Century Pulp and Paper Mill
Century Pulp and Paper (cpp), located along the New Delhi-Nainital national highway in Nainital district, Uttar Pradesh, is a wood-based paper and pulp mill. It produces rayon grade pulp (rgp), used mostly by the textile industry, and writing and printing paper (wpp). The company got two leaves and was ranked …
SC warbs states against denotifying forest reserves
In the wake of Madhya Pradesh government's controversial decision to denotify parts of its reserve forests, the Supreme Court on Monday directed all state governments and Union territories not to denotify any area inside 526 national parks and sanctuaries till further orders.
Dam over Narmada
Though work on the Sardar Sarovar Project on the Narmada has resumed after nearly fiver years, potential hurdles to the completion of the dam still remain. It is now clear that Medha Patkar and the Narmada Bachao Andolan will continue with their protests despite the Supreme Court rejecting their petition …
Saving the forest for the trees
A Brazilian company,Gethal Amazonas on Oct. 19 became the first tropical plywood maker in the world to be fully certified by a nonprofit organization called the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). Founded in 1993, the FSC's goal is nothing less than converting the world's timber companies to a new creed to …
Railways on de-greening spree
The Ambala Division of the Northern Railway has resorted to the "wanton destruction of green cover at some of its railway stations, yards and even Divisonal Office in Ambala" on the pretext of "mobilising financial resources".Hundreds of full-grown trees, incliding an entire avenue of mango trees on Railway Road here, …
Nod to phase II of afforestation project
Approval has been given for the implementation of the second phase of the Rs 169-crore German Government-aided project and the Rs 30 crore World Bank-aided Changar progect in order to achieve the afforestation target in Himachal Pradesh. Besides, efforts are being made to cover the entire state under the special …
Plant transplants will not root out problem, say greens
The municipal corporation's decision to transplant the two century-old rain trees on Veer Savarkar Marg at a cost of Rs 40 to Rs 45 lakhs has come in for flak from citizens' organisations and tree lovers who say that it would be far more logical and cheaper to let the …
GNIDA sells forest land as residential plots
If the Capital has begun showing a self-defeating disrespect for greenery, Greater Noida is emerging as a promising disciple. It's official now. The Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority has grabbed 41,544 square metres of reserved forest land, developed it and sold it as residential plots.
Forest cover under threat
The forest cover of Uttaranchal faces danger from the officials meant to protect it.On the last day of the last session of the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha, an amendment was brought about in the UP forest bill which increased the powers of the bureaucracy.
MP no longer "forest state"
With the formation of the new Chhattisgarh state, Madhya Pradesh has ceased to be the "forest state" that it has hitherto been. Madhya Pradesh had 1,54,500 sq km of forests and the Chhattisgarh region accounted for 59,200 sq km of the total forest land of undivided Madhya Pradesh.
Karanataka to convene all-party meet on SC verdict
The Karnataka government will convene an all-party meeting in the next few days to discuss the situation arising out of the apex court's verdict against the release of the 51 Tada detainees. The latter are lodged in Mysore jail.
Veerappan issue
TMC gives notice for adjournment motion: The kidnap crisis involving the Kannada actor, Mr. Rajkumar, triggered by forest brigand Veerappan is likely to have its echo in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly, with the main Opposition, TMC submitted to the Speaker, a notice of an adjournment motion today on the …
Power to divert forest land
The Maharashtra state government in a bid to control forest land, has demanded the power to divert forest land for non-forestry, commercial purposes be shifted from the Centre to the state under the Forest Conservation Act, 1980.The reasoning it has put forth is that the clearance for development projects at …
UK may fund 2nd phase of project
The government of the Unitekd Kingdom may agree to fund the second phase of the Indo-UK Forestry Project in the state, despite a change in its policy to shift focus from development schemes to poverty alleviation. The state had given up hope for securing funds for the Rs 75 crore …
Balh valley to have development block
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said today that the Bhakra and Beas Management Board had agreed to give additional 14.75 cusec of water for the second phase of the Balh valley Irrigation project in response to the request by the state government.
It's more than just a tale of two trees
When Sunderlal Bahuguna and his followers in the Himalayan foothills hugged pine trees to protect them from the timber mafia's axe on one could have imagined that the Chipko movement would reincarnate itself 30 years later in Mumbai. The spirited campaign by the Friends of Trees (FoT) and some residents …
Hazardous waste illegally brought into city
The Mumbai customs is in posseession of more than 160 containers of hazardous wastes that were illegally exported to India by traders in West Asia, Greenpeace and Basel Action Network activists alleged.
Kashmir's stately chinars face tha axe
Jahangir's vision of paradise would have been incomplete without the grand chinar trees, a rare speciment of maple that grows in the Kashmir valley. The chinar, after alll, symbolises the beauty of Kashmir. But 11 years of violence has taken its toll on these precious trees. "Cutting these trees is …
Firewood supply decreasing each year
The hardwood supply in Thimphu (Bhutan) has hit rock-bottom.The data collected by the Thimphu Territorial Division shows the supply dropping drastically every year in the last four years or so.
