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 …
Villagers of Thriambakapura in Turthahalli taluk have appealed to the Karnataka High Court to save the thick forest adjoining their village from proliferating industrial plantations.A paper industry based at Bhadravathi has forcibly entered the area in violation of the High Court order and taken up mono-culture by using outside manpower …
Brazil on Tuesday launched a campaign to monitor illegal logging and fires destroying the Amazon rainforest in a joint operation between the army and the government's Environment Agency (Ibama). Six helicopters from the army's Ground Operations Command will assist Ibama in surveying the major deforestation zone in central Brazil, an …
The clusters of bamboos which play a significant role in economy of the people of Bangladesh living in rural areas are on the verge of extinction. Bamboo cultivation has been reduced to less than 50 per cent due to gradual increase in the building of houses, construction of roads and …
minister : The forest minister, Mr Jogesh Buman, has admitted that some officials from his department were hand-in-glove with North Bengal timber thieves and illegal saw mill owners. Most of these mills were in Jalpaiguri's Falakata and madarihat areas, he said. Mr Burman said many of these saw mills had …
Brazil has launched a campaign to monitor illegal logging and fires destroying the Amazon rainforest in a joint operation between the army and the Government's Environment Agency(Ibama).
The Centre should make available special funds to Himachal Pradesh to help the State expand its forest cover as also compensate it for the revenue losses incurred due to non-exploitation of forest resources, the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry(PHDCCI) has said.
Smoke from forest and ground fires is beginning to shroud the skies over several parts of the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Borneo, officials said on Tuesday."It is starting again. There are now indications that smoke from forest and ground burning is back," said David Nael of the Central Kaimantan …
Two major forest fires in the Uttarakhand region in this decade have caused irreparable loos, pushing back forest growth by almost a hundred years. This year along, devastating fires had engulfed more than 70,000 hectares of forests in the Uttarakhand region comprising Garhwal and Kumaon Himalayas. In 1995, more than …
Malaysia has called for international timber regulatory bodies to redefine the term "forest" to include oil palm and rubber plantations. Deputy Primary Industries Minister Datuk Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said the current definition was unfair and discriminatory towards developing countries. "The definition of forest should be more comprehensive and should include …
The Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) project affected Adivasis from the Nadurbar district have demanded that the Maharashtra government admit that it does not have enough land to rehabilitate the oustees. Around 500 Adivasis from the district have come to the city and are staging an indefinite dharna at Azad maidan …
50 uprooted trees get a life, flyover work too carries on: About 50 trees, uprooted for building a fly-over, have been transplanted to near the Andrews Ganj crossroad. And the labourers, working at the site for the last 20 days say transplanting has been the best for both - business …
With the implementation of the Eco Development Project in villages within five kilometre radious of Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, the pressure on natural resources has been reduced. Thanks to the active participation of villagers, the programme has been successful say forest department officials.
Pakistan's national exchequer is being deprived of revenues worth millions of rupees every year, sometime because of natural calamities and sometime because of man-made disasters. Where Cyclone-2A devastated forests which were a source of shade, shelter and food to many, men are chopping down trees and stealing valuable wood at …
A major culprit is the decline of forests, which covered 40 percent of Ethiopia a century ago. Today the figure is less than 4 percent. Deforestation has turned much fertile crop and pasture land into dust bowls. Such were conditons in 1983-1984, when failed harvests triggered the great famine.
Orissa's forest cover has shrunk by 1420 sq km in the last nine years brining down the total forest area from 59,555 sq km in 1990 to 58,135 sq km in 1999, according to official sources. Of the present cover,31,785 sq km remained under the Revenue Department in different village …
The Gujarat Government has all but finalised the decision to sell the Baroda central Jail grounds, along with 7,000 trees."A few trees may be cut down in the green zone for contruction of roads and the like, but bringing down thousands of trees cannot be allowed under any circumstances", says …
Cash-starved Sri Lanka wants to cut down valuable teak trees in its national parks, raising a cry of outrage from environmentalists. A committee appointed by the President Chandrika Kumaratunge early this year suggested the government could earn $ 35 million by cutting and selling the teak. That is enough to …
The environment and forests ministry has proposed that special purpose vehicles be created in Union ministries to raise additional resources for tree plantations.The proposal is contained in the ministry's action plan for increasing the forest cover from the present 19.27 per cent of the total land area to 33 per …
Although the Chipko movement is practically non-existent in its region of origin it remains one of the most frequently deployed examples of an environmental and/or a women's movement in the South. A small but growing number of commentators are now critiquing much neopopulist theorising on Chipko, and this paper provides …
