Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Ram Lakhan Singh Vs State of Jharkhand & Ors dated 14/10/2014 regarding deforestation and the encroachment of the government lands, Jharkhand.
The national animal, tiger, has all but disappeared from the newest state in the country. The situation is so alarming that wildlife officials say there is a very real danger of the tiger going locally extinct in Telangana in the next two or three years. In the latest census conducted …
KATHMANDU: The Environment Protection Committee of Parliament has decided to ask the Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation about the status of utilisation of the forest development fund. A meeting which held on Monday decided to gather information from the ministry regarding the current situation of income and employment opportunity …
LARKANA/SUKKUR: Some 12,000 acres of forest land in Larkana district and over 5,000 acres in Sukkur district is under the occupation of unauthorised people and the forest department is unable to retrieve it. This emerged at separate meetings of the respective public vigilance committees constituted recently on the orders of …
Thirteen countries with wild tiger populations agreed on Tuesday to take part in a global count to establish how many of the critically endangered big cats are left and improve policies to protect them. Experts say that although the tiger population is thought to have remained stable over the last …
HC orders government to clear KNP encroachments State Environment and Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain on Tuesday informed that there was no encroachment in the notified areas of the Kaziranga National Park, but admitted that the additional areas of the park are witnessing some amount of encroachment. The additional areas meant …
Much to the relief of hundreds of people who use the Andheria Mod-Mahipalpur road daily to access Gurgaon and IGI airport, the public works department has received a go-ahead from the NGT to resume work on expansion of the road. Work was stalled in February 2012 after PWD’s contractor allegedly …
The National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) will roll out plans to expand forest areas within the next three months as part of its efforts to combat forest encroachment nationwide. The issue was raised at yesterday's NCPO meeting, chaired by army chief-of-staff Aksara Kerdpol, who is also director of …
The decision of the state pollution control board to bring down the distance between quarrying sites and residential areas to 50m (from 100m) will not only impact the health of people staying in the vicinity but will also maximize the area of illegal quarries that are currently operating along the …
In a major development, Japan has agreed to cooperate with Uttarakhand in improving the health of forests in the Himalayan state. As per the loan agreement, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), an agency of the Japan Government, will invest Rs 807 crore to fund a project titled Uttarakhand Forest …
Navi Mumbai: Forest officials have put up a beat chowky and issued eviction notices to over 206 slum dwellers, who set up their homes on forest lands in Rabale. Officials are also patrolling the landslide-prone area and warning residents against venturing there. But residents are reluctant to move out. "We …
Kailali, Aug. 7: Nearly 22,000 hectares of forest area has been encroached upon in Kailali district. Kailali district has the biggest forest area, 62 percent forest area, among 75 districts in the country with. The District Forest Office, Kailali, said the forest area was encroached upon in different parts of …
Environmentalists are concerned about the rising incidents of elephants raiding farms for food and other conflict situations with humans in Uttarakhand. They point out that decrease in fodder species in the jungles, human encroachments and crop patterns are influencing the movement of elephants and exacerbating the human-pachyderm conflict which could …
LARKANA: Over 12,000 acres of forest land in Larkana division could not be retrieved from encroachers despite a strong will and determination expressed by the provincial government and completion of all legal formalities to take on the occupants. The forest department, under immense pressure from the government, identified both the …
Miners And Quarry Lobby Eat Into Green Zones While 14 forest divisions in the state have lost 1,00,078 acres of forest land, thanks to private individuals making systematic encroachments on forests bordering farmlands and residential localities the department has failed to take any action till date. The quantum of …
India has no more than 3.3 lakh s land under real forests, less than number claimed by the Ministry ronment and Forest (MoEF) in th est survey released last week. Among other impacts, low for might be a contributing factor rains as is the case so far this year. The …
According to the ‘India State of Forest Report 2013’, 627 sq km of forest cover has decreased in the Northeastern States from 2011 to 2013 GUWAHATI: Although the Northeastern States are rich in forest resources and have a considerable amount of green cover, the region, of late, has witnessed decrease …
PUNE: The state has lost about 1,400 hectare (14sqkm) forest cover between 2011 and 2013 to encroachments, according to the latest 'India State of Forest Report (ISFR) 2013' released by the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF). While Madhya Pradesh has the largest forest area, that is 77,522 sq …
At a time when the country has recorded an increase of 5,871 sq km in its forest cover in the past two years with West Bengal alone contributing 60% of the total rise, Maharashtra lost 14 sq km forest area (1400 hectares) in the last two years, which is equivalent …
