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 …
Maddur (Mandya dist): Fire has destroyed nearly 60 acres of forest at Maradevanahlli Social forests in Kesthur range of the taluk, recently. The social forest near Maradevanahalli destroyed in fire in Maddur taluk recently. Dh photo It is said that the fire was noticed around 1 pm. The fire has …
Forest fires are calamity that causes damage to the forest economy which is considerably greater than all damages caused by the harmful insects and diseases. The study area is prone to fire because of the presence of dominant species of pines which are highly susceptible to fires due to the …
Sprouting shoot biomass of five tree species in the oak forest was measured at the end of the first and second year with different stump diameter and height (cm), and site quality (unburnt and burnt). Original Source
A sudden fire that erupted in the Piduruthalagala forest reserve yesterday destroyed two acres of forest land, Nuwara Eliya Disaster Management Center Spokesman Erandana Hemawardena told the Daily News. The fire had broken out around 1pm yesterday in the Piduruthalagala forest reserve which belongs to Hawaeliya West Grama Niladari Division …
A large number of birds and animals as well as thousands of valuable medicinal shrubs and trees have perished in a fire that has enguled the Doddahotte Ranganathaswamy Hills in Santhenahalli near Holalkere in Chitradurga district. The fire has been raging for some days now, and it has claimed numerous …
Aizawl, Feb 1 : With dry season closing in, the Mizoram Government has sounded fire alarm across the state. The State-level fire prevention committee has appealed to the Mizos to be cautious about forest fire with the arrival of dry season which is a period for traditional Jhum burning. The …
KALPETTA: An instance of wildfire that destroyed more than 100 hectares of grass land on the Chembra peak, home to unique flora and fauna, in the Kottappadi section of the Meppadi range of forests under the South Wayanad Forest Division, was brought under control in the early hours of Tuesday. …
TIRUPATTUR: The Forest Department has formed teams in various ranges of the Tirupattur forest division to keep an eye on man-made forest fires. Forest areas, which have been identified as vulnerable to fire, will be given additional attention. Conservator of Forests, Vellore circle, A.V. Venkatachalam, said fire protection squads had …
The government has implemented several schemes to protect the Western Ghats, which is one of the 18 biodiversity hotspots in the world. However, the Shola Forests of the Western Ghats are being destroyed by the wildfire. Several Shola Forests were destroyed in the district due to wildfire. The Forest Department …
KATTAPPANA: The wildfire that destroyed 10 hectares of grasslands in Koottakal and Choriyanthandu areas of the Idukki Wildlife Sanctuary was brought under control on Monday by the joint efforts of forest officials, activists of the Eco-Development Committee (EDC) and a Fire and Rescue team from Cheruthoni. According to official estimates, …
As all bamboo trees in forests of Koppa taluk have bloomed fully at a time, there is apprehensions that the crop may be perished completely. Fully bloomed bamboo plants at forest in Koppa taluk. DH PhotoThe flowering of bamboo leads to mass change in the environment and also leads to …
The Kerala Forest Department will suggest a ban on vehicular traffic through forest routes and restrictions on pilgrims' inflow into the Sabarimala temple in the wake of the Pulmedu accident that claimed 102 lives, informed sources said. The vehicular traffic along the hardly five-metre-wide forest route to Pulmedu shot up …
Fuel moisture is an important determinant of fire behaviour. Changes in climate will result in changes in fuel moisture and this will impact fire management by modifying the length and severity of the fire season and by changing opportunities for prescribed burning. This paper aims to examine the effect of …
MODIS hotspot data from NASA have now become a standard means of evaluating vegetation fires worldwide. Remote sensing is the most effective tool for large countries like Russia because it is hard to obtain exact, detailed forest fire data. Accumulated MODIS hotspot data of the nine years from 2002 to …
In 1996, the National Remote Sensing Center (NRSC) began using NOAA-AVHRR data for fire monitoring in Mongolia. It expanded its detection technology with the addition of TERRA and AQUA MODIS data, giving it a spatial resolution of 250 m as of 2008, and developed a related methodology and technology for …
It is well known that at least 20 million of Indonesia's people were directly or indirectly affected by the 1997/1998 Indonesian forest and field fires, where 10-11 million acres of forest and fields burnt.
The seasonal variability of biomass open burning activities in the Greater Mekong sub-region (GMS) with focus on carbon monoxide (CO) and total particulate matter or aerosol (TPM) emissions was investigated in order to document the characteristics of this significant source of air pollutants in the region.
Biomass burning is an important source of greenhouse gas emissions, most importantly carbon dioxide (CO2). In this study, we used burnt area estimates derived from the L3JRC product to estimate the CO2 emissions from forests. The results suggested than an average of 2,414 sq.kms is burnt annually.
Fire plays important role in shaping ecosystem structure and function. Depending upon the complex effects of fire, it can have either beneficial or harmful effects. In this article, we briefly review the potential of satellite remote sensing data for mapping and monitoring vegetation fires.
