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 Delhi Development Authority has undertaken plantation of trees in a big way for beautification of its parks, afforestation programmes and for controlling the spread of the western desert into the national Capital. The hub of this plantation drive is the upcoming Dwarka subcity in South West Delhi, where the …
Environmentalists have protested the increase in the excise duty on CNG, which will lead to the fuel becoming expensive by 90 paise. In a repeat of last year's move, the Union Finance Minister has hiked the excise duty on CNG from eight to 16 per cent while the price of …
Environmental activists threw themselves in front of a ship entering the Italian port of Salerno to highlight its cargo of African hardwood, as part of a campaign against deforestation. Four activists swam up to the ship and got close enough that the captain had to stop, a spokeswoman for environmental …
The Himachal Assembly today unanimously adopted a private member resolution, urging the Centre to suitably amend the Indian Forest Conservation Act to empower the state government to grant permission to use forest land for development activities.
Forest fires which flared up suddenly in the Bageri and Adinaduru forests in Karnataka coming under the Nidtha Reserve Forest Range in Somwarpet taluk, were brought under control today. Officials say animals like the hare, snakes, jungle fowl perished in the fires. Wild elephants and deer, found in fairly large …
The Nepal government decision to distribute the 400 bighas of forest land to freed Kamaiyas known as bonded labourers, in Baidiphani and Kalo Bel area of Dadhabar Village Development Committee (VDC)-8 has come under fire from VDC representatives. The government started logging trees for the process of land distribution 'The …
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) warned Russia's far eastern forests, one of the world's biggest areas of forest wilderness, risked destruction within five years because of illegal logging. The conservation organisation urged G7 countries, along with China and South Korea - two of the biggest markets - to …
Hundreds of log trucks will converge on central Melbourne in a protest against the Victorian government's proposed forest industry changes. The forest industry is angered by state government plans to reduce timber harvesting to sustainable levels, with unions foreshadowing thousands of job losses. The forest industry is angered by state …
A fire destroyed more than 50 square kilometres of blue pine forests surrounding Damchu, about seven kilometres towards Chukha, in Bhutan. Abetted by heavy winds, smoke that had wafted from the fire hung over the valley as far as Thimpu town, creating poor visibility.The blaze could not be put out …
In a bid to boost investment, Indonesia will issue a fresh set of rules to reduce restrictions on mining in forests. "We will issue new rules on mining in the forest. We are aware that foreign investors are confused about overlapping regulation but we will solve the problem,' said secretary …
Hundreds of acres of the most famous stretch of California coastline - the much photographed and filmed Bixby Ocean Ranch in Big Sur - has been added to the Los Padres National Forest, creating an 11 mile stretch of permanently protected coastline beginning at the Bixby Bridge and extending south …
Fires ravaging native forests in southern Chile, which had been contained last week, spread again at the weekend in what has become an 'environmental tragedy,' the government said. The fires have consumed at least 131,000 acres (53,000 hectares) of land, a third of which have prized native tree species found …
Despite the best possible efforts to contain the bush fires in several parts of the Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary, fresh fires are breaking out posing a major challenge to the wildlife officials. A glimpse at the sprawling 321 square kilometre sanctuary from a vantage point atop Kargudy hill in Tamil Nadu …
Bush fires, raging across many parts of Mudumalai wildlife sanctuary in the Nilgiris, are forcing wild animals to move from the forests to 'safer areas'. Apparently, the heat from the bush fires, which started a couple of days ago, is driving the animals to the highway.
Felling of trees is banned by an order of the Supreme Court, yet the illegal felling of trees is going on unabated in Upper Dehing Reserved rain forest in Assam by the smugglers. According to reports, about 200 hand-sawing mills are working day and night within the jurisdiction of Digboi, …
After much delay, the Millennium Park, situated on Outer Ring Road near Sarai Kale Khan, will soon be ready. Delhi Development Authority (DDA) is putting final touches to the park, which is the first-ever green area developed on a former Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) landfill. It is built on …
Statistics normally tend to conceal far more than they reveal. this is particularly true of government statistics. Thus when we are told in government handouts that almost 27.4 % of Assam is under forest cover, we must take it with a pinch of salt. For instance, it is an open …
The four-day training for the Forest Officers on Micro Planning under Joint Forest Management conducted by the Department of Forests and Environment was held at Orchid Lodge at Dokapgre, Ture, Meghalaya. Speaking at the opening ceremony on February 19, Dr. Tiwari said that the objective of this programme was to …
The World Bank would be sanctioning funds for 300 Vana Samrakshana Samitis in seven mandals of the Paderu forest division in the Agency region of Visakhapatnam district in Andhra Pradesh.
The Research Wing of the Tamil Nadu State Forest Department has planned to raise seed and clonal orchards for 25 commercial species like neem, simaruba glauca, teak, rosewood, vagai, porasu in the existing five nurseries in the state and in more places if the need arises.
