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 …
Wading into one of the United States' most contentious environmental debates, Vice President Al Gore has pledged to prohibit logging and road building on 43 million acres of undeveloped national forests. Mr. Gore's promise, which applies to 17.4 million hectares, goes beyond a proposal by President Bill Clinton's administration, made …
Hundreds of Adivasi farmers in Bastar district are suffering due to the state government's refusal to let them cut eucalyptus trees planed on their own private plantations at personal expense. The trees were planted five years ago at the behest of the forest department which dangled before the farmers the …
Experts: Indonesia's forests are disappearing at a rate of 4,000 hectares (9,900 acres) a day and the governemnt appears to be unable to do anything about it, experts say.
Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board (CHTDB) has started implementing rain water project to ensure supply of drinking water to the people living in the inaccessible areas of the hilly region of Bangladesh.
Most of the Naxal-prone districts are rich in tendu leaves production and now, in the peak season, when tribals are plucking tendu leaves, Naxalites have given bandh call in area sof theri influence. The action has been taken to protest the tendu patta collection policy, which they claimed is antipeople, …
The Chief Executive Officer of the district Panchayat Mr Akhilesh Argal conducted inspection of the Janpad Panchayat Baraseoni and Katangi under Rajiv Gandhi Watershed Mission. The main aim behind this mission is to encourage land conservation. Other objectives include the construction of stop dams and contour tanks so that the …
Five coastal states have been selected as thrust areas for developing mangrove forests under a dual purpose scheme to be implemented through co-operative societies, according to the Union Environment and Forest Minister, Mr. T.R. Baalu. Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Orissa, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh had been chosen for the scheme, …
The rights of self-determination in protection of the land and rain-forest are being eliminated systematically by the dominant oppressive ruling clique and government illegal logging, massive destruction of green vegetation/forest products and pollution caused by industry/factories and other factors being harmful to entire eco-system , have not only escalated the …
CBI seeks more time: The CBI today informed the Delhi High Court that there was no need to probe a complaint alleging misuse of funds for afforestation by the TN State Pollution Control Board (TNSPCB) as now.
Federal authorities were investigating a Christmas Day fire that destroyed the Oregon regional headquarters of paper manufacturer Boise Cascade after radical environmentalists claimed to have set the blaze, an FBI spokesman said yesterday. In a press release sent to news agencies, a group claiming to be the Earth Liberation Front …
S. Guruvayurappan, was in the Capital recently to receive the World Wide Fund for Nature Tiger Conservation Award 1999 for 'notable work in involving people in tiger conservation'.He has been successful in involving the tribals into forest protection in the remote recesses of Kerala's Periyar Tiger reserve.
The California Forestry Department approved a two-year logging license for Pacific Lumber in a conditional agreement that lets state officials inspect harvest areas without warning. Jim Branham, Pacific Lumber's director of government relations, said the license also contains a series of other conditions, which include letting forestry officials attend private …
australia's Christmas Island is witness to a spectacular event every year. Millions of red crabs from this 134-sq km island's rainforest migrate to the sea to spawn, and then crawl back into their burrows. But now these crabs are being attacked by alien invaders. The threat is from supercolonies of …
Nearly 4,900 types of tropical and sub-tropical plants, including 150 rare ones, found in Hainan province of China are under immediate threat. Long regarded as China's largest botanical garden, the island is home to various plant and animal species. Major damage to rainforests in the province has already affected the …
The State government has clearly missed the woods for the trees in implementing the Integrate Rural Development Programme (IRDP) in Madhya Pradesh. A Centre-sponsored study has revealed that the overriding penchant for meeting targets has steered the scheme off-course from its real aims.
By raising the demand for amending 20-year-old Forest Conservation Act, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijay Singh has dared to do what many other chief ministers have been wanting to do but have not, for fear of adverse backlash.The Act, framed as a crisis management measure to arrest the shrinking of …
the deaths of six workers in two incidents within a fortnight at Alang has once again come as a grim reminder of the extremely hazardous working conditions for the workers, mainly migrants from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Orissa. The deaths have come within a month of the high-profile protestst by …
Forest Minister K H Ranganath today said that the Karnataka State government will formulate a working plan for cutting matured trees in reserved forests and other forest areas in the state and submit it to the Central government for approval.
The US is driving a highly lucrative, but unsustainable trade in big-leafed mahogany, says a new report from TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring programme of the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). According to the report, Mahogany Matters: The US Market …
The inquiry ordered by the Himachal Pradesh government into the award of Rs 65 lakh contract by the State Forest Corporation for the carriage of timber from Dodra Kawar by "river floating" (ghal) in October last year has released serious irregularities and malpractices.
