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 …
The World Bank (WB) will provide funds for the "Natural Resources Management Project" for afforestation in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) region (Bangladesh). The decision came after the report of the nine-member review missionof the bank, which visited CHT region from May 25 to 26 last.
The Centre has proposed to constitute 'green guards' in villages particularly surrounding protected areas (PAS) to enable active involvement of locals in the protection and maintenance of forests.
On the eve of World Environment Day, an alarm has been sounded to the humanity by a noted environmentalist and a Geographer of international repute.Dr Goswami, who is presently the Professor and Head of the Department of Environment Science of the Gauhati University, in one of his papers prepared for …
Several hill districts of Uttar Pradesh experienced rain on May 9 and 10 after an abnormally long dry spell which began in October last. To many hilly regions, including Tehri in Garhwal and Nainital in Kumaon, the rain brought respite from forest fires that had reached unprecedented levels during the …
Raging forest fires have once again devastated vast areas of 634 square-kilometre Rajiv Gandhi (Nagarhole) National Park situated in Karnataka's Mysore and Kodagu districts. Thirteen separate fires occured in a single day in Nagarhole in March. According to rough estimates, not yet substantiated by satellite imagery, around eight per cent …
The Union Government has decided to go for massive bamboo cultivation in the North-eastern region, including Sikkim, to address the socio-economic problems of the country, Union environment and forest minister Suresh P. Prabhu said.
The Haryana forest Department has chalked out a commprehensive plan to promote forests under social forestry, territorial wing and community forestry projects in the state in the current financial year.
Justice A M Kapadia of Gujarat High Court has stayed the operation of the order of the assistant district judge of Junagadh allowing the appeal of the farmers for having possession of 106 acres of land of Gir forest of Surajgadh in Mendarda taluka. Farmers of Surajgadh had filed an …
To mark World Environment Day, June 5, Greenpeace has launched a campaign to save the Amazon rainforest with the cooperation of the government of Brazil. Thilo Bode, executive director of Greenpeace International told reporters in Rio Friday, "The fight against the destruction of the Amazon rainforest will be one of …
During the British rule in India, forests were village properties and the traditional cover of grass, bushes and broad-leaf trees provided shade to the undergrowth, shelter to wildlife, and was also a perennial source of underground water.Not so any more. The Uttarakhand region is a glaring example where chir trees …
Representatives of Community Forests Users Groups (CFUG) who converged in Kathmandu lauded the success of community forest programmes all over the country. In an informal interaction programme organized by Community Forestry Users Federation (CFUF)-Nepal on the occasion of its fifth anniversary, consumers-hailing from all over the country-expressed satisfaction with the …
Having suffered considerable damage to ecology due to forest fires this summer, the Himachal government is working on a plan to control such fires in future. Mr Roop Singh Thakur, Himachal Forest Minister, yesterday said that a high-level committee would be setup to study the problem in depth.
The Delhi government has finally woken up. The government will relocate inflammable chemical godowns in commercial or residentail areas of the Capital to East Delhi. The Master Plan of Delhi, 1982, had made a provision for shifting of all chemical godowns in Ghazipur. The government, however, simply forgot to implement …
Iterating his misgivings about the efficacy of Joint forest Menagement policy in North Bengal, the Chief conservator of Forests North Bengal, Mr Vinod rishi, said today that "it is high time to review the JFM philosophy".
forest cover has stablised : The Himachal Pradesh government plans to bring at least 50 per cemt of the state's geographical area under forests. A survey has revealed that the forest cover in the state has by and large stabilised and in fact, shown a marginal increase.
Mexican environmentalists have praised government audits on illegal logging in the protected reserves of migrating monarch butterflies. The Group of 100, the country's leading ecological advocacy group, said investigations by the environment ministry had found communities in the central state of Michoacan
The forestry project of the Mysore Paper Mills has violated the Forest Conservation Act and the National Forest Policy, Chief Conservartor of Forests and Project Director of Western Ghats Forestry Project P J Dilip Kumar said.
The Vice-Presidnet, Mr Krishan Kant, today called upon foresters to ensure the participation of local people and their families in forest management. No textbooks are available and the idea of allowing public participation in forest management has to be evolved through intense and sensitive probing by officers, he said, while …
It is getting uncomfartably warm again. Forests are burning across Southeast Asia, threatening to send a new blanket of haze across the region. In the past two months, "hot spots" have been identified on Sumatra and Kalimantan and Sarawak on Borneo. During the 1997 fire season, five million hectares of …
