Campal trees to be axed for widening of roads
37 rain trees will have to be sacrificed on the altar of road widening of the Kala Academy to Miramar stretch, in Goa, proposed by the Public Works Department. From the 37 trees for which the Forest Department has already granted a NoC to the PWD, 22 belong to the …
Centre wants diesel as alternative fuel in Delhi
The Centre stated before the Supreme Court today that it was not against the introduction of CNG for Delhi's public transport, but it also wanted diesel as an alternative fuel. The adulteration of diesel in the state was minimal, it maintained.
Colorado logging project appealed
Conservation groups are appealing a Forest Service decision to log roadless lands as part of the Upper South Platte Watershed Protection and Restoration Project in the Pike-San Isabel National Forest. The administrative appeal of the January decision, filed by seven conservation groups, marks the second time that conservationists have challenged …
Computer models track smoke from prescribed burns
U.S. Forest Service (USFS) researchers are testing desktop modeling programs to provide forest managers the real-time information they need to reduce the impact of smoke from prescribed burning. Prescribed burning - the deliberate setting of fires under controlled conditions - is used to treat some six to eight million acres …
Greenpeace seeks seizure of Amazonian timber
Greenpeace has taken the government to court in a bid to force it to seize a cargo of Amazonian mahogany which it says has been imported illegally. The 811-cubic-metre cargo aboard the ship MV Cunene is moored at Birkenhead docks near Liverpool pending the outcome of the trial.
New forest policy of government
According to new forest policy local people would have the first claim, over the forest produce. Encroachments after 25 October 1, 1980 would not be shifted to other places. Special courts at district level would be established for speedy redressal of cases pertaining to forest and wild animals. Madhya Pradesh …
Sunderbans sorrow
It is an irony that when the Left Front West Bengal government has taken the bold step of inviting private enterprise and investment to promote tourism in the Sunderbans, there should be plain loot of precious timber in the forest administered by Sunderbans Development Board. There has been no development …
Green revolution hit forest, vast patch of pasture: Singh
The Green revolution was achieved at the cost of the vast patch of pasture, forest as well as animal husbandry in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, former deputy director of Indian council of agriculture research Dr. Kiran Singh on Tuesday observed.
CAG detects Rs 15 crore revenue loss in State Forest Department
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India has detected loss of detected loss of revenue amounting to Rs 15.14 crore in 72 cases in teh Forest Department in teh year 2000-01. The CAG, in its report for the year 2000-01, which was tabled in the State Assembly recently said that …
Forest fires erupts in C'magalur
Hundreds of acres of forest area have been destroyed following forest fire at Churchegudda near Beekanahalli in the Chikmagalur district of Karnataka today. Many huge trees and medical plants have been destroyed in the fire.
Timber worth Rs 210 m stolen from Kanchanput
Lawmakers, Lal Bahadur Biswokarma and Urbadatta Panta who represent the far-western plain district of Kanchanpur, Nepal in the National Assembly, said that the wood smugglers have stolen valuable sal trees equivalent to Rs 210 million from the jungle of Laljhaid over the last two weeks.
Tree felling poses danger of soil erosion at Galgibaga
The KRC had planted a number of trees between the St. Anthony's High School at Galgibaga, Goa, and the KRC bridge to curb soil erosion, but illegal felling of trees during the past few weeks has posed a danger in the area. School teachers informed that over 70 trees have …
Timber smugglers make hay after CM sermon
Timber smugglers have chopped down several trees planted by the forest department in the Gosaba area (West Bengal) of the Sunderbans. The felling took place over a two km stretch immediately after the 'Banabibi Utsav' in the first week of January.
Burning woods
The disturbingly close frequently with which forest fire incidents are being reported from different parts of Karnataka of late is a cause for serious concern. Close on the heels of the reports on the havoc played by the fire on nearly 70 acres of forest in the Somawarpet taluk of …
Azhar for dams to solve water crisis
Lahore (Pakistan) President Mian Muhammad Azhar has expressed concern over the serious water crisis in the country and called for the construction of big and small dams for solving the water shortage problem.
'Lax attitude of forest department cause for forest fires'
The Nature Conservation Guild has alleged that the lack of proper planning and preparation of the local forest officials has been the cause of the spread of the forest fires in Karnataka. Urging the forest department to take 'decisive steps' and formulate action plans to control forest fires in the …
Toxic wastes
The issue of the toxic wastes that had been exported to Bangladesh by Stoller Chemical Company and Transcontinental Imex more than a decade ago is still hanging fire, even though a judgment in the US court through the efforts of the US Environmental Protection Agency provided the funds needed for …
CRPF leaving Berbera forest range
Withdrawing the CRPF without making any alternative arrangements will spell doom for the rich Berbera-Dhuanali Forests, in Orissa lamented forest department sources while informing that the CRPF which had adopted the forests since 1994 is abandoning the famous forest range.
Bandipur forests to be closed from March 11
The Bandipur National Park, which is a project tiger reserve, will remain closed for visitors from March 11. In view of forest fires in the neighbouring Madhumalai forest sanctuary and some stray incidents of fires in the park, the forest department has ordered the closure of the park from March …
