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 …
One of the central pillars of the Costa Rican government's environmental policy was badly shaken recently, when the Finance Ministry ordered a freeze on the incentives paid to landowners to preserve their forests. A mix-up caused by a change in the government's accounting rules has jeopardized the Environmental Service Payments …
Commenting on the many reports of recent forest fire disasters around the world, Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), said governments, UN agencies, non-governmental organisations and those directly involved in fire-fighting operations must strengthen their cooperation, in order to be better prepared and jointly respond …
British scientists believe they have discovered a potentially important way to alter the chemical characteristics of complex biological molecules. The findings could have implications for the manufacture of biosensors, sensing devices that exploit the fact that certain proteins-antibodies or enzymes-can recongnize tiny quantities of specific substances.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken a "family portrait" of young, ultra-bright stars nested in their embryonic clound of glowing gases. The celestial maternity ward, called N81, is located 200,000 light-years away in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a small irregular satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. These are probably the …
Minister : The Forest department will soon start planting 4 to 5 crore saplings in the forest land of Karnataka under an elaborate afforestation programme aided by the Overseas Economic Co-operation Fund (OECF), Forest Minister D Manjunath said.
The Centre yesterday got a reprieve of three weeks for drawing up a scheme to share Cauvery water between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu when the Supreme Court adjourned hearing in the case till August 12.
With a donation of only ten baht, even the poorest of the poor can now show their love for Their Majesties of Thailand and, at the same time, help increase green areas under a forestation programme to mark the Queen's 66th birthday next month, and the King's 72nd birthday next …
As part of efforts to prevent the encroachment of forest areas, Kailali district forest office has removed about 1,900 huts and sheds built illegally within the areas of three forest ilaka forest offices of the district in Nepal.
Firefighters hoped for cooler and wetter weather to help them extinguish a fire that has torched an estimated 22,000 hectares of forest and crop land in Spain's north eastern Catalonia region. Two thirds of the 55,000 acres affected was forest, while remainder was farm and scrubland.
The Forest Minister, Mr. Roop Singh Thakur, has said that the second phase of the Indo-German Changer project for boosting forestry and horticulture in Himachal Pradesh will start from next year. The project covers 578 villages under 107 panchayats of Kangra district of the State, he said.
The followers of the legendary Gauri Devi, who championed the cause of the magnificent Deodars in the higher reaches of Garhwal and triggered off the Chipko Movement in the seventies, have entered the core area of the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve in the deliberate move to claim back their traditional …
With virtually no space available in the plains, the Haryana forest Department had decided to bring 18,000 acres of additional area under green cover during the current financial yeat.
Discharge of untreated effluents into the sea and unchecked growth of the population and commercial activities along India's coastal belt have polluted the surrounding seas beyond redeemable limits.
A huge stockpile of timbers worth about Tk 10 crore are being rotten in deep forest of the Bandarban district as those could not be taken out due to a government ban on transportation. Owners of the timbers alleged that they cannot take out the timbers logged from their own …
Europe's pulp and paper industry is poised for further consolidation as companies seek to improve returns amid a climate of low prices. Forestry groups across the region are considering strategic alliances and reassessing their product ranges in response to two major link-ups recently, and to a slide in pulp and …
A fact sheet prepared by the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology reveals that 22 Indian plants have been cornered by foreign companies through unlawful patents, for their beneficial derivatives.The latest on the list of patents to be filed in India, is Nestle India's process patents on vegetable pulao, …
Increasing population, agriculture, urbanisation and industrialisation have been pinpointed as the major causes for the rapid depletion of the forest cover in Assam. The State Forest Department has estimated that out of a growing stock of forest products of roughly 304.4 million cubic metres(cum), the total annual demand has been …
The memorandum of understanding (MoU) for Wewa Hydel Project Phase-II with a 120-MW power generation capacity, will be signed next month. This is the fourth major hydel power project of Jammu & Kashmir for which MoU is being signed.
timber products from precious high altitude Nepalese forests continue to meet the timber demand of homes and monasteries in Tibet. Finished timber products smuggled by the Nepalese traffickers into Tibet is depleting the precious forests in the northern Himalaya. It has also become a source of revenue for the Chinese …
It has long been believed that correcting genes in the womb is one of the best ways to treat congenital diseases. Studies on animals have included injection of modified viruses into amniotic fluid, maternal blood or the foetus. However, this has failed to deliver enough genes, sometimes even injuring the …
