'Green cover' project
A 'Green cover' project is to be implemented in Madurai by the Corporation of Madurai is association with Tamil Nadu District Forest Department.
WB report lauds forestry project success
The World Bank funded Forestry Project has been successfully executed in Madhya Pradesh. Under this project, based on the concept of Joint Forest Management (JFM), work of forest conservation and protection is being carried out by 12,000 forest committees in the State, said official sources at Bhopal quoting a World …
Plan for processing of minor forest produces
A scheme for processing of minor forest produces through self-help groups of tribal people has been launched in Bastar district. Under the scheme, envisaging expenditure of Rs 16 crore, employment opportunities would be created for the tribals in the processing, marketing and transportation of minor forest produces.
Environment 'Nobel' awards for 7
A jailed Mexican antilogging campaiger, a Russian environmental lawyer and a liberian conservaitonist who set up that country's first and only national park were among seven activists awarded top world environmental prizes yesterday. Other winners of this year's $125,000 Goldman Environmental Prizes, included in Uzbek obstetrician who has fought to …
Incentives soon for sandalwood growers
Karnataka Forest Minister K H Ranganath today informed the Legislative Council that the State government was contemplating to bring about suitable amendments to laws to encourage growing of sandal trees on private lands.
Honduran Congress seeks troops to protect forests
Honduran legislators on Tuesday urged the deployment of new army troops to protect the fragile Platano River Biosphere and other regions from illegal logging. The biosphere, a swath of forest in eastern Honduras that has been under U.N. conservation funding since 1971, has been besieged by illicit logging, burning and …
Political lobbying to force shelving of law
Powerful political lobbying is going on in the Secretariat to force the Government to shelve the proposal to introduce an ordinance for taking over 'ecologically sensitive lands' from private individuals.
Clinton protects giant redwoods
In the shadow of one of the world's oldest and largest trees, President Bill Clinton granted permanent protection this weekend to groves of California's giant sequoia redwoods, calling them "the work of the ages." Mr. Clinton signed a proclaimation establishing the Giant Sequoia National Monument, a 328,000 acre safe haven …
From pulp to profits
An environmental success story : The final chapter of a 500-year dependency on wood in Brazil was brought to a close by the realization for the sustainable management of forests was the key to future lumber supplies. In the 1960s, the first eucalyptus plantations were planted in Brazil, destined mainly …
Can technology save the rainforest?
The Amazon surveillance system (known by its Brazilian acronym SIVAM) will develop data to enable Brazilian authorities to track movements of drug traffickers, illegal gold miners and clandestine loggers in the Amazon region. But the scope of SIVAM goes way beyond the combat of lawbreakers. Its surveillance and analysis infrastructure …
New pipeline to commission groundwater
As part of its efforts to supplement the existing water supply through groundwater, the Metrowater authorities have commissioned a 18-km-long pipeline to carry groundwater exclusively.
CM's directions on checking forest fire
The Himachal Forest Minister, Mr Roop singh Thakur, today issued strict instructions to the officers of the department to keep round-the-clock vigil to prevent fire from spreading in the forests. He also appealed to the people to help the forest officers in this regard as from time immemorial it had …
Forest fires
HP gears up, takes preventive steps: With the beginning of summer, the Himachal Pradesh government has asked Forest Department officers and officials to remain vigilant and take steps to prevent forest fires. The state has also sought Rs 5 crore additional assistance from the Centre to protect the forest wealth.
Fuel trial for trucks spurs clean air bid
Heavy-duty government trucks are to be switched to cleaner fuel as Hong Kong officials take a lead in promoting cleaner air. The trucks would be tested with cleaner diesel from July as a precursor for all diesel vehicles using ultra-low-sulphur diesel, Secretary for Food and Environment Lily Yam Kwan Pui-ying …
TN mill awarded for making paper without cutting trees
This summer some school students in Tamil Nadu are doing their homework in 'eco-friendly' notebooks that were not made by cutting down trees. This has been made possible by the Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Paper Ltd (TNNPL), which experimented with alternative and renewable sources of wood pulp to avoid damage …
N.B. court rules natives can't take crown lumber
Native people from Fredericton lost another round in their tumultuous battle for treaty rights with a new court decision yesterday saying they can't take wood from crown land. New Brunswick Provincial Court Judge Denis Lordon rejected all claims that Mi'kmaq and Maliseet people have any right to cut and sell …
Centre offers 111 deep-bore tubewells to Gujarat
In the Rajkot and Kutch districts of Gujarat, there are reports of water riots. Supply of water is available only on alternate days in Rajkot town ever since Bhadar dam dried up a little over a fortnight ago.
