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 …
A massive project for using the surface water in irrigation purposes in crop lands in the Barindra areas comprising 25 upazilas of Bangladesh has been created by constructing cross dams.
After the formation of Uttarakhand State only 7.52 percent reserve forest area is left with the Forest Department of Uttar Pradesh. The new Conservator of Forest of the area stressed upon the conservation of available forest area coupled with plantation on a war footing on unused and barren land.
Sandalwood thieves struck in the grounds of Aranya Bhavan, the headquarters of the forest department early on Wednesday morning. The campus watchman however alerted the police who managed to catch one of the thieves, recover the sandal billets and foil the attempt.
The Public Accounts' Committee (PAC) of the Karnataka State legislature has taken to task the forest department officers for not initiating steps to far to recover land rent dues to the tune of Rs 1.75 crore from the farmers who were allotted 87,000 acres of forest land in 1967, on …
The new Conservation of Forest, Meerut, has stressed on the conservation of the available forest area coupled with massive plantation on the unused and barren lands.
A water pricing authority, division of the state into water zones and the metering of water supplied to farmers and domestic users, besides new laws for regulation and control of water resources, are among the salient features of a proposed Gujarat State Water Policy.The draft document prepared by the Narmada …
A mutual understanding among the five nations of this region can generate 30 thousand mega watt of electricity from a waterfall located between Arunachal province of India and eastern Tibet in China. The ambitious project, which needs 40 billion US dollars and a strong political will among India, China, Bangladesh, …
This century will see a drastic decline in the world's forests and as such in its environmental health-especially in the developing countries-if the current rate of destruction is not reversed at once.This is the gloomy forecast of a new World Resources Institute (WRI) report entitled 'Pilot Analysis of Global Ecosystems …
Finish forestry group UPM Kymmene would be ready to sell its almost 800,000 hectares of Finnish forest land if a suitable buyer could be found, its chief executive said yesterday. CEO Juha Niemela said the firm generally aimed to free up capital from areas with lower-than-average returns, but said UPM …
The plan to construct the second phase of the Killar (800 kw) in the tribal area of Pangi has been dropped by the Himachal Pradesh government because of uneconomic cost of generation from the project.
Dilip Kumar and Laxman sit the entire day before the sealed shutter of the nickel-plating unit in Trinagar, Delhi, where they used to work. The unit is now sealed. Dilip says, "We sit here hoping the Supreme Court will reopen our unit someday. The owners say that these few days …
global warming over the next century could turn out to be much worse than previously estimated, says the latest report of the uk Met Office's Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research. Even if greenhouse gas ( ghg ) emissions are stabilised (which would require an overnight cut of 60-70 …
The effects of aerosols in the atmosphere will magnify the warming over several developing countries, shows a study by the Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX), an international field experiment which is being conducted by several countries including USA, Australia, France and Germany. "Aerosols have a heating effect on the atmosphere of …
From the Chief Minister of Andhra pradesh to a block development officer touring the parched fields of Madhya Pradesh.Shrugged off as mission Impossible by the Planning Commission for the last four years, the states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradeshg, Gujarat and Rajasthan are now gingerly taking the first steps …
About 58000 hectares of reserved forest land in north Assam has been encroached by Arunachal Pradesh on the one hand and by local people on the other. Though north Assam has been enriched naturally by 28 reserved forest areas existence of many of which have remained on hoardings only.
Former Chief Minister M Veerappan Moily today called for an yearly appraisal and continuous analysis of the joint forest management to ensure its effective implementation.
In the past 30 years, as development pressures increased, scores of California cities and counties from Thousand Oaks in the south to Santa Rosa in the north have passed ordinances protecting not only various species and sizes of oaks, but also sycamores, walnuts, eucalyptus and other trees with a zeal …
The Forest department will complete planting of about 35,000 saplings under the Greenbelt Abatement Programme, funded by the Union Pollution Control Board, in Chennai.The programme was abruptly closed on March 31 this year and the department handed over 95,000 saplings to the Chennai Corporation.
The Brazilian authorities denounced Peruvian loggers for invading one of the country's frontier Indian reservations and warned that the situation in the region could deteriorate into violence.
