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 …
"we've had it. Enough is enough,' said Gary Locke, governor of Washington state, at a press conference, announcing that the state would sue the us energy department for failing to clean up the worst nuclear waste dump site in the us. He said the energy department had missed two deadlines …
among the most tragic consequences of the drug war in South America is the destruction of the Andean jungle. A recent move to use a granular herbicide, called tebuthiuron or "spike', to put an end to coca cultivation has ignited a degree of opposition from environmental groups. us activists point …
the Union government has shut down 125 highly polluting industries across the country while forcing 1,261 such units to install the pollution control facilities, according to a report. The ministry of environment and forests has identified about 1,551 large and medium industries in the 17 categories of highly polluting industries. …
On the delay in taking up the Biodiversity Bill in Parliament: India will be the first country in the world to legislate on sovereign rights over its biodiversity. It is going to be a very comprehensive bill. For that, we need to seek the views of experts and stakeholders in …
Adequate attention has not been paid by the Government towards the challenging task of development of wastelands in the country, according to the Parliamentary standing committee on urban and rural development. In its seventh report tabled in Parliament, it notes that although the department of Wastelands was created in July …
SC seeks details : The Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed serious concern over the large-scale encroachments in Karnataka forests and directed the State Government to give details of such encroachments since 1978 within six weeks.
Brazil on Tuesday placed a two-year ban on mahogany logging in much of the Amazon, a move environmentalists welcomed as a step towards controlling deforestation.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) will tell environment ministers attending the 5th Association of South East Asean Nations (ASEAN) Ministers Meeting on haze, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, that the international community's response to the forest fires emergency in Indonesia has been positive.
Infantry Battalion (TA) ecological, popularly known as the Eco Task Force(ETF) is currently working in the Aglar watershed area to the north of Mussoorie after having improved the weather pattern in Doona and Mussoorie through its tireless efforts to regreen this region. Aglar is devoid of vegetation and is in …
They may look protected on tourist maps, but forests in Liscomb Game Sanctuary's aren't safe. Clearcuts on the 43,000-hectare block - set up in 1928 to preserve big game - have ruined wilderness and are a sign that Nova Scotian forests are being mismanaged, says a group of Eastern Shore …
Kudzo, the 'Green Menace' is a vine that rises each spring and summer to coat tall pines, cascade down embarkments, drape itself over abadoned houses and cars, and give the landscape the look of a lumpy green blanket. Unchecked it will cover everything in its path, depriving trees of sunlight, …
Illegal sand quarrying, cutting of vegetation and cleaning of vehicles have eaten into some of the reserve forests located on the outer periphery of the city. Such incidents are wreaking havoc on the existing greenery and environment, naturalists feel. The Nanmangalam reserve forest is located seven kilometres away from Velachery …
The Chief Minister, Mr. Prem Kumar Dhumal, said that the Government had given priority for afforestation in the State and the budgetary allocation for this has been enhanced by 44 per cent.
Ten per cent of the world's tree species face extinction through felling, forest fires and poor forest management, conservationists said in a report on Tuesday. "With 77 species already extinct, this report has now confirmed out worst nightmare," said Dr Steve Howard of the World Wide Fund for nature(WWF). The …
Genetic engineering of trees has been slow to grow. One reason being money, according to Ron Sederoff, director of the Forest Biotechnology group at North Carolina State University and head of a dozen research consortium supported by a a dozen firms interested in genetically engineered trees. But the trend is …
Gene mapping is useful against all sorts of pests-including tree thieves. Eleanor White, a researcher at the Canadian Forest Service in Victoria, British Columbia, has borrowed from forensic science and devised a way to use genetic markers to "finger-print" valuable trees so that they can be traced if they are …
Hawaii's identical mice have brought cloning back into the news and taken the prospect of manufactured people out of the realm of science fiction : a report.
The Delhi High Court on Friday issud notices to the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), its Chairman D R Mehta, Secretaries of Finance, Law and Company Affairs and Agriculture and Registrar of companies for their alleged failure to check illegal activities of plantation companies.
