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 creation of the hill state Uttaranchal has left the parent state with least areas under forest cover, percentage wise.It would be even less than the green cover area of national capital Delhi, which has 2.8 per cent area under the forest cover.
The DDA bulldozed nearly a dozen squatters huts from a forest in Saket. More than 5.5 acres of forest had been encroached by villages from Hauz Rani. They reared buffaloes, goats and poultry, selling the produce to nearby DDA colonies.
HC restrains Forest Dept: The Kerala High Court has restrained the Forst Department from destroying trees and other vegetation in the 410-hectares Shola forest at Melthottam in Agali range and from conducting any non-forest operation in the area.
More than six years after the Delhi Tree Preservation Act came into existence, not one person has been convicted. The Act provides for a fine and imprisonment up to six months.
Nearly 400 fully grown eucalyptus trees on a private plot have been chopped down in the Bakhauli village of northwest Delhi over the last fortnight. The owner of the plot is said to be missing and most of the wood has been carted away. The operation is suspected to have …
The shocking incident of the felling of over 400 trees is said to be unprecedented in Delhi. In fact, forest officers say this is perhaps the largest number of trees that have been illegally felled since the Delhi Tree Preservation Act was enforced in 1994.
The Supreme Court reserved its judgement on the legality of withdrawal of TADA cases against forest brigand Veerappan and his associates in exchange for securing freedom of abducted Kannada actor Rajkumar, but indicated that the Karnataka government's decision was not sustainable law.
Madhya Pradesh government, in a detailed report on Chhattisgarh, has advised the new state to issue seprate orders for ban on transportation of timber in pursuance of the Supreme Court verdict.
Japan will create a database covering 1.75 million species of plants and animals in Japan and 11 other Asian countries, Environment Agency officials said Monday.The National Institute for Environment Studies hopes to launch a computer network by 2005 to share information on genes, habitats, populations and photos.
Just steps away from a splashing creek, the compact hydropower plant in Stephen F. Formel's backyard was supposed to teach his six children to think creatively about energy. Instead, he said, it became a lesson in red tape.Mr. Formel must connect his hydropowered generator to the local utility, New York …
The Supreme Court declined to fix an early date for the hearing of an application by the Narmada Bachao Andolan seeking certain clarifications on its recent judgement permitting raising of the height of the Sardar Sarovar Dam up to 90 metres.
Uttar Pradesh would loss two-thirds of its forest area to the newly carved out Uttaranchal State resulting in a net revenue loss of Rs 100 crores.Once endowed with vast forest wealth, the undivided Uttar Pradesh had 5,161,859 square km of forest area but it will now have to be content …
It has been a rather long wait for Aravallis, one of the oldest hill systems in the world, situated in north western India for funds from Japan. Since the completion of the OECF (Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund) -assisted Aravalli Afforestation Project in 1997-98, Rajasthan has been awaiting sanction for the …
a 500 square kilometre stretch of rain forest has been discovered in Assam. The discovery was made by Saumyadeep Dutta, an environmentalist. This was reported in The Times of India. According to Dutta, the forest which spills into Arunachal Pradesh, houses 32 species of mammals and 260 species of birds, …
The proposal of a German organisation to plant trees in Argentina is facing large-scale opposition from the country's environmentalist.Prima Klima, a non-governmental organisation, is planning to undertake a tree planting project covering an area of 125,000 hectares in the province of Chubut located in the Argentine part of Patagonia. The …
To save the rainforests of Assam, Nature's Beckon has launched a project for the Conservation of The Rainforest of the Brahmaputra Valley. The project aims at multilateral levels for the conservation of the resourceful rainforests of the proposed Joydihing Wildlife Sanctuary; to promote the conservation and sustainable management of the …
Enrique Penalosa is asking voters to approve a city-wide ban on private vehicles in peak hours in Colombia's capital. For hundreds of thousands of Bogota residents - authorities estimate 1m-plus - Sundays normally mean a bike ride on some of the 100km of roads temporarily closed to vehicle traffic, in …
A forest policy is in the offing in Jammu & Kashmir to off-set damage caused to the green wealth during the last ten years of turnmoil. An official spokesman said the Government had accorded top priority to afforestation in the state as a large portion of the forests had been …
Northern grassroots groups in Thailand yesterday demanded the scrapping of four forestry-related laws which do not recognise community rights in natural resources management.The Forestry Act of 1941, National Park Act of 1960, Forest Reserves Act of 1964 and Wildlife Protection Act of 1992 are unconstitutional, they said.
The Kerala Assembly has decided to take lead in initiating a mass social forestry programme in the state, with the participation of the local bodies.Announcing this in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday, the Speaker, M. Vijayakumar said the programme, known as Haritha Keralam - Niyamasaha - 2000'(Green Kerala Assembly 2000) would be …
