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 …
BJP members in the Legislative Assembly today threw a challenge to Forest Minister D Manjunath to show them plantations, which exists as per government records. "plantations have been raised on 1665.31 hectares of land in Shimoga District in the last three years. Take us there and show us plantations on …
Union Home Minister L K Advani is to launch the 'Green Campaign' organised by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) on Tuesday. The MCD is planning to plant seven lakh saplings this year under their greening Delhi project. The campaign will be launched at the Bhogal community centre Jangpura.
Enthused by the success of the "tamrind revolution" , the Madhya Pradesh government is working on a comprehensive strategy for ensuring optimum production and effective marketing of the nontimber forest produces, wooden artifacts and kosa silk produced in abundance in the tribal areas of the state. The objective: to bring …
Environment ministers from the Association of South-east Asian Nations meet in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday to discuss progress in action plans to combat the recurring haze problem, a statement said.
BJP members today staged a dharna in the Legislative Assembly during zero hour protesting against the forcible eviction of 68 families of farmers from the forest land which they have been cultivating for decades in Karuva and Jalavalli villages of Uttara Kannada District.
The Orissa unit of BJP today demanded an inquiry into the manner in which the Gamang Government has allegedly allowed a private firm to have monopoly over sal seed procurement during the current year. The Government had not been able to explain as to why the sal seed procurement rights …
A record-breaking heat wave in Russia, which has ruined crops in many regions, has also unleashed a rash of fires, threatening this country with an ecological catastrophe.About 15,000 forest fires are raging across Russia and some 500 new fires break out every day, the NTV television said quoting the Emergency …
Forest fires raged on the outskirts of Moscow and in several other regions on Friday as the death toll from Russia's biggest heatwave of the century rose to more than 140.In the Moscow region, some 126 fires engulfed 145 hectares of forest and bush while 200 hectares were burning near …
Thailand's The Forest Industry Organisation might be forced to close down for good because of the ban on the hauling of all logs from the Salween forest, managing director Aduladej Chakrabandhu said yesterday. Supplies of its top-selling product, teak, would be cut drastically and suddenly as a result. Already hard-hit …
A ban on export of logs from Cameroon became effective at midnight on June 30 as planned, but the government decided to make an exception for the two main species exported, Environment and Forestry Minister Sylvestre Naah Ondoa said. Ondoa told a news conference that exports of the ayous and …
Southwest China's Sichuan Province yesterday banned the transportation of timber out of the province's Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Ganzi Qiang and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, the Ya'an Prefecture and the cities of Panzhihua and Leshan, an official said. "This constitutes another important move taken by the …
The deteriorating state of affairs in our forestry sector should be a matter of serious concern to all Zambians. The concerns raised by environment and natural resources minister William Harrington about Zambia's ecological and environmental degradation resulting from cutting down of trees for firewood and charcoal deserve the government's urgent …
The Union cabinet on Tuesday gave its consent for finalising the launch contract of Insat-3A with the European space transport company - ArianeSpace Consortium - at a cost of $83 millions or Rs. 352.75 crores at a conversion rate of Rs. 42.50 to a dollar.The Insat-3A is expected to be …
One of the keywords for the reorganization of the automobile industry and the development of cars for the 21st century is "environment." Analysts consider that the key for carmakers to survive the competition will be their ability to provide environmentally friendly cars at reasonable prices. Unlike the United States, which …
faced with a daunting food shortage and famine in parts of the country, the North Korean government is encouraging people to raise rabbits as a source of food. The animals provide lots of fur and meat and grow fast on very little feed, the country's Rodong Shimmun newspaper has reported. …
the Pakistan government is planning to replace about 100,000 two-stroke engine autorickshaws with four-stroke engines to check the growing air and noise pollution in the cities. A delegation of leading manufacturers of autorickshaws recently held a meeting with the officials of the environment ministry and presented a proposal to the …
Greenpeace said that Belgian timber industry officials have agreed to meet them to discuss logging practices in the central Africa nation of Cameroon. About 20 Greenpeace activists temporarily blocked the unloading of a timber shipment from Cameroon to protest what it claims are environmentally damaging logging practices. "We want to …
To mark World Environment Day, Greenpeace launched a campaign to save the Amazon rainforest with the cooperation of the government of Brazil ( Down To Earth , Vol 8, No 2). Thilo Bode, executive director of Greenpeace International said, "The fight against the destruction of the Amazon rainforest will be …
The Kerala State Government's decision not to withdraw concessional tariff on forest produce supplied to Grasim industries has put the Kerala Forest Development Corporation in a fix with the latter finding it difficult to decide on a proposal to withdraw concession with immediate effect. The question of withdrawing the concessional …
Environmental groups announced a global campaign to oppose the elimination of tariffs on wood products. The groups fear that new proposals to remove tariffs on lumber and wood products would increase consumption, leading to more rapid deforestation. The World Trade Organisation is expected to discuss the proposals as part of …
