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 …
Missiles Moved Out Of Depot As Toll Rises To 52Moscow: A noxious smog choked Moscow on Friday as Russia moved to protect military and nuclear sites from the relentless spread of wildfires that have killed 52 people. The defence ministry ordered the evacuation of missiles from a depot outside Moscow …
Vladimir RadyuhinMOSCOW: Wildfires in Russia have grown to catastrophic proportions, forcing evacuation at the country's main nuclear facility, causing a steep rise in the death rate, and wiping out whole villages.The Russian nuclear agency Rosatom said it had removed all radioactive and explosive materials from the Federal Nuclear Centre near …
Recent events in Russia, one of the largest suppliers of wheat in the world, have raised concern about the current and future price of wheat and wheat-based products. This article briefly examines the issue and determines if there is in fact cause for serious alarm.
Moscow: Russian firefighters on Sunday battled the flames from spreading forest fires that have already killed 30 people, destroyed thousands of homes and mobilised hundreds of thousands of emergency workers. The emergency situations ministry said on Sunday that forest fires had engulfed more than 128,500 hectares across Russia. It mobilised …
For Bob Jackson, the most important factor in forest management is the direction, not the speed or efficiency. Results are created one day at a time. Since, they bought the land in 1970, Bob Jackson and Leo Goebel have been managing 160 acres of Douglas fir, white fir, Ponderosa pine, …
Shimla: With a satellite-based fire alert messaging system likely to be in place by next year, the forest department hopes to further bring down incidents of forest fire and, more importantly, the devastation caused by it. Even though incidents of fire has been much less as compared to last year, …
ISLAMABAD: The fire, which broke out in Margalla Hills, was extinguished by the firefighters of the Capital Development Authority Thursday night, what the CDA official said has gutted over 100 acres of the forest. The fire broke out on Wednesday evening from the military farms area near Kalinjar valley, situated …
about half of Nagzira wildlife sanctuary in Maharashtra’s Gondia district was destroyed in forest fires allegedly started by tendu leaf contractors in March and April. Conservationists working in the area accused the contractors of working hand-in-glove with forest officials. Most top officials were on leave at the time of the …
Around 500 trees of different species were destroyed after anti-social elements allegedly set a fire in the Maladidhar Van Panchayat area near Mandalsera village here. The villagers along with others worked together to control the fire and succeeding in it after four hours of toiling. According to information provided by …
Aizawl, May 6: The primitive slash and burn method of cultivation, or jhumming, in Mizoram has led to a massive destruction of forests and innumerable forest fires causing loss of human lives. The State Forest Department has attributed the disappearance of large tracts of forest every year to the jhum …
Aizawl: The primitive slash and burn method of cultivation or jhumming in Mizoram has led to massive destruction of forests and innumerable forest fires. The state forest department has attributed the disappearance of large tracts of forest every year to jhum fires that normally take place in this tiny state …
hyderabad, may 2: The AP Forest Inventory 2010, the report made by state forest officials is considered to be the first of its kind in the country. The former director general of forest survey of India, Dr D. Pandey says,
Binsar is a wildlife and forest sanctuary in Uttarakhand. It was declared a sanctuary decades ago, and as a result it is unscarred by development today. There are only five houses inside, each of which was built by the British more than a century ago. There is no electricity; water …
Summer fires in the wooded areas and grasslands of Himachal Pradesh are nothing new, but long dry spells often turn the hills into a tinderbox. This year priceless forest wealth has been destroyed in more than 400 fire incidents in April alone. A view of the forest fire adjoining the …
BHUBANESWAR: This April, Forest Survey of India recorded at least 960 incidents of forest fire in Orissa, as captured by the satellite. With mercury shooting up across the State, unleashing a prolonged dry spell, recurring outbreak of fires has wildlife, forest resources and administration at its mercy. By the admission …
Mumbai: Hundreds of birds have been feared killed and a great expanse of flora destroyed in a fire that broke out in the jungles south of Ankai fort near Manmad on Monday evening. The fire, the cause of which is not known yet, spread fast down the slope of the …
Package of measures chalked out to prevent fires YERCAUD: Officials in the Department of Forest here are facing a daunting task this year. With the sun crossing the bearable limits with scanty rain, the flora and fauna in the Shevaroyan Hills are facing the nightmare of forest fires. The Yercaud …
Of the 151 fire incidents reported in last one week, at least 95% were forest fires With the temperatures remaining nearly 10-12 degrees Celsius above normal, amid the extreme dry weather conditions, forest fires are spreading fast across the state. Nearly 150 fire incidents across six districts of the state …
The Uttarakhand Forest Department has drafted a new plan to tackle the menace of forest fires in the State, while at the same time, providing employment to the youth of the State. According to the State principal chief conservator of Forests (PCCF) Dr RBS Rawat, the Forest Department will deploy …
