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 …
a recent report released by the World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development ( wcfsd ) says that about 12.5 per cent of the world's 270,000 species of plants and about 75 per cent of the world's mammals are threatened by the decline in forest cover. The threat will be …
canada has barred fishing of sockeye salmon, an important Pacific Ocean salmon specie, after officials discovered that fewer fish returned to their river spawning grounds than had been expected. Commercial and recreational fishermen were ordered not to catch sockeye salmon bound for the Fraser River basin after the department of …
The country's forest cover has shrunk by a third in the last 15 years due to illegal logging, slash-and-burn farming methods and felling of trees to make way for plantation crops, according to forest officials. A study by Vietnam Forestry Scientific Institute (vfsi) reveals that natural forest now covers 28 …
The Brazilian government has launched a campaign to monitor illegal logging and fires that are destroying the Amazonian rainforests. The government's environment agency, ibama, has joined hands with the army to save the precious reserve. Six army helicopters will assist ibama in surveying the major deforestation zones in central Brazil, …
In the run-up to the elections in India, a number of trivial issues have come to occupy the political landscape, marginalising fundamental issues that concern the common man. One such issue is the way we manage the natural environment. The days when environment was all about beautiful birds and butterflies …
following the "dioxin in food' scare in the country, the Belgium government has confirmed its plans to withdraw and destroy pork products with more than 20 per cent fat content held in slaughterhouses and storage depots in the country and overseas. The measure is related only to products originating from …
Highly-polluting, diesel-operated three-wheelers, popularly known as Vikrams, will be banished from the roads of Kathmandu from mid-September. The decision was announced recently by minister of tourism and civil aviation Bijay Kumar Gachhadar. Transport entrepreneurs are, however, unhappy over the decision. They say the government decision to exempt 75 per cent …
a last-minute gift of us $1.5 million from an anonymous donor helped a Washington State Conservation Group meet its deadline for raising us $13.1 million to save a patch of state-owned forest from the loggers' chainsaws. According to the chairperson of the group, Fred Munson, the anonymous donation came just …
to check timber smuggling in Jammu and Kashmir, the state government has launched a drive to retrieve forest area in the state. M Ramzan, the state environment and forest minister, has said that around 8,000 hectares of forest land has been reclaimed from encroaches. As many as 400 cases have …
Goa may be the first state to protect its entire stretch of forests in the Western Ghats region, but only if the present governemnt abides by a recent notification which prominent politicians and lobbies are already arguing against.In June, while Goa was under President's Rule, lush forest areas in regions …
european union ( eu ) environment ministers moved closer to a moratorium on entry of new genetically modified organisms ( gmo s) in the market, at least until new rules can be agreed on to reassure consumers of their safety. "Until new rules are in place, we do not want …
The Kerala Government will soon impose a total ban on the possession and distillation of sandalwood in the State. According to highly-placed sources in the Law Department, finishing touches are being given to a new amendment to forest laws envisaged to check the production and sale of sandalwood byproducts, like …
The Indian Railway have launched an afforestation drive on its vacant land throughout the country for improving environment, official sources said her on Thursday.They said the Railway planted 101 lakh saplings last year after the programme, which began in 1982-83 covered 35,000 hectares of land for the drive.
Forest fires have seared more than 1million acres (400,000 hectares) across Alaska so far this summer, although cool rains have slowed the blazes in parts of the state's vast interior, officials said. The area burned so far is above average for recent years but not unusual. In 1997, wildfires burned …
Rampant tree felling in many sanctuaries in Kerala has once again caught the Forest Department napping. Under the cover of the monsoon which swept the higher altitudes of the State, hundreds of trees in reserve forests and private estates were cut down. In some places like Ponmudy and Idamalayar felling …
Indonesia's poorly managed forestry industry is being targeted by the Central government for major reforms, though environmentalists and other industry observers say a government crackdown is likely to lead to an increase in illegal trade in timber and the devastation of more of the nation's badly ravaged forests. Environmentalists and …
The Tamil Nadu Green Movement(TNGM), has urged the Government to deploy armed personnel, in the forests of Gudalur, to keep at bay the encroachers, whose illegal occupation of the forest covered lands, was seriously threatening their existence.
experts : While predicting a major ecological disaster in Pakistan within the next decade, environmentalists and forests experts have said that a beginning has already been made with merciless felling of trees and large-scale destruction of forests in NWFP and the forest area in Afghanistan bordering this province. Not mincing …
Officially there are nine reserve forests in Dhemaji district. But these have been virtually reduced to open fields and human habitations by the encroachers and corrupt officials.On one hand, legal and illegal felling of trees are going on an on the othertree plantation schemes are not properly implemented.The encroachers are …
