Forest policy stresses on green vegetation
Chhattisgarh government announced its new forest policy in which emphasis has been given to the expansion of green vegetation and converting the newly created state into a herbal state. Though the national policy recommends 33 per cent forest cover Chhattisgarh announced its new forest policy to further strengthen and expand …
Eucalyptus : From bane to boon
The much maligned eucalyptus often branded as a "guzzler" and "destroyer of the fields" has turned out to be a boon for Andhra Pradesh. The Forest Department corporation took up the cultivation of the plant with a Rs 30-crore loan obtained from the World Bank.
Fire on the Mountain
The Ministry of Environment leds its weight to a fight to save the shola forests of Kudremukh from an iron-ore mining company.
SC bans felling of trees in Andaman
Taking serious note of the depleting forest cover of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the Supreme Court, in a landmark judgement, has imposed a complete ban on the felling of any naturally grown tree in the islands. One of the first projects to be directly affected by the Supreme Court …
90-day deadline on green status
Concerned over the delay in implementing pollution control norms for vehicles, a division bench of Calcutta High Court set a 90-day deadline for the West Bengal government to report on steps it had taken to phase out old cars.
Plan to increase protected forest areas
The State Government is actively considering a proposal to augment the extent of protected areas of reserve forests, Mr. J. C. Kala, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, said. Talking to reporters, he said that as against the national average of four per cent protected areas, Tamil Nadu accounted for 13 …
Tree felling banned
Incensed by the mindless felling of trees in the Andaman and Nicobar islands for developmental work, the Supreme Court on Wednesday slapped a ban on the island administration from cutting any tree in the natural forests.
Forestry has more to sell than timber
There have been many attempts to develop constructive links between commerce and conservation. But few have been as ambitious as those in forestry. In Australia, investors are funding a tree planting company that will pay carbon and salinity "credits" instead of cash dividends. In Costa Rica, forest owners receive fees …
Saving the forest for the trees
Dow BioProducts Ltd. will soon begin making a range of wood-replacement products that will help save trees and CO2 emissions. The company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow Chemical Canada Inc., announced recently that it would begin making products that will provide an alternative to traditional wood based products.
Clerics pitch for green Lucknow
While the world debates over the Taliban brand of Islam, Muslim clerics in Lucknow have taken the lead in planting saplings of "Quranic trees" to project a hitherto unknown face of Islam : its recognition of environment conservation.
Spy in the sky to protect rainforest
The Amazon, one of the world's remaining wilderness areas, is about to get a long-awaited aerial monitoring system to help protect the Brazilian rainforest against illegal exploitation. In the next few months the $1.3bn (
WB aid for afforestation to cover degraded forest land
Andhra Pradesh State Chief conservator of forests K Subba Rao on Monday said about three lakh hectares of land would be covered under afforestation in the state, with an aid of Rs 700 crore from the World Bank, likely to be granted under phase two programme.
Anti-forest encroachment drives in far-west force migrants back to hills
Forest authorities have succeeded in evicting more than 70,000 illegal settlers from the green forests and wetlands of this fertile Terai district, but the possibility of the hill migrants moving to neighboring districts and re-occupying the pristine forest areas still remains. The authorities removed more than 1500 hill migrants occupying …
NDDB chief now rallies to the rescue of forests
Ringing the alarm bells on ecological security once again was Amrita Patel, chairman, National Dairy Development Board. "The re-forested uplands should be declared inviolate and designated National Forests and placed in charge of the Centre," she said. In her view the most effective approach to secure ecological foundations of the …
2.6 lakh teak plants for Sircilla farmers
Keeping in view the scanty rainfall in the district this year, the Forest department of Andhra Pradesh, on an experimental basis, has decided to distribute 2.6 lakh teak saplings to the farmers of the upland Sircilla division. As part of the programme, the department is organising a teak saplings mela …
Haryana to plant 4.5 crore saplings
In order to make Haryana pollution free and greener the state government had chalked out a plan to plant 4.5 crore saplings during the next financial year. As many as 2.5 crore saplings were planted this year.
