Assocham urges change in forest policy
The Assocham wants the forest policy to be changed with a view to involve corporate and cooperative sectors as well NGOs to reclaim forest and non-forest wastelands and to increase the country's green cover.
Dhak tree facing extinction
Some people have started ruining the dhak trees (Khakra) from the very roots itself and using the skin of the roots of the tree for preparing ropes . The forest department has not imposed any restriction on digging of roots of these trees. If no timely action is taken by …
Officials can't oust Gujjars from forest homes, says NHRC
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has held that tribal van Gujjars living in the proposed Rajaji National Park can not be coerced by forest authorities to leave their forest homes. The Commission also said the Gujjars could not be deprived of their traditional grazing and lopping rights and added …
Forest cover depleted
report : Large-scale felling of trees and encroachments have depleted the forest cover in the Jubbal and Kotkhai areas by an alarming 25 per cent over the past 30 years. This has been revealed in a preliminary report prepared by the remote sensing cell of the state government which studied …
Govt urged to allow log concessions
The head of Thailand's Forestry Department has proposed giving concessions to companies to develop degraded forests, arguing it would stem encroachment and generate income for the state. Plodprasop Suraswadi said he believed issuing concessions would be in the best interests of the state, the private sector and, above all, the …
CM's call to protect forests
Chief Minister Digvijay Singh in his message on World Forestry Day on March 21 has called upon people to generate awareness among themselves towards forest reserves and its significance. He said forests are the unique gift of nature and are the basis of environment proteciton. It is our prime responsibility …
NBA contests Govt claim on rehabilitation
The Narmada bachao andolan has contested the government claim of carrying out rehabilitaion work of villagers to be affected by submergence due to Sardar Sarovar Project on Narmada river, at war footing saying hundreds of oustee families stand submerged once the monsoon sets in. An NBA statement alleged that no …
Forests on fire
A total of 102 fires has destroyed 2,9530 acres of forests across Bhutan since January this year. With fires reported in 19 dzongkhags, it has cost the country an estimated Nu. 147.94 million.
Passionate plea on Forestry Day to save trees
A full-gown green tree is worth about Rs 15 lakh. The oxygen provided in its life, if produced in a factory, could cost about Rs 2.5 lakh: an amount of Rs 5 lakh would be needed to cleanse carbon-dioxide from atmosphere which the trees does free of cost; it helps …
3,000 trees will be transplanted
Developers of the University of Virginia's research park are saving and transplanting 3,000 trees, some, five-storey tall, rather than cutting them and burning the debris. The trees, 106 of which rise 50 to 60 feet, are being replanted along the main road through the 532 acre reseach park near the …
Over 9,000 forest encroachments
There has been an alarming increase in encroachments in Himachal Pradesh forests over the past few years. While forest settlement operations started more than a decade ago to end discrepancies in the forest area in records of the Forest Department and the Revenue Department, are progressing at snail's pace, cases …
Government acts to protect Osa forests
Although quietly and behind the scenes, it seems the government of Costa Rica is doing something in response to the growing clamor to protect the precious forests of the south Pacific Peninsula of Osa. President Miguel Angel Rodr
Consolidated policy needed for forest produce
Persons who are linked with nature are poor whereas person who are destroying nature are rich. Plantation of those plants should be promoted which are raw material for the forest based industries. The development of the country will not be through slogans or reservtions. These analytical views were expressed by …
Forest department refuses land to DVB
The Delhi Forest department has refused land to the Delhi Vidyut Board(DVB) for extending transmission lines across the central ridge. Now the DVB will have to move the Central Government for special permission.
Nepal fire kills 32, razes 800 houses
Fires raging in Nepalese forests and villages in the past two weeks have claimed the lives of 32 people and destroyed more than 800 homes, officials said today.
'MP forest area shrinking'
The new Madhya Pradesh Environment Policy document concedes that the total forest area in the state has consistently decreased at an average rate of 473 square kilometres per annum over the last four decades. The policy was announced by the Housing and Environment Minister, Mr Kumar Patel, in the Assembly …
MP tribals protest against forestry project
Several hundred tribals from various parts of Madhya pradesh yesterday held a rally and formed a human-chair in Bhopal to protest against the ongoing Rs 800-crore World Bank-aided Madhya Pradesh Forestry Project. The protesters also collectively observed their "mock death" for 10 minutes to highlight how the project, being pushed …
Deforestation continues
Though cutting of trees around the Kathmandu Valley seemed to have decreased in the recent years, forests in other parts of Nepal are still disappearing, claims Prof. Masahiko Ohsawa of Chiba University, Japan. "In between ten years from 1977 to 1987, trees at Khandbari village simply disappeared," he pointed out …
Tribal protest over WB-aided projects
Tribals affected by World Bank-funded forestry projects are holding a five-day dharna at Roshanpura Naka, Nagpur to draw attention to their plight. They say the government is not honouring its commitment to give them patta(ownership rights) in return for displacing them from forest land they have occupied and cultivated for …
Tribal protest over WB-aided projects
Tribals affected by World Bank-funded forestry projects are holding a five-day dharna at Roshanpura Naka here to draw attention to their plight.They say the govenment is not honouring its commitment to give them patta(ownership rights) in return for displacing them from forest land they have occupied and cultivated for decades.
