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 …
Acknowledging that dioxin pollution is not being dealt with adequately, the government of Japan will introduce more stringent standards and overhaul its pollution monitoring efforts, officials said today. The decision was announced at the Cabinet's first dioxin countermeasures meeting, held this morning. The meeting was particularly concerned over unifying the …
The Saitama prefectural government in Japan will compensate vegetable growers in Tokorozawa who lost money during a recent dioxin-contamination scare, officials said Tuesday. The Saitama officials said the prefecture expects to pay up to 20,000 yen for each farming household in the area for losses sustained after a television report …
IBRD: The Maharashtra State Government was not paying due attention to forest conservation and development in the State, observed Mr. Irshad Khan, leader of the World Bank team. Mr. Khan, who is heading the 11th World Bank mission on forest projects in the country, said that the approach of the …
Glaring instances of "jungle raj" prevailing in the Forest Department have come to light in the Jubbal division where corrupt officials have made the facility of tree allotment to villagers under the timber distribution (TD) rules and encroachments a convenient tool for plundering forest wealth.
With the population of humans and livestock rising steadily, forests in Rajasthan are facing a threat of total extinction. According to sources in the Forest department, animal population growth rate is very high in the State and fodder is in short supply by nearly 40 per cent already. The situation …
A bushfire raging out of control in New South Wales has killed 4,500 sheep and burned through 22,000 acres of grassland, officials said on Thursday. New South Wales state prime minister Bob Carr declared the massive blaze a bushfire emergency as it continued to burn near Crookwell, 110 miles southwest …
The border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea has taken a new turn, with Ethiopian jets trying to destroy a vital water source in Eritrea. An Ethiopian communique said Eritrean artillery, tanks, military rations and the reservoir were damaged in the raid at Harsele and that Eritrean soldiers suffered heavy losses. …
The State Government have clarified that under the Afforestation Project being implemented with the World Bank assistance in Madhya Pradesh no forest dweller was being displaced. Despite this, a few organisations and individuals were resorting to misleading propaganda in this regard. Afforestation project is an ambitious programme for forest development …
Environment ministers of Korea, Japan and China have agreed to boost cooperation among the three countries to prevent further environmental pollution in Far East Asia. "We shared the view that the three-way cooperation in the field of environment is extremely important and indispensable, because dynamic economic development has been deteriorating …
Japanese electronics company Seiko has launched a wristwatch powered by body beat. The watch, which went on sale in Japan from December 15, 1998, exploits the temperature difference between the surroundings and the wearer's arm. According to the designers of the watch, it starts to generate electri- city as soon …
The construction of the Jessore-Khulna Drainage Rehabilitation Project (JKDRP) in Bangladesh is progressing at a snail's pace with only 20 per cent of the work completed. The project was designed to bring about 1,00,000 lakh hectares of land under cultivation. It includes building 355 km of canals, reconstruction of 29 …
Clinton Administration suspended the construction of logging roads in most of the underdeveloped back country of the national forests, decisively shifting forest policy toward conservation after a year of heated public debate. The move sets the stage for a broader review of long-term forest policy. The Administration will study not …
Conflict is looming at Dong Lan forest reserve after encroachers said yesterday they would defy a government order to move out by Sunday. Officials, with orders to use non-violent means, are set to move in to evict 600 families from the reserve. Mr Manoch said a campaign was being launched …
Deforestation of the Amazon in Brazil increased nearly 30 per cent in 1998, despite new measures to curb destruction of the world's largest rainforest, the Brazilian government said on Wednesday. Preliminary figures from satellite monitoring showed 6,500 square miles (16,800 square km) of forest - more than half the size …
The abnormally large increase in salvage marking in the Chamba forest circle in 1998 has raised eyebrows and given rise to apprehension that fellings are taking place in the grab of "salvaging dry and fallen trees". Until 1996, on an average between 20,000 and 25,000 cubic metre of standing volume …
The forest department has felled about 9.07 lakh Sal trees in the Mandla, Dindori regions of Madhya Pradesh affected by Sal Borers. This was stated by Forest Minister Ratnesh Solomon in reply to a question by Babulal Gaur of the BJP. Mr Gaur asked as to what action has the …
Nearly one-third of the sheesham trees, Dalbergia, have been damaged by a fungi attack in the mid-hills of Himachal Pradesh and Kandi belt of Hoshiarpur. Worse still, the fungi, genoderma lucidum and fusarium oxysssporum, have begun to affect Tunni, a timber species, and kikkar trees in the lower belt of …
The armed rebel groups are now backing organised rackets engaged in plunder of forests to share handsome dividents. Denudation of forest in Tripura's hill areas and smuggling of timber and animals to Bangladesh have of late assumed an alarming scale.
Environmentalists have warned that the Nepali's Government's proposal to allow a state-run body to fell trees in the Terai belt would deplete the Himalayan Kingdom's forest cover and spell doom for the bordering Indian states. Following its recent decision to allow export of millions of cubic feet of timber logs, …
Environmentalists have warned that the Nepali govenment's proposal to allow a state-run body to fell trees in the Terai belt would deplete the Himalayan kingdom's forest cover and spell doom for the bordering Indian states.Following its recent decision to allow export of millions of cubic feet of timber logs, the …
