Forest department draws up three schemes
The research division of the Forest department has drawn up three major schemes - 'seed orchards, power mills' and 'farm tree to furniture' - for the coming financial year, Dr. G. Kumaravelu, Chief Conservator of Forests (Research),Tamil Nadu, told The Hindu. He said the department would set up orchards to …
Logging : Court seeks Himachal answer
Taking suo motu cognizance of a report in The Indian Express, the Himachal Pradesh High Court has issued notices to the state government and Malana Power Company for alleged illegal felling of 1,400 green forest trees at the Malana hydro project site in Kullu district.
Trees felled for marketing yard
A large number of trees were felled to construct a marketing yard at Kangani forest, situated just 3 km from Mandi, the district headquarters. The forest from this area was cleared without taking permission from Central Government although this fact was known to the Forest Department, but instead of taking …
State likely to get Rs 900 crore WB aid
Madhya Pradesh is likely to get Rs 900 crore financial assistance form the World Bank (WB), for the second phase of its forestry project. Expressing gratitude towards World Bank for holding discussions on the second phase of the forestry project, Forest Minister Harvansh Singh gave details about the achievements in …
Sprawl seen hurting South's forests
The US Forest Service has concluded in a study released today that the biggest threat to Southern forests is urban sprawl, a finding that to some degree absolves the timber industry for the effects of a logging boom that has transformed the South in recent decades.
Seizing tools used in illegal felling trees allowed
The Supreme Court ruled last week that forest authorities are entitled to confiscate not only illegally felled timber but also implements and tools used for illegal activities. Allowing the appeal of the West Bengal government against the judgement of the Calcutta High Court, the Supreme Court clarified that the power …
PIL on tree felling reserve forests dismissed
The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday dismissed a public interest writ petition seeking a direction to the State police to investigate the issue of massive destruction of reserve forests by smugglers with alleged involvement of forest department officials.
People familiarised on forestry rules
The forest and nature conservation rules of Bhutan, 2000, that came into force after approval by the council of ministers last years is now being explained to the people.
HC direction against tree cutting in Wayanad dist
The District Collector, Wayanad, has been directed by the Kerala High Court to ensure that the various departments, including the Revenue Department, do no do anything to aid the cutting and removal of trees from the forests in Wayanad district and from patta lands until further orders. The direction was …
$940m fund aims to save forests
After a protracted and heated debate, the Chinese Government has decided it will help set up an emergency fund to pay for forest protection. The first stage will involve a one-billion-yuan (HK$940 million) package supplied by the Finance Ministry for maintaining 13.3 million hectares of forests in 11 provinces this …
Afforestation project formed
Forest Minister Roop Singh Thakur has revealed that a Rs 47 crore afforestation project for the catchment area falling under Koldam project had been prepared under which a massive plantation was envisaged to protect and conserve the green cover in mountains and hills around this prestigious power project.
'Illegal logging could destroy Amazon in 50 years'
The Amazon, which represents a quarter of the planet's forests and is one of its most diverse reserves of plants and animals, could disappear within the next 50 years, environmental pressure group Greenpeace warned. At the current rate of destruction, the Amazon will be reduced in 50 years time to …
Forests facts
Forests cover about one-quarter of the world's land surface, excluding Greenland and Antarctica. Just over half of these forests are found in developing countries. Global forest cover has been reduced by at least 20 per cent since pre-agricultural times, possibly by 50 percent. Nearly all forests in Europe and the …
HP power firm pays up for felling 1,400 trees
Fearing criminal action for felling 1,400 green trees in Kullu district, the Malana Power Company today deposited Rs 63 lakh with Himachal Pradesh Forest Department as the price for the trees. The company had allegedly felled the trees spread over an area of 61 hectares at Jari village in Kullu …
Need for interaction among foresters, scientists
Top forestry experts have called for greater interaction among forest managers, users and scientists to strike a balance between forest production and consumption and improving the green cover essential for sustained development of the country.
Scheme to check timber smuggling
To check smuggling of timber from reserve forests, the West Bengal forest department is drawing up a multi-crore rupees economic regeneration scheme for the poor living in the fringe areas of forests in Midnapore, Bankura, Purulia and Jalpaiguri districts.
Living under a cloud the sheltered forests
The problem scientists say is deforestation but not within Monteverde's vast network of reserves. Instead in a new report in Science researchers offer evidence that deforestation in the lowlands is lifting the mountains curtain of life giving fog and mist out of the forest's reach leaving more and more of …
Something missing in fragile cloud forest: the clouds
Bathed in a curtain of life-giving fog and mist, the Monteverde cloud forest in the mountains of Costa Rica is a profusion of dripping green that stands as an international model of conservation gone right. But despite Monteverde's tens of thousands of protected acres, scientists say this tropical luxuriance, beloved …
Kenyan greens file suit to stop forest clearance
A leading Kenyan green group said yesterday it had filed a suit to block a government forest clearance plan, branding the scheme a political ploy that would cause irreversible environmental damage. The government said last month it would clear 170,000 acres (69,000 hectares) of woodland to house landless squatters, despite …
Chemical residues of garment plants, clinical wastes pollute Baridhara lake
Absence of planned sewerage system in Bangladesh's posh Gulshan, Banani and Baridhara areas caused the recent colossal damage to fishes in the Baridhara Lake and environment pollution in the surroundings, according to environment experts and city planners. Indiscriminate disposal of household wastes into the lake, both in solid and liquid …
