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 drop in tourist arrivals and in agricultural production due to the haze caused by forest fires three years ago has cost Malaysia nearly 800 million ringgit ($210.5 million), Parliament was told.
The Madhya Pradesh Government has decided to give facilities of Revenue villages to the Forest Villages in the state and hence the tax imposed for the development of forests has been opposed it, saying that the department should put effective check on its corruption, the minister maintained that it would …
Banke (Nepal) District Forest Office has handed over 368.4 hectares of forests to the five forest users' committees under the environment and forest entrepreneurs program in the Fiscal Year 2057/58.
The Orissa Forest Mazdoor Union has urged the state government to start bamboo cutting operation in the state immediately failing which over 60,000 bamboo cutter families will be forced to starve or migrate from the state.
The Orissa Government has provided Rs 30 crore for provision of drinking water in rural areas in the first supplementary budget for the current financial year placed in the state assembly.
Tribespeople are demanding the review of an order which puts parts of six villages in a new forest park.They say the boundaries of Thung Buatong forest park in Thailand, declared in October last year, overlap their farms.One protester said about 500 rai in his village was declared part of the …
One former director general ( dg ) is accused of misusing funds by R S Pundir, president of fri workers union. Funds were spent on foreign trips for several officers who were not associated with the projects, he claims. Another dg , D N Tiwari, is blamed for claiming credit …
chlorine gas leaked from a chemical factory at Udumalpet in Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu recently. This led to at least 351 people, including 197 women and children, suffering from vomiting and eye irritation. Police officials believe that the gas leaked when the chemicals produced in the factory were being …
To meet the immediate necessities of Vana samrakshana samithis(VSS) formed under the Joint forest management (JFM), Rs 7.5 crore would be released towards advances. The funds would be spent on protection of VSS and emergency works.
The Andhra Pradesh government has permitted ITC Bhadrachalam to grow bamboos over an extent of 300 hectares in the scheduled areas of Khammam district as part of its decision to involve industries in the Joint Forest Management Programme.
Forest Depat.'s claims contested: Even as the Forest Departments claims to have achieved 50 per cent of its target in implementing 'Greenbelt pollution Abatement' programme in the city and suburbs, various organisations involved in the programme have raised "serious doubts" about the department's acheivement. Under the programme, which was launched …
Tamil Nadu and Karnataka officials today formulated a new joint strategy to apprehend elusive forest brigand Veerappan and decided to intensify search operations soon with logistic support from the Centre.
In a controversial move that is bound to lead to exploitation, the Andhra Pradesh government has decided to hand over forest lands to industries on a platter. Government officials said because of the resource crunch, industries would be roped in for wasteland development to improve the green cover and benefit …
Fourteen students and professors from Japanese universities are to take part in a three-day project to stop deforestation and soil erosion in Madagascar. The 14 will be working near Ambatondrazaka, about 150 kilometers northeast of Antananarivo. They will plant trees along Lake Alaotra, which is the largest lake in Madagascar.
In whole of the Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh, land maifa have forcibly occupied many acres of forest land and carrying on cultivation. Consequently the green and luscious forests are being converted into fields and the ecology is being disturbed.
Itacoatiara, a northern Brazilian city is setting the pace as the home of the country's first native Amazonian rainforest in Brazil to receive certification from the Forest Stewardship Council. Though not the most active area for timber extraction in the Amazon region, Itacoatiara has become the most important export outlet …
The Indonesian Government has announced that it is to allow more logging in massive tracts of rainforest to assist its devastated economy.The government, already criticised for failing to prevent the loss of the ever-diminishing rainforests, the world's second largest, made the announcement on 20 November, Southeast Asian media reported.
The State Government of Western Australia has increased its commitment to wetland conservation by nominating three sites for listing under the International Convention on Wetlands, known as the Ramsar Convention. The Western Australian Minister for the Environment, Cheryl Edwards, presented a Ramsar wetland nomination document to the Federal Environment Ministry …
Central team visits W ghats: A team of officials from the Union Environment and Forest Ministry visited the Western Ghats recently in the wake of complaints submitted by the environment group Vriksha Laksha Andolana about large scale deforestation in the region.
