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 …
while huge concessions have been given to the umbrella group countries under the Kyoto protocol for using forests as carbon sinks to meet their targets, latest research shows that planting forests to curb global warming could backfire. Planting trees across the snow-covered swathes of Siberia and North America will heat …
the origin of malaria is associated with the beginning of cultivation thousands of years ago, confirm two recent studies. In 1958, Frank Livingstone had proposed a hypothesis that the emergence of malaria might be linked with the beginning of agriculture. According to Livingstone, the introduction of slash and burn system …
Our stock brokers can learn a few things about rising and falling prices from the Rabha tribe. Sheetin Rabha is a dynamic and wise women. Her group of 24 members decided to invest and took Rs 600 from their deposits and purchased 480 kg of rice. The price of paddy …
forests and farmlands cannot be relied on to soak up greenhouse gases, says a recent report released by the uk Royal Science Society. It says the cuts in emissions are the only long-term way to reduce global warming over long-periods. The report says too little is known of the science …
At least 63 ponds and wetlands in the Howrah town of West Bengal have been destroyed, according to a report placed before the Calcutta high court by municipal authorities. The green bench of the court had asked the Howrah Municipal Corporation for the report regarding the condition of wetlands and …
There aren't many people around in the streets of Lucknow on an early Sunday morning. But the banks of the Gomti are swarming with people. For over two years, a group of Lucknow's residents gather on Sunday to clean up the river. The group does not have a name, but …
The Mynmar government is falsifying statistics on AIDS cases to cover the fact that the disease has reached epidemic levels, alleges a us expert on AIDS. Chris Beyrer, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, says that 3.46 per cent of adults in Mynmar are …
The Himachal Pradesh is preparing a long term forest management plan to seek permission from the Centre and the Supreme Court to carry out silvicultural operations.
With the weather worsening and fatigue setting in, firefighters battled for seventh straight day to keep a forest-blaze away from upscale mountain homes. The 1,300 residents of Wilson were told on Saturday to brace for the worst as strong winds and low humidity were expected for several more days.
Experts claim that the aerial spraying of endosulfan, a pesticide, for several years in Kerala has caused a number of cases of cancer, mental retardation, epilepsy and neurological disorders in areas neighbouring the plantations.
With the completion of panchayat elections, after a gap of 23 years, the Social Forestry Project has been closed. A part of the activities of the project is being given to the newly elected panchayats in Jammu and Kashmir.
To achieve sustainable improvement in the city environment, the government of Netherlands is funding Rs 159 crore for a five-year period (2000-2004) under the 'green Hyderabad project' (GHP), chairman of Hyderabad urban development authority (Huda) T Krishna Reddy has disclosed. Huda had planted 55 lakh seedlings and generated employment to …
The Tamil Nadu State Forest Department has handed over saplings under the Union Pollution Control Board-funded 'Greenbelt abetment programme for pollution' to the Chennai Corporation. The civic body will plant the remaining 35,000 saplings. The department took up the programme last year, proposing to plant 1.30 lakh saplings in the …
Worried at the depleting forest resources, the Government of Bangladesh has taken up a massive afforestation programme in the three hill districts. Under the programme, some 2.50 lakh different species of sapling will be planted on 25000 acres of land in the districts with financial assistance from the European Commission
The Empowered Committees appointed for Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh on a Supreme Court directive have begun the process for disposing of the interlocutory applications with regard to the working of forests in the two neighbouring States. The president of National Committee for Protection of Natural Resources (NCPNR), Mr. S. R. …
The proposal for the second phase of the Tamil Nadu Afforestation (TAP-II) project has been prepared by the Forest Department and is currently with the State Government. Once the State Government approves the proposal it will be forwarded to the Central Government for getting support from a bilateral or multilateral …
West Bengal will not allow deep tubewells in the city of Kolkata in future because of sharp fall in water level, Mr Ashok Bhattacharya, state minister for Municipal Affairs and Urban Development, said in the Assembly.
The Japanese funding agency is happy with the implementation of the first phase of Tamil Nadu Afforestation Programme (TAP) and has conveyed its willingness to extend financial assistance for the second phase also. According to senior officials, under the first phase, spread over five years, the Forest department adopted 200 …
The Gujarat High Court has issued notices to chief secretary, additional chief secretary, forests and environment, and the range forest oficer, Vadodara range, in a public interest litigation filed against illicit felling and smuggling of Kher trees from forest and non-forest areas of south Gujarat
The rich natural resources, particularly the exquisite flora and fauna of Assam harboured in the unique rainforests of the upper recess of Brahmaputra valley are shrinking and on the verge of extinction today owing to increasing population pressure, industrialization and rapidly expanding commerical plantation areas, according press release of Nature's …
