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 …
A temporary suspension has been clamped on the licence of a pipeline builder in Ecuador by the country's environment ministry. The ministry has said that until the company repairs damages near a protected forest, the licence would remain revoked. The ministry took the decision after construction work caused damage in …
The women of Dengajharia non-descript village in Orissahave broken through ages of gender and caste oppression to pioneer a revolutionary forest protection movement in their village. When the men called it quitsit was the women from this village in Nayagarh district who took up cudgels. The once densely forested areas …
The festivities of January 1, 2002, signified the sealing of a pact between the Kerala government and the Adivasi Dalit Samara Samithi (agitation council) on October 16, 2001. The agreement guarantees allotment of one to five acres (around .5-2 hectares) of land to all landless tribal families in the state …
for thousands of years now, a stumpy tree prized for its heartwood and sandal oil, has been a source of pride for India. Yes, it is none other than the sandalwood tree. However, indiscriminate harvesting and rampant poaching have left the once luxuriant stands in shambles. It is feared that …
for years the rainforests of Assam have suffered the ignominy of isolation and neglect. Attempts are now underway to conserve this national heritage with active public participation. As a measure of this enterprise, a three-day festival rejoicing the cultural and spiritual links between these rainforests and the local communities was …
Environment protection as it exists today is more in the nature of response to a public outcry over government apathy. When the Indian law makers fashioned the constitution, little did they envisage the need for environmental legislation. The adoption of the great political document in 1950 was, therefore, sans any …
An emergency fund to pay for forest protection is in the pipeline in China. According to the Chinese government, the first stage will involve a one-billion-yuan package supplied by the Finance Ministry for maintaining 13.3 million hectares of forests in 11 provinces this year. Logging has been banned in ecosensitive …
participants from over 20 countries gathered in Bali, Indonesia, from September 11-13, 2001, to strategise on how to battle the myriad of problems of forest management, including illegal logging on a national and international scale. Officially known as the Forest Law Enforcement and Governance (fleg) East Asia Ministerial conference, the …
The government of Pakistan's Punjab province has decided to amend its Forest Act of 1927. This is being done to update the law in accordance with the requirements of the modern forest conservation practices. For this purpose a committee, comprising two conservators of the forest department, has been constituted. The …
THE Gujarat government has robbed Gir sanctuary of its tranquillity this monsoon, sparking off a furore amongst environmentalists. It has opened up a 10-km long road running through the sanctuary to facilitate pilgrimage to the Patla Mahadev temple, which is located inside the protected area. The road usually remains closed …
International forests conservation activities should target 15 countries that have the best prospects for continued existence of their green cover, states a recent report of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). "Short of a miraculous transformation in the attitude of people and governments, the Earth's remaining closed-canopy forests and their associated …
For the first time, a timber company has voluntarily given up its harvesting rights for the conservation of forests. Congolaise Industrielle des Bois ( cib ), a German logging company, has given up its lease on a tract of swamp-fringed rainforest in the Congo Republic. cib president Hinrich L Stoll …
ARNAB KUMAR HAZRA Decrease in forest cover not only results in declining timber output for industries but also threatens global reserves of biodiversity, damages the carbon sinks that absorb greenhouse gases, degrades forest ecosystems and most importantly, jeopardises the well being of tens of millions of forest dependent people. Especially …
the Madhya Pradesh government would like to forget it. The residents of Dewas district, however, will remember it for the rest of their lives. Four people were killed in a confrontation between the administration and the tribal people at Mehendikheda village, about 100 km from the district headquarters of Dewas, …
India's forest cover has been showing a rapid decline. With community participation and social forestry being alien concepts the government sponsored conservation drives were unable to touch the chord of success. To ensure better co-operation, the joint forest management ( jfm ), programme was proposed by the ministry of environment …
INDIA might be the software superpower but its remote villages still remain caught in a time warp where the effects of modernistion have not yet filtered down. Even after 54 years of independence, the rhetoric of development and conservation rings hollow without the people's participation in development schemes. Here in …
the Union ministry of environment and forests has proposed to set up a forest development agency on the lines of district rural development authority ( drda ). Funds from the Centre for Forests and Wildlife Conservation and afforestation programmes will be provided through the agency instead of the state governments. …
Jardhargaon village, Tehri Garhwal district. Uttar Pradesh. Uttar Pradesh. The village comprising 3,000-odd people indulged in indiscriminate felling till the 1970s. That was when the Chipko movement made headlines. The villagers started protecting whatever was left. They formed a forest protection committee or the van suraksha samiti , which set …
Medha Lekha. Gadchiroli district. Maharashtra. This little village of 400-odd people belonging to the Gond tribe spreads over 1,900 hectares, of which 80 per cent is forestland. Till the 1960s, the people managed the area, after which the government stepped in. The forests became a source of state revenue. A …
There would be no timber left for industrial use in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) after 2025 if unabated over exploitation of timber continues, reveals the Provincial Forest Resource Inventory (PFRI), which was conducted by a German consortium. The PFRI findings reflect that a seven-year ban on forest harvesting …
