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 Madhya Pradesh government is organizing a national workshop on April 4 and 5 here on alternative medicines in which experts from all over the country in the field of plants and herbs will participate. The workshop will be inaugurated by the State Forest Minister Harvansh Singh, A press release …
Chief Minster Digvijay Singh reviewed the tense situation leading to death of two persons at village Mehandikheda in Dewas district, at a high level meeting at mantralaya on Tuesday. A magisterial inquiry has already been ordered into the incident. Digvijay Singh has directed to seek public confidence in protection of …
The Forest flying squads would be strengthened to contain podu cultivation and illegal transport of forest produce, said Forest Minister Ch Ayyanna Patrudu.
What can happen through decades of looting of our forest wealth is now glaringly evident from the extent of forest cover that Assam is left with. The forest cover of Assam has shrunk to a mete 21 per cent of the State's total geographical area, as against the national average …
Six people were killed, eleven injured seriously in police firing in Bagli tehsil of Dewas district on Monday morning. According to reports for the last five days there was a clash between police and tribals in the area on the issue of felling of trees. The tribals were staging chakkajam …
An ambitious social forestry-cum-economic regeneration project aimed at quelling extremism in the militancy-ravaged Palamau district of Jharkhand has come a cropper.
With the Supreme Court firm on not allowing silvicultural fellings without approved forest working plans, the state Forest Department has decided to use modern techniques like digital cartography and satellite imageries to prepare the working plans expeditiously.
A large area of Assam's forest land has been totally destroyed by unscrupulous elements and encroachers over the years resulting the shrinking of forest land to just 21 per cent of the State's total geographical area, as against the all India average of 33.3 per cent.
Past experiences have shown that centralized management of natural resources, based on a culture of exclusion and rules, has not contributed to the sustainable management of natural resources. This important realization has led to a series of policy changes in the recent past that provides an ever-widening democratic space to …
Despite the ban imposed by the Supreme Court on felling of trees and transportation of timber from north-eastern region to other states, illegal felling of trees and smuggling of timber continues unabated right under the nose of the concerned authority.
What message are you sending by slapping an eight per cent duty on a clean fuel like the compressed natural gas (CNG)? Will it not jolt to the nascent CNG market, when the tax generated will amount to a mere Rs 6 crore? Won't it also jeopardise the Supreme Court's …
smoggy air damages plants, causes leaf injury, adversely affects plant growth and reduces fruit yield. Air pollutants such as sulphur, fluorides, ozone affect forest ecosystems adversely. This book brings out 30-35 years of research experience of around 30 scientists who have studied the effect of pollutants on plant life. The …
The Janglat Workers Union, Punjab, has demanded a high-level probe into a Rs 406-crore project sponsored by Japan and approved by the Forest Department in 1997 to make Punjab green. The projects was to be implemented within seven years beginning from 1998.
When officials of the forest department recently raided Karanja village, near Kasa, to confiscate illegally felled wood, they were pelted with stones. They opened fire for cover, but ended up injuring a villager in the process. Such clashes have become the norm in Thane district, where smuggling of wood from …
The NWFP government in Pakistan has decided to levy development surcharge on cutting down of trees in the public and private sector forests, official sources told Dawn on Thursday. The new levy labelled "forest development surcharge" is likely to be introduced as soon as the draft notification is vetted by …
Forest fires are raging in the Garhwal Himalayas threatening an environmental disaster that could destroy the region's ecological balance. The forest department is in a fix as it does not have the resources to launch fire-fighting operations on such a large scale.
There would be no timber left for industrial use for 40 years after 2025 when 75 per cent of the forested area in the NWFP (Pakistan) would vanish, reveals the Provincial Forest Resource Inventory (PFRI) - the forest department's well- kept secret. The PFRI, conducted by a German consortium, reveals …
Pianma 2,400 kilometers southwest of Beijing on the far edge of Yunnan Province, is one of China' s gateways into the forests of northern Burma, where for the last several years a massive, unregulated and largely unnoticed timber trade has stripped bare hundreds of square kilometres of ancient tropical forests.
Forest Service chief Mike Dombeck, a proponent of a sweeping land-use plan the Bush administration may now be trying to undo, announced Tuesday he is stepping down. Dombeck could have stayed until the end of April, longer if asked. Instead, he told his boss, Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, he was …
