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 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) presented a special report on the impact of land use, land use change and forests (LULUCF), which focuses on the complex issue of linking climate change with forestation, at a meeting of subsidiary bodies of the un Frame Convention on Climate Convention in …
India's forests have been a site of conflict for centuries. But it is only over the last decade that their history has become the subject of serious enquiry. The first wave of work focussed on the struggle put up by resistance movements against imperial and post-independence power structures from the …
The state of the Aravallis seems to be what it was nearly eight years ago - denuded and barren - notwithstanding a liberal Japanese assistance for a massive afforestation project.
Recently, the Times of London carried a map purportedly displaying the world distribution of rain forest. Even on the kindest interpretations, it was utter nonsense. The map, in short encompassed all jungly things. Moreover, the recent loss of trees is itself grossly exaggerated. New research in Brazil suggests that around …
Europe's forest area is expanding by 500,00o hectares a year and only 60 per cent of annual timber growth is harvested, according to an exhaustive United Nations report on temperate forest resources. the report, compiled by the UN Economic Commission for Europe and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, covers …
Scientists have extracted samples of Earth's atmosphere trapped in rocks millions of years old. It is a technique that could provide new data about past climate upheavals and mass extinctions. Until now, the oldest samples of "fossil air" have come from ice cores from the central Greenland ice cap. They …
U.S. Forest Service firefighters ignited timber piles in the Lincoln National Forest in the first controlled burn on federal land in New Mexico since the devastating Cerro Grande Fire.With humidity at 50 percent and lush green grass surrounding the mounds of timber, the real threat Tuesday was that the piles …
The Greek Government decided on Monday after an emergency Cabinet meeting to call in the army to help battle the more than 120 wildfires blazing out of control across the country.
Ex-servicemen are being oped into an ambitious project to green the mines around south Delhi, check the degradation and build a sanctuary near the Bhatti and Jasola mines.
Continuous pilferage of shal trees in the government reserved Mymensingh district is being threatened by denundation. According to a source of Forest Department there are 38,701 acres of forest land different areas of Mymensingh district of Bangladesh.
The saviour of forest : Children at Amalekhgunj Village Development Committee (VDC) not only go to school but also keep surveillance of the forest protected by their parents-the local users' groups. The real guards or Rana Kumari Community Forest fo Amalekhgunj VDC (Nepal) are the school children. They do not …
The official emissary and Nakkheeran editor, Mr RR Gopal returned emtpy handed to report that Veerapan would release Rajkumar and his other hostages only after 121 detainees and five others held in Tamil Nadu were freed.
As part of its steps to face the current water scarcity position in the city, the Chennai Metrowater has decided to popularise the concept of rainwater harvesting (RWH) in a big way, to make the most of brief rain spells.
The Rainbow Warrior, the vessel on which Greenpeace activists sail the Pacific to wage war against environmental threats, has found a fertile new battleground in the waters between Russia and Japan. On Tuesday, the Rainbow Warrior tried to stop a Russian ship carrying timber to Japan that Greenpeace says was …
The Union and state governments should adopt a set of management tools formulated to assess the health of a forest. This was the call from a two-day workshop on national-level criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management in India which ended at New Delhi on Wednesday. A task force formed …
India may not be able to keep 33 per cent of its land under forest cover without help from foreign donors - many of whom are yet to make up their minds on extending monetary support following the country's stand on CTBT.
Satellite pictures of Tamil Nadu show that the forest cover in the State has increased by 0.8 per cent since the beginning of the watershed development programme, according to the State Minister for Environment, Mr. Pongalur N. Palanisamy.
Chinese scientists have released the country's first ozone exploration balloon on the northern slope of Mount Everest to detect the ozone density around the Qinghai-Tibet plateau in summer.
The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry passed a resolution yesterday to create a "national tree fund" and establish a National Commission to co-ordinate the activities of agencies involved in sustainbale development strategies.
The School of Environmental management of Indraprastha University , in collaboration with the environment department of Delhi goverment, will prepare an action plan for sustainable development and management of the Delhi Ridge forest.
