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 …
Man-elephant conflict in seven forest divisions in three districts of south Bengal resulting in the loss of human lives and pachyderms is emerging as a major challenge for foresters and the district administration. While a 70-year-old villager was killed by an elephant in Jhragram subdivision in Paschim Medinipur district on …
Bardibas, May 11: Minister for Forest and Soil Conservation Mahesh Acharya has said that management of the encroached area of the Sagarnath Forest Development Project (SFDP), situated in Mahottari and Sarlahi districts, will be made soon. Talking to media persons soon after monitoring the forest area of the project on …
Seeking to bring out a comprehensive plan for forest management involving local communities across the country, the Centre will conduct a fresh socio-economic survey of forest dwellers and those living in fringe villages within 3km from the forests. The move will help the government get complete data on dependence of …
Apathetic attitude towards writing and implementing forest working plans in right spirit by forest officials has drawn state government's attention. Principal secretary (forests) Praveen Pardeshi has asked head of forest force (HoFF) to take the issue seriously and also fix responsibilities for the lapses. TOI on May 3 had reported …
From the tropics to the poles, from small islands to large continents, and from the poorest countries to the richest, climate change impacts are already widespread, costly and consequential, UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said, urging stakeholders gathered in the UAE capital to consider concrete actions to tackle the phenomenon now …
Forest working plans are considered the Bible for ensuring sustainable and scientific management of forests. Yet, at least 18 of the 51 forest divisions in the state are without such plans after the period of last plan expired on April 1, 2014. A working plan is a document prepared for …
Individuals who score tickets for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil but worried that the jet travel required to get to matches will contribute to global warming can rest easy. FIFA, soccer's governing body, on Wednesday said it will cover the cost of programs to neutralize carbon emissions related to …
An Act for the law relating to consolidation, management, sustainable use and conservation of forests in Arunachal Pradesh. This Act may be called the Arunachal Pradesh Forest Act, 2014.
A joint statement issued by a number of movements, conservation NGOs and experts in conservation biology against the application filed in the Supreme Court against the Forest Rights Act.
Read text of Maharashtra Village Forest Rules 2014 released by the state government on March 5 2014 to to institutionalize an effective management regime for conservation and long-term sustainability of forests.They apply to part of such reserved forests (RF) or protected forests (PF) in the village as assigned under the …
The Code - sustainable management of forests and biodiversity — has stressed the need to carry out forest conservation without affecting the livelihood of villagers. It has been prepared by the Forest Research Institute, Dehradun. The survey shall entail collecting information on socio-economic status of the people living in and …
It is an inconvenient truth that the poorest people in India live in the country's richest forests. The management of this green wealth has not brought any benefits to the locals Forests have been blacked out in the economic assessment of the country. The Economic Survey does not even list …
Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, the UPA government has decided to push a Rs 46000 crore ambitious mission to increase forest cover in the country. Environment Minister M Veerappa Moily said the Union Cabinet will consider tomorrow the Green India Mission, one of the eight missions under the National …
To stop the destruction of forests and increase its green cover to 33% as laid down in the national policy, the state forests department has launched a campaign to rope in villagers to voluntarily enable regeneration of forests. It has distributed subsidised LPG cylinders and grants for biogas plants and …
PES: A give and take initiative of the department of forest and park services (DoFPS) could save natural resources, and even help reduce poverty in rural areas, if it gains momentum. The policy, ‘payment for environmental services’ (PES), is a system, where an individual or an organisation utilising natural resources …
The 2013 Revised Supplementary Methods and Good Practice Guidance Arising from the Kyoto Protocol (KP Supplement) provides supplementary methods andgood practice guidance for estimating anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions by sources and removals by sinks resulting from land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) activities under Article 3, paragraphs 3 and …
Community forest users here have been working actively in the management of local forests with a realisation that the forests belonged to them as their common property. Stakeholders claimed that, leaving aside some minor anomalies, the active forest management (AFM) approaches, implemented both in the community and collaborative forestry programmes, …
The tropical forests of southeast Asia have been shaped by humans for the last 11,000 years, according to new research. Researchers at Queen's University in Belfast (Northern Ireland), have discarded theories that the rainforests of Borneo, Sumatra, and Java (in Indonesia), Thailand and Vietnam were largely unaffected by humans. A …
Forest: Forest authorities have suspended the formation of community forest since October 2013. Although forest officials said this was being done to streamline procedures and flaws pertaining to community forest management, many in the villages said it was because of allegations arising against forest officials and community forest management groups …
The forest department of Uttarakhand has 13 circles, 44 divisions, 284 ranges and 1569 beat..The human population of the State is 101.167 lacs (2011) compared to 25.18 lacs in 1951 and that of livestock is 76.16 lacs in 2007 as compared to 41.68 lacs (1993) and 38.692 in 1972. The …
