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 …
Nature cannot offer services without payment anymore The dejected eyes of Kartar Chand Rana, 52, panned the breached checkdam in his village, Kuhan. As head of the gram vikas samiti he ordered the breaking of the embankment of the very dam that fed his half hectare land until last year. …
This conference will address the challenges posed by climate change on biodiversity and food security in relation to sustainable management. It envisages bringing policy planners and researchers from the South Asian region to a common platform to share knowledge and experience, so as to progress towards a sustainably developed society. …
The species diversity and richness indices in JFM managed and adjacent scrub forests of Doni indicates the success of JFM approach in Karnataka. The Importance Value Index, Shannon and Simpson's diversity indices were analyzed for both JFM managed and adjacent scrub forests. The results inferred that, the proper protection from …
Sustainability of forest management comes through community participation at all levels of intervention from planning, intervention and monitoring. There should be a bottom-up approach in microplanning, which requires mobilization of the community to participate in all forestry related interventions and also continuous monitoring.
This paper outlines certain ideas of forest conservation and sustainable management ingrained in pre-historic India. Apparently, both productive as well as protective aspects of forest vegetation were emphasized during the Vedic period (` 4500 and 1800 BC; c. 8000-1000 BC - eds.) In particular, the religious texts such as Aranyaks …
Mt. Cameroon, part of the Cameroon Highlands ecoregion, is the highest peak in West/Central Africa. The Cameroon Highlands is a biodiversity hotspot and its fertile volcanic soil has also made it a hotspot for both subsistence and commercial agricultural activities since the late 19th century. The inhabitants
The objective of this report is to determine the impacts and vulnerabilities of forests and the forest sector to climate change and if corresponding policies and instruments have been implemented to promote the adaptation of forests and the forest sector. This was achieved through the analysis of 95 National Communications …
This National Forest Policy is framed at a time of rapidly changing political events in Bhutan. The change in overall governance from monarchy to a democratic governance, continued decentralisation and devolution are themes that will impact on many aspects of forest planning and development. Many of the policies discussed below …
Pune, September 23 Pointing out the lack of sufficient experts in the Pune Tree Authority (PTA) not providing enough voice in stopping the loss of green cover, non-governmental organisations Pune Tree Watch and Parisar have urged Municipal Commissioner Praveensinh Pardeshi to appoint an expert in the vacant post in the …
Bangalore, DHNS: At the end of a three-day summit of the Akhil Bharatiya Karyakarta Sammelan on Sunday, Karnataka Home Minister V S Acharya said that Forestry laws prevented them from providing basic amenities to the Vanavasis. Even amenities like education, health and sanitation were denied as no serious efforts have …
The Maharashtra Forest Policy 2008 aims at raising forest cover in the state to a minimum of 33% (101.54 lakh hectares) of total land, as per the recommendations of the Planning Commission and the National Forest Policy, 1988. At present, the forest area in the state is around 20 per …
Not glitz but green is the need of Ahmedabad city now. The soothing comfort of trees and green canopy are sorely missed by people who would want to walk in the greens for respite front the concrete jungle that the city is becoming. Over the years, the city's green cover …
Wanton usage of forest land in the name of development has destroyed efforts towards community-led measures for protection and conservation in Orissa. The laxity in framing adequate environmental laws and the flouting of even the existing laws have had disastrous effects on the livelihoods of forestdwelling people in the state.
