Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
Protecting the world's dwindling forests and making small farms more productive will cost hundreds of billions of dollars annually – money governments and charities do not have to spend, experts said at a London conference. Private investors could fill the gap, they said - but only if environmentalists and finance …
The County Government of Busia is partnering with Kenya Forestry Research Institute to promote bamboo planting as a conservation measure towards restoration of environment, County Executive member has disclosed. Speaking to Africa Science News in his office, Benard Yaite, C.E.M for Natural Resources, Water and Environment said the county is …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will start a tree plantation campaign by planting a sapling at his official residence 7 RCR on June 5 to mark the World Environment Day. Addressing the media ahead of the World Environment Day, Minister of State of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar said …
Jakarta: One of the world's largest manufacturers of pulp and paper in Indonesia has announced it will immediately stop logging in all natural forests. Loss of forest habitat through pulp and paper logging and palm oil plantations has pushed endangered species such as the Sumatran tiger, rhinoceros, elephants and the …
SHIMLA: Long dry conditions, wind and the heatwave have notched up the risk of forest fires these days in low and mid-hills of Himachal Pradesh. The state forest department is, for the first time, monitoring the situation via satellites. Forest Minister Thakur Singh Bharmouri believes fire is a natural phenomenon …
PANAJI: National green tribunal (NGT) has issued a show cause notice to the conservator of forests for not complying with its directions to identify and demarcate areas of private forests in various survey numbers of Salvador do Mundo in toto. In an order recently, the tribunal observed that after perusing …
Surveys and interviews were used to understand community resilience in forest-dependent communities facing climate change in Cameroon. Surveys of 232 individuals showed a diversity of formal and informal institutions that relate to most aspects of rural life. Although direct activities related to climate change adaptation were limited, the activities and …
Dodoma — THE government plans to transform Tanzania Forest Service Agency (TFS) into Tanzania Forest Authority (TFA), to ensure proper protection and conservation of forests in the country. Tourism and Natural Resources Minister, Mr Lazaro Nyalandu, launching the TFS advisory board here on Tuesday, said more details on the TFA …
Foreign tourists start online campaign to save trees Deodar trees in McLeodganj, Bhagsu and Dharamkot areas near Dharamsala are under threat. The trees have been taken inside the constructed areas of commercial buildings coming up in these areas. In some cases, trees stand in the middle of buildings which illustrates …
Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator Mushahid Ullah Khan has said that Pakistan has achieved the target of 12% protected areas under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on Environmental Sustainability. "However, the target to increase the forest cover to 6% is yet to be achieved, and it requires dedicated window …
Apple is carving out a status for itself as a forest defender. That’s the role the electronics giant has assumed in an effort to increase the sustainable forestry pulp and paper supply that it needs for packaging. On Monday, Apple announced a plan to work with the World Wildlife Fund …
Indonesia’s president Joko “Jokowi” Widodo extended the country’s partial forest-clearing moratorium on Wednesday, the day of its expiration, leaving largely intact a policy civil society groups had demanded be strengthened. Environment and forestry minister Siti Nurbaya said the government greatly appreciated the calls from organisations such as Greenpeace, Walhi, Kemitraan, …
More than half the world’s mangroves have been lost over the last century but all of those surviving in Sri Lanka, one of their most important havens, are now to be protected in an unprecedented operation. The organiser of the project, the biggest of its kind, see the role of …
Lilongwe — The Principal Secretary (PS) for the Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining Kester Kaphaizi has expressed concern over Malawi's deforestation rate which is ranked first (1st ) in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Kaphaizi made the remarks on Monday at Cross Roads Hotel in Lilongwe during …
Calabar — With Nigeria losing over 500,000 hectares of forest yearly to deforestation, experts have called for the repeal of the Land Use Act in the country. Executive Director, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, (ERA/FoEN) Dr.Godwin Uyi Ojo, in an inception workshop on "Community Mobilization and Resistance Against …
WITH Nigeria losing over 500,000 hectares of forest yearly to deforestation, experts have called for the repeal of the Land Use Act in the country. Executive Director, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, (ERA/FoEN) Dr.Godwin Uyi Ojo, in an inception workshop on “Community Mobilization and Resistance Against Land Grabbing …
An international scientific conference about the impact of climate change on forest ecosystems, adaptation strategies and mitigation kicked off here on Thursday bringing together 147 participants from 30 countries. "Recent studies have shown that due to many circumstances such as climate change, social and economic factors, forestry is becoming very …
Expanding agriculture is the biggest driver of deforestation around the world, and giving local residents greater control over forested land leads to better environmental management, forest researchers said on Wednesday. An estimated 1.2 billion people rely on forests for their livelihood, including about 60 million indigenous people who are almost …
The forest department has put in place a policy for private forest management and the process for identification of private forest is now going on, environment and forest minister Alina Saldanha told TOI. Saldanha said that the work of identification of private forests in Goa is going on through two …
Kenya and Tanzania have signed an agreement on environmental conservation and management of trans-boundary forest resources. In a meeting in Arusha last week, the two countries signed an MoU to strengthen cooperation on management of forests and enhancing the laws on forests. Kenya Forest Service acting CEO Emilio Mugo and …
