Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
There is mounting concern about the scale of logging in Romania's remote forests A fierce debate has erupted over a new forestry code in Romania aimed at protecting unique wildlife habitats and controlling the logging industry. This month thousands of Romanians took to the streets to demand action against dubious …
Mangrove crusader and environmentalist Kallen Pokkudan is slowly giving a concrete shape to his long-cherished green dream a school to train the young generation about the importance of mangrove conservation. Probably this is the first such institute in the country, he says without any claim. Though there are umpteen organizations, …
Apple is carving out a status for itself as a forest defender. That’s the role the electronics giant has assumed in an effort to increase the sustainable forestry pulp and paper supply that it needs for packaging. On Monday, Apple announced a plan to work with the World Wildlife Fund …
Indonesia’s president Joko “Jokowi” Widodo extended the country’s partial forest-clearing moratorium on Wednesday, the day of its expiration, leaving largely intact a policy civil society groups had demanded be strengthened. Environment and forestry minister Siti Nurbaya said the government greatly appreciated the calls from organisations such as Greenpeace, Walhi, Kemitraan, …
UNITED NATIONS - Pakistan Wednesday told the United Nations that it had achieved the Millennium Development Goal environmental sustainability target of 12 per cent protected areas and was working to increase forest cover to 6 per cent. In addition, Climate Change Minister Mushahidullah Khan also said that Pakistan was promoting …
More than half the world’s mangroves have been lost over the last century but all of those surviving in Sri Lanka, one of their most important havens, are now to be protected in an unprecedented operation. The organiser of the project, the biggest of its kind, see the role of …
Calabar — With Nigeria losing over 500,000 hectares of forest yearly to deforestation, experts have called for the repeal of the Land Use Act in the country. Executive Director, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria, (ERA/FoEN) Dr.Godwin Uyi Ojo, in an inception workshop on "Community Mobilization and Resistance Against …
The Environment and Forestry Ministry’s deputy for environmental damage control and climate change, Arief Yuwono, said the government may issue another presidential instruction (Inpres) to extend a moratorium on new forest permits. Despite calls to issue a regulation that carries more weight as a stronger deterrent to agroforestry companies, he …
BENGALURU: Yet again, infrastructure work is taking a toll on the city's shrinking green cover. Close to 90 trees on Platform Road, west Bengaluru, are set to face the axe, with 15 already felled since Sunday. BBMP has started chopping trees near Okalipuram junction to make way for the 8-lane …
The Brazilian rainforest could be effectively nationalised under a draft bill being considered by the country’s MPs. The proposed legislation would recognise the sovereignty of Brazil over the Amazon’s natural resources and set up a national Amazonian policy council with the aim of enshrining environmental protection and regulating economic activities …
The Ogiek and other indigenous communities will now be allowed back to forests for activities the government deems compatible with conservation. The plan has been mooted under the National Forest Programme (NFP), and is spearheaded by the Ministry of Environment. "The government is committed to conservation of forests resources while …
PESHAWAR: Adviser to Chief Minister on Environment Ishtiaq Urmar on Monday told the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly that the provincial government has approved the Scientific Management Policy for protection of forests in the province. He was replying to the question of JUI-F MPA Zarin Gul during the question-hour in the provincial …
A moratorium on land conversion begun during former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s administration in 2011 has not yet been effective to save peat forests in Riau, as slash and burn practices to clear areas for plantations in the province have continued to occur. In Sumber Jaya village, Siak Kecil district, …
ISLAMABAD: Forests being cut in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir territory by the timber mafia will bring the looming water crisis in the region nearer, warned an official of the territory. “Every year the criminal activity adds 5,000 acres of barren land to the 500,000 acres already denuded of trees,” …
Federal Minister for Climate Change, Senator Mushahid Ullah Khan, has assured all provincial forest departments of all-out support in every possible form for increasing area under forest in the country. "Although the forest has become a provincial subject after the 18th constitutional amendment, unprecedented significance, the importance of forest resources …
A toolkit developed by leading plantation companies and NGOs including Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) and Unilever has been launched to help companies end deforestation in their supply chains. The High Carbon Stock (HCS) Approach Steering Group developed the toolkit, backed by Greenpeace and WWF, to enable the widespread implementation …
The West Papuan provincial administration is preparing a regional bylaw to designate West Papua a conservation province, an official said Monday. “The bylaw is being worked out before being submitted to the West Papua Legislative Council for deliberation,” West Papua administration secretary Nataniel Mandacan said as quoted by Antara news …
Hundreds of projects like hospitals await forest clearance While hundreds of projects await forest clearance, the government has revised guidelines for private projects such as hospitals and health institutions for diversion of reserved forests (RFs), demarcated protected forests (DPFs) and undemocratic protected forests (UPFs) for non-forest use. Government projects, including …
Norms for project: Forest Department officials say clearance under the Forest Conservation Act and approval of the National Board for Wildlife must be obtained before the Mekedatu dam project is set in motion. The State government may be resolute in its decision to build a dam across the River Cauvery …
As part of its effort to improve the ease of doing business and ensure predictable and expeditious forest clearances, the environment ministry will discuss changes to the Forest Rights Act with state environment and forest ministers in early April. While the environment ministry wants to simplify the process, the tribal …
