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 …
of the nearly 39,000 tanks that recharge the groundwater in Tamil Nadu, more than 20,000 of them are small minor irrigation tanks. The level of water in these tanks is dependent on the vagaries of the weather. Most of the farmers of the area are entirely dependent on this system …
a survey conducted by the ministry of environment and forests has identified major elephant corridors in the country. The survey was the need of the hour because elephants were not being able to move from one area to another for food and mating due to lack of corridors. S C …
The World Bank had decided to hold back the financial grant following large scale opposition of the projects by the non-governmental organisations. Official sources told UNI that the World Bank had for the time being deferred the implementation of the second phase of the forestry projects. We are discussing with …
The Dibru-Saikhowa National Park authorities achieved a major success when it thwarted an abortive attempt at destruction of forests inside the national park recently by nabbing four miscreants along with boats and weapons. The miscreants were felling trees and loading logs.
A Social Forestry Mission has been launched by the Madhya Pradesh government in four districts of the state for productive use of natural resources in private hands which are lying idle due to legal complications.
Certain forest contractors in connivance with officials of the state Forest Corporation are using the forests lots of private sale to cover up and carry out illicit felling in the Thachi range of Mandi circle.
Over 300 tribals from Madhya pradesh, Orissa and representatives of several Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) assembled at the World Bank premises in the Capital on Wednesday. They presented a memorandum against the World Bank-funded Madhya Pradesh Foresttry project, which is threatening the lives of the tribals.
Patrudu: Of the six districts for which data on forest coverage is available through remote sensing, Nizamabad registered a good 57.30 per cent increase in the coverage between 1996 and 1998.
The Lobeake forest lies on the border of the Sangha river, 500 kilometers south-east of Yaounde, the capital of Cameraon. It became a protected reserve in June 1998 when the government decided to make a gift to the earth as part of the international conservation organisation WWF's living planet campaign.
Forest Minister K H Ranganath today said that his department was contemplating formulation of a new policy which would help in striking a balance between felling matured trees and re-plantation at Bangalore.
The tree density in the 370 sq kms forests of the Vijaynagar taluka of the Sabarkantha district has reached above 40 per cent, says a latest report published by the Forest Survey of India.
Pyongyang, with 2 million residents, has cleaner air largely because there isn't enough money or gasoline for more vehicles, belying the dire state of North Korea's environment. The key problem is deforestation. So many hills have been stripped of trees that the North Korean leader Kim Jong II plans to …
The Centre has embarked on an innovative project on bamboo in the north-eastern region. Under the project, it had planned for intensive scientific management one lakh hectare of existing bamboo forest every year with a proposal to identify 50,000 beneficiaries a every year.
In a strongly-worded memorandum to Gujarat forest and environment minister Kanjibhai Patel, three different organisations, claiming to represent the Gir Maldharis, alleged that in "clear violation of the World Bank's (WB) eco-development project" for the Gir National Park, they are being "unilterally asked to vacate the forest."
Major damage to large areas of rain forests in the southernmost province of Hainan threatens to affect the bio-diversity and ecological balance of the green island. Long regarded as China's largest botanical garden, the island is known as a haven for various species of plants and animals. Hainan boasts more …
They have dodged bulldozers on two occasions. But this time, it seems, the 500 encroachers embedded in the Yeoor foothills will have to succumb to the government's efforts to reclaim 500 acres of forest land in the Thane jurisdicaiton of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP).
