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 …
The Soliga tribe in the Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Hills of Chamarajanagar district of Karnataka has maintained a continuous and intimate interaction with the forest, deriving most of its basic requirements from the forests. The Soligas used to engage in shifting cultivation and collection of non-timber forest produce which was harvested …
You can't grow biofuel without cutting down trees, right? Not so, says Marcos Buckeridge, who tells Jan Rocha how Brazil can supply the world with green ethanol.
Mumbai Mangroves, a natural greenbelt or buffer zone that has the potential to protect the city from powerful rains, are depleting at a fast pace. Ahead of monsoon, the residents of a suburban area have taken it upon themselves to avoid further depletion of the greenbelt. As part of their …
JORHAT, May 7: The government dilly-dallying over declaring protected parks, reserves and sanctuaries as eco-sensitive zones as proposed by the Forest Department quite some time ago is harming the conservation efforts to a large extent. A source said, that the Kaziranga National Park, Manas Tiger Reserve, Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary, Orang …
FOREST officials from Tamil Nadu and Karnataka opi ne that shortage of manpower, especially frontline workers, has come in the way of benefits from conservation measures in the reserve forests across the country. They were interacting with wildlife conservationists at a meeting organised by The Sanctuary, The Wildlife Conservation Trust, …
DIBRUGARH, May 1: Issues big and small found place in the speeches of politicians and candidates contesting the elections, each one of them promising to solve the problems of erosion, flood and militancy. However, none deemed it important to dwell on the urgent need to conserve our forest resource and …
Unabated encroachment in vast tracts of reserve forests (RFs) has posed a danger to long-term conservation prospects in the State. Official figures alone put the encroached area at approximately 3,396 sq km. Another 159.69 km of forests under protected areas (wildlife sanctuaries and national parks) continue to be under encroachment. …
The failure of the Joint Forest Management programme since 2000 to sustain the growth in afforestation achieved during the 1990s is a cause for concern. This paper looks at the necessity of developing an effective management information system that can contribute meaningfully to the resilience of a jfm system. Identifying …
Are you interested in adopting a forest? If yes then a Pune-based NGO has given you an opportunity to sponsor or adopt Western Ghat. Applied Environmental Research Foundation (AERF) has given nature lovers an option to participate in conserving forests. The programme called
Manjunath Sullolli The Bhimgad Fort, in the village lands of Tanali, is built on a detached spur of the Sahyadris about sixteen miles south-west of Khanapur taluk of Belgaum district.
Mumbai: While the ever worsening problem of global warming and climate change has already started showing its effects, future rulers of the nation have completely ignored it. Manifestos of political parties have all the colours, but green. Almost all the political leaders have conveniently forgotten the issue and no one …
Forests and women are strongly interconnected with each other because women, particularly those living in rural areas or mountain areas, have a deep relationship with the forest ecology because they are responsible for gathering food, fuel, fodder, leaves and water for the family. Hence, women directly play an important role …
Aprimatologist, environmentalist and UN messenger of peace - that's Dame Jane Goodall for one and all. But what is she doing at a technology platform like Map World Forum, raised the brow of many a technologist at the event. When she waxed eloquent about technology in general and GIS in …
The protection of tropical forests will be one of the main pillars of the new climate agreement. For deforestation currently accounts for one-fifth of global CO2 emissions. There is disagreement over how forest conservation should be funded, however. The industrialised countries want to include it in the international emissions trade. …
Natural resources perform multiple functions as a driver, maintainer, potential exit route, and also an effective escape mechanism in the context of poverty dynamics, especially in a predominantly agrarian economy such as India. The discourse on poverty reduction however, has often overlooked some of the major concerns of natural resource …
