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 …
Hundreds of forest and peat fires have burnt thousands of hectares of farmland in Malaysia during a recent dry spell, authorities said. Most of the fires were started by farmers clearing land for plantations.
Despite the Supreme Court ban on felling of trees and movement of timber, the forest cover in Assam has declined during the last five years. In 1997, Assam ranked 11th in the country's list of states having forest land. However, it came down to 12th in 1999 according to a …
The festivities of January 1, 2002, signified the sealing of a pact between the Kerala government and the Adivasi Dalit Samara Samithi (agitation council) on October 16, 2001. The agreement guarantees allotment of one to five acres (around .5-2 hectares) of land to all landless tribal families in the state …
The closure of tunnels T3 and T4 comes even as a vast majority of people displaced remain to be rehabilitatedeven as recommendations of the Union government appointed Hanumantha Rao Committee remain to beimplementedeven as the Prime Minister appointed Murli Manohar Joshi committee is yet to submit its report and even …
A Bush administration plan to create a test program allowing a national forest to be managed by a local group was criticized by an Oregon Democrat who said it might favor timber and mining interests before environmental protection.
Chilean forest rangers accused the government of failing to provide enough money to combat forest fires that have already destroyed 42,000 acres (17,000 hectares) of native forest in southern Chile's popular tourism zone.
A fast-moving brush fire that has scorched more than 3,000 acres (1,214 hectares) near San Diego burned its way into a Marine Corps training base, as firefighters took advantage of calmer winds to send an airtanker up to fight the blaze from the skies.
Chipko 2001 coordinator J P Dabral has leveled charges of corruption and mismanagement against Uttaranchal government and the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests at a press conference held at the Press Club of India in the Capital today. He accused Power Grid Corporation, Ministry of Environment and Forests and …
Large areas of forest will be destroyed in five years because of logging by Indonesia's two largest pulp producers,environmental groups warned. The Center of International Forestry Research and the World Wide Fund for Nature said a study showed that two pulp producers the Sinar Mas and Raja Garuda Mas groups, …
Pakistan President Gen Pervez Musharraf has urged all citizens to join hands to protect and manage forests in Pakistan on a sustainable basis. In a message on the occasion of Spring Tree Planting Campaign 2002, he said the scarcity of forests in Pakistan made it necessary that all citizens of …
Officials from the World Bank and the Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun, visited the Seonthi Research Centre of the state Forest Department yesterday. Briefing the visiting members about various ongoing research trials in the Haryana state, the Deputy Conservator of the Forest Research and Training Division, Mr. Vivek Saxena, said …
The World Bank has sanctioned a soft loan of Rs 300 crore to the Chattisgarh government for non-destructive forest management in the new state. The soft loan, involving a grant of 30 per cent, will be disbursed over a period of five years. The state cabinet has expressed happiness over …
In a view of the increasing forest fires, it has been decided that the menace will be jointly dealt with by the official forest protection force and the newly-formed Surat village forest fire protection committees. With nearly 413 cases of forest fires in South Gujarat last year, affecting nearly 300 …
Forest fires raged out of control in southern Chile, ravaging prized native forests and nature reserves in what the government said was the worst disaster to hit the popular tourism zone in several years.
Himachal Pradesh Forest Minister, Thakur Roop Singh warned that the forest mafia in the state would be crushed with an iron hand. He said a drive had been launched against illicit felling and smuggling through out the state. He extolled the role of village forest development committees which are playing …
Abject poverty forces the rural poor to be dependent upon forest. If they are given occupation, their dependence on forest can be reduced to some extent, though it cannot be eliminated completely. Forestry Advisor to chief Minister and retired PCCF, DP Singh expressed these views, while delivering a lecture on …
The Himachal Pradesh Forest Department has launched a statewide forest fire safety awareness programme. Under the programme, workshops will be organised in various parts of the state wherein members of the respective forest committees, panchayats, mahila mandals and yuva mandals will participate.
After nearly three days of court-ordered negotiations, the United States Forest Service agreed to reduce substantially the size of a timber sale on large tracts of the Bitterroot National Forest that burned in wildfires in 2000. In exchange, environmentalists agreed to end their appeals on the remaining acreage and allow …
The ultimate floating hotel, a "cycler" to carry astronauts, and ultimately tourists, in orbit between Earth and Mars, is being worked on by US engineers. Cyclers are the brainchildren of Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, one of the two Apollo astronauts to make the pioneering visit to the moon in 1969.
The U.S. Forest Service agreed to remove 27,000 acres of roadless old growth forest and sensitive fish habitat from a planned logging project in the Bitterroot National Forest in Montana. The settlement with several conservation groups ends months of contentious dispute over a massive, 46,000 acre timber sale that environmentalists …
