Forestation project planned
Shogakukan Inc. will launch a 500 hectare forestation project in Australia in 2000 with Nippon Paper Industries Co. and Mitsui & Co., the Tokyo based publishing company said. It will establish a concern to procure land, while Nippon Paper and Mitsui will undertake operations through a joint venture operating in …
High Yielding eucalyptus of AP to be adopted
The Haryana Government has decided to create infrastructure for the propogation of eucalyptus by taking technical knowhow on cloning from Bhadrachalam (Andhra Pradesh). Mr Banarsi Das, Principal Chief Conservator of Forest, Haryana, talking to newspersons at Yamunanagar , said these clones would increase the yield per hectare of eucalyptus by …
Forest fires in J&K
Forest fires have been reported across Jammu and Kashmir, some of them apparently sparked by the cross border shelling. While the initial reports of forest fires were received from the outskirts of Srinagar a fortnight back, the situation took a alarming turn when incidents were reported from the dense woods …
ASEAN asks Jakarta to combat haze
Setting no deadlines and ultimatums for the prevention of environmental haze across a vast region, the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Thursday took a step towards the development of a legal framework on transboundary haze pollution.
India seeks $32 b international aid for forest programme
India on Monday asked international donor agencies to fund its ambitious $3.2 billion forestry programme to be implemented over the next 20 years. Suresh Prabhu asked so, while inaugurating a conference of International donor agencies for the National Forest Programm (NFP), organised by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Food …
Village tense over felling of trees
Tension prevails in Garnavathi village of the Rohtak district over the issue of the alleged illegal felling of trees on the panchayati land by the contractor who had been authorised failed to stop the illegal felling within 24 hours. The Sarpanch of the village, Ms Chotti Devi, has sent complaints …
Saving the tall timber
The U.S. Forest Service turns a bit more green.Dombeck is the first director to admit what critics have contended for years - that the taxpayers are taking huge losses on the Forest Service contracts with the timber industry. Using the agency's own data, the Wilderness Society estmates that the Forest …
Haryana govt's help sought for greening Ridge
Prmopted by the afforestation done by the Haryana forest department in the Aravalli ranges, the Delhi government has urged the Haryana government to extend expertise and knowhow for preparing a management plan to increase the green cover in the Delhi Ridge Forest area.
Tribals hack into Kerala's reserve forest
The tribesmen and Dalits living in the thick reserve forest of Thamaravellachal, near the Peechi Reservoir in Thrissur, have challenged Forest Department officials by taking law into their hands. In the past two weeks around 80 families of the Malaya tribe and Dalits belonging to Kavara and Paraya communities have …
Sullage snuffs out 250 Smriti Van trees
The hoarding screams 'Cherish a Memory, Plant a tree'. But go beyond the billboard and you come face to face with 572 trees standing in two feet deep sullage covered in algae and full of snakes. As many as 250 of these trees are dead, the others are struggling to …
Forests bartered away for votes
The race to win votes is having a dangerous impact on India's depleting natural resources which are just "gifted" away during poll time, say conservationists who have drawn up a "green charter" to save nature. From transferring forest officials to taking action against encroachers, to promising dams in protected areas …
Green, green, grass of hope
The city government has decided to remove the slums from the parks. A number of parks have been used in the past for temporarily relocating slums. This decision has been taken by the new government in view of the fast depletion of the green cover in the Capital. At a …
Youthreach launched an afforestation drive in Delhi
Youthreach a leading social welfare organisation announced the expansion of its efforts to green Delhi. Besides Kalpavriksh and Pravah, this afforestation campaign also has the support of the forest department of the Delhi Government.
Project to cut fuelwood use in Trashigang
An upcoming UNDP-supported project might be an answer to north Trashigang's dilemma: how to address mounting environmental problems against population pressure. On Wednesday the UNDP and Bhutan Youth Development Association(BYDA), the project implementing agency, signed a Nu 1.38 million agreement that will, for one, address forest depletion in the region's …
Green is in
A rush to adopt trees : Enthused at the idea of having their own full grown or even partially grown trees, Delhiites are calling the Delhi Metrol Rail Corporation (DMRC) office for a tree of their own. The adoption process has begun. Among others who have wished to adpot trees …
Logging ban to affect Lijiang
Months after China imposed a nationwide logging ban, residents in Lijiang, Yunnan Province, are worried that their ancient architectural style may be irreversibly hurt by a wood supply shortage. Widespread concerns set in when more than 6,500 households in the town, listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site, were caught …
Green cover shrinks as Forest Dept turns a blind eye
It took less than eight months for unauthorised miners to turn a green land given to the Forest Department by the gram sabha of Rajokri village, in south-west Delhi, into a barren tract. About 70 mines are operating in the erstwhile gram sabha land and dynamites used to help the …
Reprieve for last wilderness
Victoria's last unprotected wilderness has been spared from logging, with 2700 hectares of the Wongungarra Valley near Mount Hotham to be turned into National Park. And another 174,000 hectares has been set aside for conservation under a 20-year forest agreement covering north-east Victoria (Australia).
California forest anti-fire plan to boost logging
The U.S. Forest Service approved a plan aimed at reducing the threat of wildfire that could more than double logging on 2.4 million acres in three national forests in Northern California. An act passed in 1998 directed the forest service to come up with a plan to create a series …
Green groups slam world Governments over logging
Environmental groups criticised governments around the world for failing to control commercial timber logging which they said devastated precious rainforests and wildlife. "Government inertia and hollow promises made by the timber industry have failed to control unsustainable logging, and without radical changes there are limited prospects that they will do …
