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 Forest Department has successfully produced English willow in several parts of the Punjab (Pakistan), a spokesman for the department said on Thursday. Addressing sports goods manufacturers at Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry here, Syed Ajmal Rahim, the Gujranwala circle divisional forest officer, said the department had developed 80,000 …
An Idaho federal judge has halted one of President Clinton's boldest environmental protections which prevents development of 'roadless' areas of forest, totalling a third of the US total.
As regards loss of forest covers between the years 1997-1999, Assam has achieved the distinction of being second in the country, Mizoram being the first in this respect, losing 437 sq km as against Assam's 136 sq km.
The director general, Geological Survey of India (GSI) Ravi Shanker said that all the dams on Narmada river despite falling under seismic belt are perfectly safe. He also rubbishes the claims of anti-dam environmentalists and activists that large dams cause earthquakes.
Polls over, thirsty Darjeeling is now looking at the "New Left" to fulfil its election promose of adequate water supply. Residents, reeling under an acute water shortage, hope the government will clear the Rs 40-crore Balason project to augment supplies.
Prominent environmentalist and President of the Himachal Bachao Samiti, Mr Kulbhushan Upmanyu, has demanded a complete ban on planting of pine.In a statement issued today, he said for the past 100 years pine plantation had been done and the plantation of trees providing fodder, fuel, fruit, herbs and manure to …
In a political move that could have serious economic ramifications, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh announced that he would call Chief Ministers' meeting to review the rules and guidelines that govern the implementation of the Indian Forest Act (1927) Chief Ministers of states with 15 per cent or more …
Environmentalists in Delhi have an issue at hand. While the capital's forest cover is just around a minuscule six per cent, as against the 33 per cent stipulated in the National Forest Policy, the state environment department has been consistently reporting savings of around 15 to 20 per cent of …
The war of attrition between the top two officials of the state forest department is out in the open with Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) D P S Verma submitting a report this week to Gujarat government indicting Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife) G A Patel for allowing illegal …
Water is too serious an issue to be left solely to the government, hence water must become everybody's business, and for that water movement at the grassroots is a must, says a book released in Kathmandu. The book-Making Water Everybody's Business: Practice and Policy of Water Harvesting-also asserts that where …
Destruction of Brazil's Amazon rain forest jumped last year to the highest levels since 1995, prompting the government yesterday to pledge new controls to reduce deforestation.
Concrete structures are gradually devouring the lush green cover of hillocks near Anu, about 3 km from Hamirpur. Hundreds of full-grown pine trees have been chopped off for the construction of the campus of Regional Engineering College, Hamirpur, since it was established. Thousands more are likely to be axed as …
After people who hacked at trees and swept clear the green cover of Himachal hills, microbes have now taken over. Bacterias and insects and various fungi are eating up kail, blue pine and deodar trees in the state. The Forest Department, however, appears to be blissfully unaware.
INDIA might be the software superpower but its remote villages still remain caught in a time warp where the effects of modernistion have not yet filtered down. Even after 54 years of independence, the rhetoric of development and conservation rings hollow without the people's participation in development schemes. Here in …
A frieze of landscape in black and white. Low hillocks, meandering streams, misty waterfalls and thick foliage. Rays of diffused sunlight filter through the canopy, white clouds nestle among jagged peaks, green dunes stretch across huge acres, low grasslands, high precipice, barren rocks and sheer drops. All this and much …
a weed called mimosa is destroying the grasslands of Assam's Kaziranga National Park ( knp ). The weed has covered over 120 hectares of the park's area, thereby, threatening the lives of herbivore animals that feed on the grass. Mimosa devours the existing grass cover of any area. The park …
the Union ministry of environment and forests has proposed to set up a forest development agency on the lines of district rural development authority ( drda ). Funds from the Centre for Forests and Wildlife Conservation and afforestation programmes will be provided through the agency instead of the state governments. …
at the sun sets on Tentuli, a village in Keonjhar district of Orissa, it is time to prepare for a long, sleepless night. As darkness descends, the male members of the village make sure that the children and women are tucked away in the safety of tree houses they have …
A man whirls a whip round his head and brings the lash down hard on a Kenyan youth clad in a "Save our Forests" T-Shirt.The whip cracks again and a mob starts hurling rocks at a bus-load of environmental activists from Kenya's Green Belt Movement, barring their way to a …
The destruction of trees in the Amazon's rain forest is on the rise again after a year of relative stability, officials said Monday, pointing to an improved economy as the main factor. "Economic activity implies deforestation," said Mary Allegretti, secretary for Amazon affairs for the Environmental Ministry.
