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 …
more than one in 10 of the aquatic birds in Spain's Donana National Park are suffering from the effects of high levels of heavy metals after a toxic spill at the Los Frailes zinc mine a year ago, said a report. The report by Spain's Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas …
according to findings of a study commissioned by the European Union ( eu), E uropeans are constantly being exposed to unsafe amounts of ground-level ozone. "The threshold set for the protection of human health is exceeded substantially and in all member states,' reported the Copenhagen-based European Environment Agency ( eea …
Environmentalists have consistently raised the demand that urgent steps are needed to protect the Amazon rainforests in Brazil. The significance of their demand is reinforced by a recent study that shows that the forests are being damaged at twice the speed as normally believed. This was revealed in a study …
Bureaucratic apathy and Govenment red-tapism are alledged to have scuttled efforts of some intenational agencies to extend a Rs 5-crore funding for the first time in the country for a medium-sized community forest management project drawn up by a Dehradun-based NGO.
A Rs 5 crore "vanaspati van" will be developed in the Morni hills of Panchkula district in Haryana. State ayurveda minister Kanta Devi said in Chandigarh on Saturday that this van wouldbe developed over an area od 4,945 hectares of land for which Rs 10 lakh had initially been sanctioned …
Jacob: Meghalaya Governor Sri M M Jacob has expressed grave concern that the process of depletion of forest cover in the North Eastern region is still continuing since a satellite imagery survey in 1993 reported a disapperance of 635 sq kms of forest area in 1993.
The Hyderabad urban development authority plans to take up massive afforestation programme in 15,000 hectares of land in and around the twin cities during the next five years. This project is estimated to cost Rs 84 crore and Huda has already approached the government of Netherlands, Japan and the Asian …
The Delhi Environment and Forest Department would plant 23 lakh trees this year, according to the Action Plan finalised by the Environment Department. Of these, 60 per cent trees would be planted during the rainy season and the rest by October-end.
Argentina's forestation programme should plant 180,000 hectares of new trees in 1999 as the nation guns for a fresh two million sown hectares in a 10-year push, government officials said. Currently about 800,000 hectares of land are planted around the country thanks to economic stability, new laws and choice soils …
Jardhar Gaon, a typical hill village nestling in the serene and picturesque surroundings in the Himalayan foothills has achieved great success in conserving forests, reviving agricultural traditions and developing an amazing range of crop diversity. Situated in the Tehri district at an altitude of 1,500 metres, the village lies in …
Women and social workers are drawing inspiration from their age-old traditions to check the depletion of precious forest wealth in the Garhwal and Kumaon Hills of Uttar Pradesh. Garhwal womenfolk, have once again launched a novel movement known as "rakshasutra" (safety thread) . This movement has been gathering momentum has …
The President of India, K R Narayanan has been urged to promulgate an ordinance excluding reserved forests from the jurisdiction of the District Government system of Madhya Pradesh.
It may sound strange that a State earns more money by exploiting its poorest people, but this is the hard truth as far as the Orissa Government's attitude towards the Kendu leaf pluckers are concerned.
Describing the Conservation Acts as "anti-people', the village panchayats and the social activities of the Uttarakhand region have launched a drive to express their resentment against these laws.A meeting of the activists was recently held at Dugada in Pauri district of the State, where participants voiced their resentment against the …
The Ministry of environment and forests has taken up a Rs 150 crore bamboo plantation scheme to augument availability of bamboo resources. The scheme was launched on the occasion of the World Environment day on June 5, by Prime Minister A B Vajpayee.
Denso Haryana Pvt Ltd (DHPL), the company which is to supply multi-point-fuel-injection (MPFI) kits to Maruti Udyog Ltd for meeting Euro-II norms in its cars, will start production only by the year end.
J&K; Forest Minister, Choudhary Mohammad Ramzan announced that the Rs 217 crore World Bank Intergrated Watershed Development Project phase-II would be taken in hand shortly for rehabilitation of degraded forests of the Kandi and Korwas belt in the state.
Sikkim joined the rest of the world in observing Environment Day by launching an afforestation scheme of memorial forests or smriti bans to develop stretches of barren and degraded land into forests.Inaugurating the first Smriti Ban at the Bulbuley Rhododendron Test Garden in the upper reaches of Gangtok, chief minister, …
Bamboo - the "timber of the poor" - was the World Environment Day's symbolic reminder of ecological conservation today with the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, launching a new scheme to augment bamboo resources in the country.
