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 …
Jaipur:Around 29,692 hectares of forest land is under encroachment in Rajasthan, according to the latest figures of the ministry of environment and forests. While the country boasts of over 19.57 lakh hectares of encroached forest land as compared to 17,94,879 hectares in 2009. The data shows that the encroachments on …
Hyderabad: Green cover is dwindling rapidly in the state, and Hyderabad is the worst hit when compared to other cities, according to data released by the Forest Survey of India and the AP Forest department. In just one year, the state has lost tree cover of the size of Vijayawada …
GUWAHATI, March 24: According to the State Forest Department sources, about 18 per cent of reserve forest area in Guwahati has been illegally encroached upon. Around 65,894 families have encroached upon 71 per cent government land area in 16 hills in Guwahati’s Jalukbari, Gotanagar, Lankeswar, Fatasil and Gorchuk areas. Out …
Lucknow: The government is keen on increasing the green cover in the state. To realise the plantation target, forest department is planting trees on vacant forest land, roadsides, alongside canals as well as gram sabha land in collaboration with other departments. The department has planted about 3,200 ‘kanak champa’ plants …
Sets up a three-member panel to monitor execution of the order The National Green Tribunal has through a recent order banned construction of roads and cutting of trees in the Aravallis directing the parties concerned to restore the area to its original condition. The Tribunal also set up a three-member …
Mumbai: The sudden spurt in leopard attacks and increased instances of leopard spotting around Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) are primarily due to the high density of human population and concentration of small prey on the periphery, a year-long study has revealed. The study, “Mumbaikars for SGNP”, was conducted by …
Thirteen units were operating illegally and one unit was closed down in Sidhra area while 13 others including five stone crushers, have been granted ‘consent to operate’ by the State Pollution Control Board in the same area. Minister for Forests, Environment and Ecology, Mian Altaf while giving reply to the …
Guwahati: The famed abode on one-horned Indian rhino and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Kaziranga National Park in Assam has faced tough challenge to keep rampaging rhino poachers under check basically because of growing number of settlements suspected illegal migrants from Bangladesh around the Park’s core area. The poachers have …
NEW DELHI: Delhi's forest department has filed a police complaint against "unknown persons" for building three roads cutting across the Rajokri forest in the southern Ridge area. The police saw these roads last week during patrolling and had a trench dug at the entrance of one to prevent people from …
JAIPUR: The state government on Tuesday announced that all state-run commercial activities in the core areas of reserve forests would be discontinued. The announcement came during the question hour in the assembly when the opposition strongly protested the running of RTDC's Tiger Den and other lodges in the core area …
JAMMU In response to a second appeal filed by an RTI activist seeking details of the encroachment on forest land in Jammu, the State Chief Information Commissioner has directed the concerned Divisional Forest Officer to provide full information to the applicant by March 6 and also upload the information on …
Borders of Sri Lanka's World Heritage Site, Sinharaja rainforest reserve have been expanded to add over 2000 hectares of land to the forest, the Land and Land Development Ministry said today. The government has taken over 2,488 hectares of the surrounding land that has direct impact on the forest to …
Encroachment and deforestation over the years has reduced the Chhor reserve forest, which used to cover an area of 3,000 acres, to a mere fraction of its original size. Declared as a protected site by the British government in 1927, the forest contained five of the seven arid-zone plants in …
BANGALORE: Karnataka's forest cover shrunk by 797 sqkm between 2001 and 2011, in spite of massive afforestation programmes, the economic sector report of the CAG said. The several causes of destruction include encroachment and shortage of staff in the forest department. The report said 67,096 hectares of encroached forest land …
BHADRAK: Minister of forest and environment Bijayshree Routray said community forestry should be taken up in at least 150 hectares of forest land in rural areas of Bhadrak district. While attending a review meeting of the department of wildlife here on Wednesday, the minister said the district has no natural …
Jaipur: For the wildlife lover who cannot travel to Ranthambore or Sariska every now and then, the Jhalana forest area is proving to be a great alternative. The panther spotting at the forest makes up for the lack of tigers. And, if the proposal to declare the forest area as …
Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation has floated a plan of complete removal of the settlement and any other encroached forest land within five years. The plan to overcome human disturbances in the forest land and afforestation is though a challenging task, said Secretary of MoFSC Krishna Chandra Paudel. Spe-aking …
Srinagar, December 30: The state is losing its green sheen fast as the forest land has shrunk from 20,230 sq km to just 7,590 sq km as per data furnished by the state Department of Forests earlier this year. The single largest reason responsible for the depletion of green cover …
With the new year approaching, the forest department is gearing to get its boots dirty and dig trenches to safeguard its land from encroachers. With 2,232 illegal structures, incsluding shanties, huts and pucca houses, razed so far, the department has now spread its patrolling to prevent these structures coming up …
With the new year approaching, the forest department is gearing to get its boots dirty and dig trenches to safeguard its land from encroachers. With 2,232 illegal structures, incsluding shanties, huts and pucca houses, razed so far, the department has now spread its patrolling to prevent these structures coming up …
