, Union minister for state for urban development Bandaru Dattatreya said in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.
Revenue Department employees in Hosanagar taluk had allegedly helped in uprooting areca plants, coconut trees and other fully grown trees from a stretch of land belonging to a farmer, Halappa, at Hirejeni village in Karnataka last Thursday.
Environmental activists experienced climate change first-hand when their demonstration outside a major environment summit in the alpine town of Banff was buffeted by driving rain, then blinding sleet and snow within just a few minutes. About 50 Greenpeace members and supporters, most dressed up as owls, began their 2 km …
A MLA belonging to the ruling Congress party today raised the issue of rapidly depleting forests, in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly, and accused the Madhya Pradesh Forest Department officials of conniving with those involved in massive felling and smuggling of timber from the Maihar forests in Satna District.
There is nothing new in planting trees in memory of the loved ones. But Smriti Vatika at Kanan Pendari in Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh is unique. An entire stretch of 300 acres of land is being developed into a forest and all trees would be planted by villagers to keep …
The World Bank has regretted certain lapses in implementation of the first phase of Andhra Pradesh forestry project known as Joint Forest Management and agreed to cover the tribals evicted from podu lands under the banks resettlement policy.
'Van panchayats' were hastily formed in Uttaranchal to secure and use the World Bank funds under the joint management (JFM) programme, according to New Delhi's School of Planning and Architecture's study. According to one of the case studies, the patwari of Srikot village in the Pauri district lured the people …
For the last three decades, the villagers of Karauli district in Rajasthan had grown accustomed to listening to the blasts of mines. And worse, to having their fields rendered useless for cultivation. With illegal miners clearing large tracts of land, and using dynamites for creating quarries, agriculture is no longer …
according to a report of the comptroller and auditor general of India pertaining to the year 2000-2001, the forest department of Assam incurred a loss of Rs 15.14 crore in 72 cases. Revenue amounting to Rs 9.07 crore was lost due to damage of timber, Rs 1.6 crore for delay …
The Orissa Government has decided to install 5,000 more tubewells in various districts of the state in order to tackle the severe drinking water crisis in the state.
Educational, Environment, Social Sports and Cultural Society has organised a plantation drive by planting more than 1000 non fruit plants at village Samaie, Jammu in degraded area.
At first glance, the footpath opposite the Glaxo company at 'Worli (Maharashtra) reveals nothing amiss; a number of trees trying to stand firm and brave the elements. However a loser look shoes that the branches of 18 of them have been hacked to clear the view of line of hoardings.
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court today restrained the State Government from undertaking all non-forest activities, including construction of road, felling of trees at Mathikettan Shola and from making any assignment of land there. Nature Lovers Movement, Thiruvamkulam, had challenged the encroachments in 3,000 hectares of natural, evergreen …
A social project will be launched in ten districts of Madhya Pradesh to increase bamboo production and upgrade the skill in manufacturing of bamboo products. The Rs 13.69 crore bamboo project has been sanctioned for the districts of Satna, Mandla, Panna, Chhatarpur, Narsinghpur, Shahdol, Balaghat, Guna, Sidhiand seoni.
The Punjab Urban Development Authority (PUDA's) plan to sell residential plots near Upper Bari Doab Canal, under its Swarn Vihar scheme has run into trouble with the Forest Department laying claim to the land, and accusing PUDA of not taking permission fro the Central Government. The scheme was regarding two …
Greenpeace activists chained themselves to a Japanese ship docked in Chile this week to protest the use of native tree species to make wood chips. The environmental protesters aimed to prevent the "Iwanuma Maru" freighter from loading 452,100 cubic feet (42,000 cubic metres) of wood chips made from prized species …
Kolar district in Karnataka is one of the only four places in the world (the other three being in Scotland, Mexico and Louisiana) where Pink Floyd's ambitions are going green. And ambition here means sponsoring the plantation of 7,600 trees including tamarind, mango and others. In a rare endeavour last …
