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 has released Rs 5.5 crores for solving the disputes of land and marking it between the revenue and the forest land. The dispute of marking the forest area and revenue area has not yet been solved in as much as 39 districts of the state.
A new study disputes a recent UN assessment which claimed that there has been a 20% drop in the rate of deforestation since 1995. According to international NGO, the World Resources Institute (WRI), deforestation rates have increased in tropical Africa, remained constant in Central America, and declined only slightly in …
The Environment Ministry in Costa Rica March 9 gave its final stamp of approval to its new forestry plan, intensifying the firestorm of controversy that had broken out just days earlier, after the government confiscated the trunks of more than 260 trees that had allegedly been illegally cut on the …
Opposition MPs accused the Green-supported New Zealand government yesterday of using timber from endangered African rainforests in a NZ$40 million ($17 million) refurbishment of its own offices. Pouncing on the government's apparent inconsistency, they noted that the centre-left Labour/Alliance minority coalition had banned logging of New Zealand's own forests. Parliament …
A Kenyan High Court on Thursday granted local environmentalists an injunction to prevent authorities allowing forests to be cleared, a television station reported. "The forests that were to be degazetted and allocated to squatters...will remain state property until a case filed against the minister for environment, Francis Nyenze, is heard …
Private forest owners are increasingly being distracted by the double standards of the Nepal government which, on the one hand has its policy of encouraging public participation in the plantation of trees, but on the other hand, is also taxing them illegally.
There are reports of fires in the alpine grasslands of Uttaranchal. The official version is that these fires are the usual controlled burning done by the forest department in the hills to prevent the outbreak of a major fire during the dry months. "This time it has been a dry …
The Brazilian Ministry of Mines and Energy was occupied this morning by 1,500 people who came from all across the country to protest the negative effects of large dams. "These men, women, and children are here to demand a halt to new dam construction until already existing problems caused by …
Hundreds of members of community forest users' groups from across Nepal marched through the streets of Kathmandu protesting the government's decision to forward a Bill proposing to amend the Forest Act 1997. The rally, which was organised to protest against the Bill which the government intends to bring during the …
There's a simple acronym that explains these miracles in forestry: JFM. The mantra of Joint Forest Management has captured the imagination of a generation of planners, bureaucrats and non-governmental and has led to a considerable expansion of green cover. The examples were cited at a recent conference of foresters held …
As tribal Miro Jhumia families were tearing down the hill forest to bring more land under jhum cultivation, a tense situation has been prevailing among the local forest officials and the families, reports UNB. This year some 16, 672 acres of land has been targeted to bring under Jhum cultivation …
"Over 3000 acres of forest have been denuded (in Gudalur area) in the recent past despite the specific orders of the Supreme Court", alleged the Tamil Nadu Forest Staff Association, Gudalur Chapter.
Gujarat Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel has claimed the Narmada waters will start flowing in the parched regions of Saurashtra, Ahmedabad and Vadodara from mid-March through the Pariyej-Kanewal Saurashtra pipeline.
The Amir of Jamaat-i-Islami, Rawalpindi district, Dr Mohammad Kamal, said in Rawalpindi on Wednesday that there was no justification for the raise in the price of CNG. He expressed his surprise over the statement of Petroleum Secretary Yousaf Abdullah that the Pakistan government had not issued any notification for the …
It is a global tender, but the kind of qualification requirements prescribed practically cut out the entire world-that is, the entire world except one company. The tender, floated by the Delhi Transport Corporation is for conversion of about 1,000 diesel run buses to the CNG mode. The tender is being …
Coordinated action to address the issue of forest fires in different parts of the world is the main topic being discussed at a three-day meeting of international experts on forest fire management and control at the Rome headquarters of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization this week.
FAO's intergovernmental Committee on Fisheries has decided to set up a new Sub-Committee on Aquaculture to deal with important emerging issues connected with this important food-producing activity, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation said.
The Victorian National Party has joined sawmillers and conservationists in calling on the State Government to come clean on the extent of overlogging in the state's native forests. National Party resources spokesman Peter Hall said it was common knowledge in the timber industry that the Department of Natural Resources and …
Community forest user groups across Nepal are up in arms against the government's move to push a bill to amend the Forest Act 1997, saying that the bill is aimed at snatching away the existing rights of the communities over their forest products.
The high level committees formed recently to investigate into the shady timber deals in the eastern and western parts of Nepal appear to have begun their works.
