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 …
Environmentalists see red over wildlife bill in Bangladesh. A rift has been created between the Bangladesh government and activists. Reason: a bill that gives powers to the government to declare forest areas protected while pushing for co-management of forests by authorities and communities. Activists say the bill, if passed, would …
KP Environment and Forests Minister, Wajid Ali Khan on Thursday directed officials to complete all the forests working plans at earliest for conservation and protection of natural resources in Khyber Pakthunkhwa. Chairing a high-level meeting for Environment and Forests Department here at Civil Secretariat, the minister directed to complete work …
In a first of its kind initiative, a four-day Forest Congress will be held in the city on Tuesday which is aimed at highlighting the changing landscape of forestry in India and related issues. The first Indian Forest Congress 2011 is being organised by Indian Council of Forestry Research and …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government is mulling extension of the Orissa Forestry Sector Development Project (OFSDP) which is currently implemented in 10 districts. The OFSDP is being implemented with assistance from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The project started in 2006-07 and is slated to end in 2012-13. However, the Forest …
A revised version of the decades-old forest act suggests critical changes in key government powers to protect what little is left of forests, including the establishment of a settlement committee to determine the status of land, measures to ensure community participation, increase in the number of acts prohibited and enhancement …
Hasbro, the second largest American toy company, today announced a new packaging policy that excludes the use of fiber produced via destruction of rainforests, reports Greenpeace. The policy requires suppliers of forest products to "demonstrate compliance with all applicable international and national legal requirements for forest management, harvest, manufacturing and …
Development projects conceived now are rarely expected to have a life of more than five years, perhaps ten years at most. Looking back over more than twenty years of project experience in community forestry - itself grounded on an integrated development project of a similar time span - is thus …
The FAO and the National Forest Programme Facility have released a publication titled, "Climate Change for Policy-Makers: An approach for integrating climate change in forest programmes in support of sustainable forest management." The report aims to assist senior officials in government administrations and representatives of other stakeholders to prepare the …
PANJIM: At long last, the State government has constituted a high level committee to scrutinize suggestions and objections given in response to the Goa Forest Policy, 2011. The Committee which will be headed by Secretary Forest will be notified soon. The committee, which will have ecologists, wildlife enthusiasts and forest …
About 80 percent of the forested area of the developing world is held under public ownership. Many critics of state ownership argue that public stewardship of forests has been poor, pointing to high rates deforestation on land owned and administered by governments. These criticisms have given rise to a movement …
The report of the working group on forests and sustainable management of natural resources is a collective effort to introduce and explain the concerns and challenges faced by the sector and the strategy to address them in the Twelfth Five Year Plan. Forests can no longer be considered as nature’s …
SIVASAGAR: After an assessment and review conference at the Divisional office of the District Forest department in Sivasagar with 34 chairmen and secretaries of the Forest Management Committee’s the District Forest Officer Ranjan Kumar Das told this correspondent that in a convenient location at Sivasagar town there would be a …
PANJIM: State Government is likely to come out with a notification directing setting up of a committee to scrutinize the suggestions given and objections raised regarding the Forest Policy 2011, within a week. Forest Department had last month forwarded a formal request after state government agreed to screen the suggestions …
SRINAGAR: Chief Secretary, Madhav Lal today called for replicating ICT system of Madhya Pradesh in Jammu and Kashmir to manage and conserve forests in a systematic way. Addressing a valedictory function of the one day workshop on 'Concurrent Monitoring of CAMPA and Digitization of Forest Boundaries', the Chief Secretary appreciated …
Recently, on discovering that I work in the forest department, a lady co-passenger in a flight asked, “Are you people really doing anything for the forests?” The unconcealed taunt set me and my friends discussing with the sceptic the scenario of green governance in India. How are we managing our …
The JFM programme faces existential crisis. On the one hand, pieces of legislation like the Forest Rights Act (FRA), 2006, and the Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Areas (PESA) Act, 1996, have come into existence, giving rights to tribals and forest dwellers over forest resources and their management. On the other …
The purpose of this assessment is to identify the constraints to and opportunities for women‘s participation in REDD+ initiatives, particularly as country REDD+ readiness plans are being developed, as well as to reveal the potential impacts of gender relations on REDD+ initiatives and vice versa. Additionally, this study aimed to …
The governance of forests in India has been a complex realm to unravel. Due to the multiple claims to ownership, jurisdiction and management of forests through India's modern history, forests have remained a subject of intrigue for all those trying to understand the complex legalities that have operated within a …
Protected areas (PAs) cover a quarter of the tropical forest estate. Yet there is debate over the effectiveness of PAs in reducing deforestation, especially when local people have rights to use the forest. A key analytic problem is the likely placement of PAs on marginal lands with low pressure for …
This book by Kondas is a fine exposition of the basics of forestry and principles of tropical forest ecosystem management, with special reference to south India. A forester with four decades of field experience, he connects theory with practice easily and, in the process, brings out the essence of sustainable …
