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 …
Federal ownership and management of forests began with the Forest Reserve Act of 1891 (also known as the Creative Act) that created forest reserves to protect against excessive logging. In 1905, Congress established the fs under the department of agriculture. It was given the task of managing the national forests …
this is an amazing story. A story that shows that India can start eradicating poverty very fast and very cheaply. This is the story of the degradation and the regeneration of Jhabua - a poor tribal district of Madhya Pradesh bordering Gujarat. In 1985, when I first visited the district, …
the ecological carnage that Jhabua has witnessed in the last five decades is sporadically mentioned in official records. Elder residents, however, remember how the dense forests once enveloped the district. "Hardly 60 years ago, my home was surrounded by dense forests," says 90-year-old Dholji of Samoi village. "The forests belonged …
the pebbles in the fields have become potatoes in the Hathipawa microshed of Jhabua district. In Phoolgaodi village, the villagers are celebrating the Year as the year of the Grass. In 40 ha of degraded government land, the watershed mission took up pasture development, where the production of more than …
When he was the irrigation minister in Madhya Pradesh, Digvijay Singh realised that big dams would only bring him unwanted unpopularity and fail to solve the problems of the largely tribal people of his state. "I realised that big dams were not going to help achieve sustainable growth," he said …
The marriage of Joint Forest Management (JFM) with watershed treatment under one mission was the touchstone for recovery of Jhabua. Even before the guidelines for watershed management were issued by the ministry of rural development, Government of India, in late 1995, the mission had commenced with the formation of 20 …
the predator management programme in the managed forests of the us state of Alaska has aroused an age-old ecological debate. A report prepared by the National Research Council, the principal operating arm of the us National Academies of Sciences and Engineering, says that wildlife managers in Alaska may be able …
it was a plea from the heart, but the Minister's portfolio specified a different agenda. Saifuddin Soz, the minister for forests, was prepared to deal with pleas to save trees and wildlife. Face to face with one of the casualties of his ministry's conservationist policies, he fumbled for a reply. …
even as commercial logging is taking a high toll of usa 's national forests, the us forest service has approved a new management plan for the great Tongass national forest in southeast Alaska. The plan awaits the approval of the agriculture secretary Dan Glickman. The plan would allow more logging …
how does one judge the success of a forestry project? By the sight of trees on the land and equally importantly by the fact that they have been raised by poor rural women. To us at Self Employed Women's Association ( sewa ) (an Ahmedabad-based voluntary organisation), these are the …
A: More questions than answers While the forest policy churned out by the government is not being implemented properly, reports on forests only tend to contradict themselves FOREST management practices in India at present could be said to be just a little short of hitting the nadir. The forest policy …
In mid-1984, the National Remote Sensing Agency had published two sets of forest cover data, one for the period 1972-75 and another for the period 1980-82. This data shocked the nation because it revealed that during the span of these seven years, the country had lost 1.3 million hectares of …
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) had sent this analysis based on the data provided by the Forest Survey of India and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, to several prominent individuals and government and non-government office-holders requesting them to forward their comments on the article. …
SEVERAL other issues gradually begin to emerge as the FAO data on the natural forest cover in India is further analysed. Unfortunately, after the old 1980 FAO data for India, FAO has not produced comparative data for 1990. In other words, the total undisturbed forest area in the country in …
For the state of forest reports to move away from being a smokescreen on India's forest cover and become a tool for enlightenment and intelligent decision-making, they must provide better classified forest cover data. First, the area under plantations and natural forests needs to be clearly separated out. Second, the …
THE FAO assessment claims that in 1990, India had a forest cover of 70.63 mha, of which 51.73 mha were natural forests and plantations another 18.90 mha. A similar FAO study regarding the 1980 forest cover had claimed that then India had a forest cover of 60.42 mha of which …
The Global Forest Convention will not only result in strained North-South relations but will also lead to disastrous forest management, if the past experience of bureaucratising forest operations is any indication. It is vital to ask the question whether it is possible to set universal rules for sustainable forest management, …
the director general of the Indian Council for Forestry Research and Education (icfre) in Dehra Dun, B N Gupta, recently stressed the need for disseminating correct information on issues related to forest policy. While addressing the International Workshop on Forest Research in Conservation of Natural Forests that began at the …
