Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Giri Gobardhan Forest Committee Vs State of Odisha & Others dated 15/05/2025. The Applicant Giri Gobardhan Forest Committee has filed the application alleging illegal felling of trees over an area of around 5 acres within the …
HYDERABAD: Nothing destroys a forest quite like a bushfire. They cause huge damage to flora and fauna. Forest fires are a major environmental hazard in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, affecting large portions of wooded area every year. As per a recent study by Hyderabad’s National Remote Sensing Center (NRSC) scientists, …
DEHRADUN: A Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report tabled in the state assembly recently has pointed at a massive lack of funds available with the state forest department to control jungle fires. The report observes that the fund crunch translates into shortage of essential fire-fighting equipment, vehicles, communication devices and …
Indonesia's environment and forestry ministry wants to extend a moratorium on issuing new licences to use primary forest and peatland in the Southeast Asian country by two years, an official said on Wednesday. The moratorium was established under the previous administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in a bid to …
India lost more than 57,000 sq km of jungles – an area larger than Himachal Pradesh - in forest fire in 2014, says India's first scientific estimation of forest fire losses. The total burnt area under vegetation cover (forest, scrub and grasslands) was 57,127.75 sq km, which in 2014 accounts …
Nainital: Forest fires broke out in Chaafi in Nainital district and Ladhiya in Champawat district and were controlled by the forest department on Wednesday. In Champawat, the blaze that started on Tuesday gutted more than five hectares of forest land while in Chaafi, a hectare of land was engulfed in …
Dehradun: In a first in the state, mock drills to tackle forest fires were held simultaneously in all 13 districts of Uttarakhand on Thursday. The exercise was conducted successfully and a report will be sent to the Centre. B D Gupta, nodal officer for forest fire management, told TOI, “The …
This study provides application of Resourcesat-2 AWiFS satellite imagery for forest burnt area assessment in India. AWiFS datasets covering peak forest fire months of 2014 have been analysed. The total burnt area under vegetation cover (forest, scrub and grasslands) of India was estimated as 57,127.75 sq. km. In 2014, 7% …
Cape Town – Firefighters in the Western Cape have responded to 17 000 fires since the start of the fire season in December, local government MEC Anton Bredell said on Monday. "Ten years ago, the Western Cape experienced an estimated 12 000 fires for the full year. Over the past …
While there were 2,489 instances of forest fires as per satellite images, the Telangana forest department listed only 234. Hyderabad: Despite lakhs of rupees in funds being spent on fire lines this year, over 312 incidents of fire are reported every day in the forests across Telangana state. According to …
An estimated 10,000 acres of forest area is suspected to have gutted in fire that erupted in Thathkola reserve forest, in the last six days. Thathkola reserve forest comes under Mudigere and Aldur range of forest and covers 25,000 acre forest land. The forest fire has entered the forests in …
Wildfires destroyed an estimated 122 700 hectares in the Western Cape at the start of 2017, says an interim report. "Our initial data shows that natural vegetation, grazing, agricultural infrastructure such as fencing and water pipelines, and a range of crops and fynbos were hardest hit," economic opportunities MEC Alan …
Fire at Kenchanakumari reserve forest in Sakleshpur taluk, Hassan district, on Vegetation on hundreds of acres of forest was gutted in a wildfire that broke out at Kenchanakumari reserve forest, in Western Ghats, Sakleshpur taluk, Hassan district, on Tuesday. As the region is a dense forest, fire tending vehicles cannot …
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has instructed the People’s Committees of all provinces and cities to increase forest-fire protection and to make it a main task during the dry season. Temperatures in the first half of the year are expected to be higher than the average of previous …
Fighting wildfires in the United States costs billions of dollars annually. Public dialog and ongoing research have focused on increasing wildfire risk because of climate warming, overlooking the direct role that people play in igniting wildfires and increasing fire activity. Our analysis of two decades of government agency wildfire records …
A fire that broke out a week ago in Bandipur destroyed hundreds of acres MYSURU:The raging forest fire that destroyed hundreds of acres in Bandipur National Park and in Biligiriranganatha Swamy Tiger Reserve for the last couple of days, has posed many challenges to both the state government and Forest …
Wildfire broke out in Kalkere range, Bandipur Tiger Reserve, on Saturday A day after fire broke out in the Kalkere range of Bandipur Tiger Reserve (BTR) killing a forest guard, fire engulfed the Gundre range on Sunday morning. The two wildfires have been captured by Nasa’s satellites. A senior Forest …
The Zomba City Council has said it is working tirelessly to stop bushfires in the district’s hills and mountain. This is according to deputy councillor for the city Davie Maunde who was speaking on Saturday after planting trees at Chipiloni hill which is in Likungwati village Traditional Authority Chikowi. The …
KOCHI: With mercury levels shooting up in several parts of the state, the Kerala forest department has activated its fire alert mechanism in forest areas and buffer zones. While officials and experts say that Kerala does not need to worry about fires of the magnitude reported in other parts of …
Hundreds of homes have been evacuated in the New Zealand city of Christchurch as a huge wildfire rages on its outskirts. A state of emergency has been declared in the city and neighbouring Selwyn District and the military has been deployed to help firefighters. At least 11 homes have already …
A U.S. weather forecaster on Thursday said La Niña has faded and neutral conditions are likely to continue in the coming months, though it noted some chance that the El Niño phenomenon may reappear as early as the Northern Hemisphere spring. The Climate Prediction Center (CPC), an agency of the …
