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 …
- Four major forestry firms and a coalition of environmental groups agreed on Friday on a temporary ceasefire in their long-running battle over Canada's west coast rainforest as they jointly develop a proposal for managing the region. The two sides said the goal is to develop a "a conservation-based ecosystem …
About ten acres of forest land in Rajokri has been sold off in the last couple of years by land mafia by transferring the occupation of the land through a single revenue stamp attested document. The process started a few years ago when the labourers staying in the houses, constructed …
The Indonesian government is to suspend the operations of 12 palm oil and plantation companies for allegedly starting forest fires that have spread a smoky haze across neighbouring Malaysia and Singapore, officials said.
The Madhya Pradesh government is planning to formulate small-scale forest produce (Laghu Vanopai) policy. The policy, sources say, will be aimed at protecting the interest of the tribals and those who collect forest produce at small rate.
A summer of unusually arid weather has turned much of America's Western wilderness into a tinderbox, with fires raging in a dozen states, including a 44,000-acre blaze in the Idaho backcountry and a fire in Colorado on one of the country's richest archaeological preserves.
Indonesia will soon order 12 plantation firms on Sumatra to stop operating after accusations they started forest fires which spread smog to parts of Southeast Asia, a government official said yesterday. "We will soon order 12 plantation firms in North Sumatra and Riau to halt operations because they are believed …
LGED has been implementing "Small Scale Water Resources Development Sector Project" in the western part of Bangladesh covering 37 districts. An important aspect of the project is to ensure participation of the beneficiaries through formation of Water Management Cooperative Association (WMCAs) in each Sub project.
Timber tycoons are facing a gloomy future in Indonesia. The government has blamed them for massive destruction of forest land, and will not extend any expired forest concessions. The new policy is an attempt to tighten control over logging activities and reduce log production, but is widely see as being …
Distressed over the death of a large number of trees in Delhi, the Horticulture Department of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi proposes to constitute a special cell to tackle this man-made crisis. Comprising qualified staffers, the cell will have legal powers for pruning and preservation of trees, particularly those showing …
The Orissa forest minister, Mr. A.P. Singh, today said a massive plantation programme, estimated at Rs.70 crore, would be taken up in the state over the next seven years.
Indonesian authorities temporarily closed the key airport in the northern city of Medan on Thursday becaue thick smong triggered by raging fires on Sumatra island had reduced visibility.
Forest fires raging in Indonesia's Sumatra are spreading to other parts of the island, as environmentalists accuse the Government of being to scared to crack down on plantations allegedly behind the blazes.
The Forest Department got registered three separate FIRs against 17 landlords at various police stations of Dadu district in Pakistan on Tuesday for illegally occupying hundreds acres of forest land of Rajari forest, Unarpur forest, Budhapur forest and Kundi forest.
Smog caused by Indonesian forest fires shrouded hald neighbouring Malaysia on Sunday, sparking fears of a re-run of the 1997 crisis. The smog has cut visibility in some areas to 1 km from the normal 8-10 km, officials said.
In an effort to let logging equipment into the Mount Hood National Forest, the U.S. Forest Service used armed officials to move protesters out of their tree homes and is maintaining a 24-hour watch to keep activists from returning.The 1,030 acres included in the Eagle Creek timber sales have renewed …
The detection of excess timber worth over RS 10 lakh at the Rampur depot of the state Forest Corporation recently has once again highlighted the failure of the government to streamline the functioning of the public sector undertaking which has virtually being used as a front by contractors to "plunder" …
Software Technology Group International Ltd(STG) has completed a World Bank-funded project - Indian Forestry Research Inforamtion System(IFRIS) - on behalf of the Indian Council for Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE), Dehra Dun.
Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), the oldest and premier organization of India has appealed to the Chief Minister of Assam, Mr Prafulla Kumar Mahanta , to declare Joypur Reserved Forest (RF), Dirak RF and Upper Dihing RF of Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts as wildlife sanctuaries, stated a press release.
Recent findings show that Africa is home not to one, as was common knowledge, but two species of elephants. For many years, some zoologists have suspected that this might be the case, as African elephants tend to be stockier than the savannah elephants and also have straighter tusks and rounder …
