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 …
The Orang National Park in northern Assam, believed to have about two dozen tigers, is under threat from encroachers. The encroachers have been particularly targeting the south-eastern portion of the park with the authorities resorting to lathicharge and lobbing of teargas shells to drive them away.
The environmental NGO in the state has requested Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) to cease the encroachment in the Mhadei wildlife sanctuary.
New villages springing along border From our Correspondent JORHAT, May 12: The alarming growth of human population along the border areas of Kaziranga National Park has taken a serious turn during the last few years. The growth has been alarming during the last decade, sources said. According to an official …
A recent survey has found that the famous Kaziranga National Park in Assam has the highest tiger density in the world, but conservationists have warned that it could be an indicator of habitat destruction and suggested remedial measures. 'Aaranyak', an environment watchdog, in collaboration with Assam Forest Department in a …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Opposition Leader Oommen Chandy in a letter to Chief Minister V.S Achuthanandan has demanded that there should be immediate action to protect the mangroves and the environment at Pappinissery in Kannur. ``The mangrove theme park is functioning on a 12-acre area that has a dense population of mangroves. Such …
THATTA, May 11: Around 850 acres of forest land encroached by some influential people was vacated on Tuesday by the district forest officials with the help of police. The forest department has launched a campaign for getting vacated the land in possession of influential people in Bao Purnadas, Bijora and …
Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Tuesday directed the Forest Department to stop illegal mining in the forest land, in the wake of the Supreme Court-appointed committee finding discrepancies in mining lease sketches in Bellary reserve forest area. Official sources said that the direction was given at a closed-door review …
R Krishna Das / Kolkata/ Raipur May 04, 2010, 0:18 IST Vedanta-controlled Bharat Aluminium Company (Balco) will get legal possession of 600 acres of land that it had allegedly encroached upon in Korba district of Chhattisgarh. The decision to hand over the possession of land to the aluminium major was …
Bowing to intense pressure from the Centre, the Karnataka government seems to have finally woken up to the menace of illegal mining as its officials recently raided and seized huge amounts of unaccounted iron ore from the Bellikere and Karwar ports.
The government will demarcate 25,000 acres of land in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in the next three months. This would help prevent further encroachment and identify the dwellers staying on forest or private land, the government said.
KOCHI: The Central team, which was on a three-day visit to Munnar to check whether there were violations of the forests protection laws, was not able to locate over 1,000 acres of forest land in the KDH village in Mankulam which existed in the sketch and documents. Sources said the …
Pisi Zauing MIAO, April 11: Namdapha National Park in Changlang district is the fifteenth tiger reserve in the country spread over 1985.432 sq kms of forests, interpolated with moderate to steep precipitous hills, deep valleys, rippling rivulets and a huge natural lake atop Katwai bum, popularly known as Katwai Nawng, …
JORHAT, April 5: Even as the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest has decided to take up some protection projects along the border areas of the State, observers are of the view that the projects will not be effective due to lack of proper demarcation of the State boundary. Despite …
Approaching the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, where most of the world's approximately 3000 surviving one-horned rhinos are found, one can see ramshackle structures on both sides of the road presenting an ugly sight in a verdant green canvas. They are mostly outside the core area of the world heritage …
Tirupati, March 22: Tension prevailed at B.V. Puram Gollapalle, a forest fringe hamlet near Srikalahasti, about 60 km from here, on Monday when forest department personnel tried to stop about 500 tribals led by the Communist Party of India (CPI) state secretary, Mr K. Narayana, from encroaching on forest land. …
Implementation of the Forest Act may have been dismal in Jharkhand so far, but Operation Greenhunt has made the district administrations realise that speeding up the task of distributing pattas or land documents to tribal villagers would only add teeth to the ongoing fight against Maoist rebels. In some areas, …
More than 4,85,674 hectares of forest land of Assam are under encroachment by its neghbouring states and other authorities on date, this has been published in a report of the Central Government. According to the report, Assam is on the top of the list among other states of the country …
Assam has topped the list of States in terms of encroachment in forest land, with about 4,85,674 hectares of area being occupied, the Government told the Lok Sabha today, reports PTI. Replying to a query, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said that Andhra Pradesh is in the second place with 2,68,853 …
Union minister of environment Jairam Ramesh had a lengthy inter- action with 43 MPs from 51 districts that fall under the Western Ghats region. This group from the states of Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Goa called the Parliamen- tary Group of Western Ghats MPs will meet regu- larly …
