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 …
Sirhind/ Bassi Pathana: After the inclement weather, fire has destroyed wheat crop and stubble on hundreds of acres of land this season in Fatehgarh Sahib and adjoining areas. A visit to Bassi Pathana, Sirhind, Khamano, Amloh and Mandi Gobindgarh blocks of the district revealed that crop worth lakhs has already …
A number of trees, plants and saplings were reduced to ashes after fire erupted in Pai Forest, 10 kilometres from Sakrand, on Tuesday. The fire spread engulfed around eight acres of the forest and severally affected eucalyptus, Babbur and Kandi trees. Shaheed Benazirabad Divisional Forest Officer Zafar Wassan told Dawn …
Panchkula: The claims of the district authorities to chalk out a long-term strategy to check fires in the forest areas have fallen flat with the onset of summer as fire incidents were reported from different parts of the district today. While more than six hactares of forest was destroyed in …
Alaskan Inuits, Australian aborigines and Pygmies from Cameroon have a message for a warming world: native traditions can be a potent weapon against climate change. At a summit starting Monday in Anchorage, Alaska, some 400 indigenous people from 80 nations are gathering to hone this message in the hope that …
Australia plans to increase arson penalties to 25 years in jail after deadly bushfires two months ago which killed 173 people and engulfed entire communities, national and state legal lawmakers said on Friday. The Feb. 7 "Black Saturday" fires, driven by cyclonic winds, destroyed more than 2,000 dwellings and left …
P. Oppili CHENNAI: The State Forest Department has taken up the work of monitoring and mitigating fires in forest areas with the help of remote sensing and GIS technologies. Under the programme, every day, the department gets two satellite images showing fires in various parts of the country. The authorities …
AIZAWL, March 22: Environmentalists in Mizoram have expressed concern that forest fires trigerred by jhum burning are threatening the lives of hundreds of wild creatures. The Aizawl-based Association for Environment Protection (ASEP) informed that village leaders had apprised of a recent forest fire in Hmunzawl in south-east Mizoram which killed …
The fires damaged hundreds of acres of forest. No casualties or loss of livestock reported. Thimphu Hongtsho fire destroyed 500 acres Genekha fire ravaged 400 acres Haa Fire near Janadingkha lhakhang in Katsho gewog , damaged forty acres of blue pine Punakha Fires in Limbukha and Mendrelgang damaged 50 acres …
From his lookout atop an 80- foot-tall tree, Gopal could see the forests in three states burning simultaneously last fortnight. Even though fires are not unusual at this time of year in the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve (NBR)
Mumbai: Forest dept says fire was doused in half-an-hour, no animal injured A fresh fire broke out at the tiger safari enclosure in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) on Wednesday evening, but was extinguished soon, said D Rathod, superintendent of lion/tiger safari. About half-an-acre within the enclosure was gutted …
Solan: In preventive action against possible forest fires, the Forest Department has launched a campaign to educate masses about safety measures needed. Contact programmes to spread awareness about the Himachal Pradesh Forests (protection from fire) Rule, 1999, are being organised, with the help of panchayats and mahila and yuvak mandals. …
Jamshedpur, March 17: The state forest department has involved 82 villages in the Dalma range to check forest fires this summer. Each village has been allocated Rs 10,000 for appointing fire watchers at strategic locations in the deciduous forest, which witnessed an inferno recently. The fire was caused due to …
Gangtok: In a bid to arrest the outbreak of forest fire across Sikkim, the state forest department on Monday outlawed the kindling of fire in private or on any type of land in the state. A notification was issued by the state forest department to this effect under clause(d) of …
Gangtok: At least ten forest fires broke out across Sikkim since Saturday as police and fire services personnel battled to put off the blaze which gutted forest cover of an estimated 25 hectares of land at Raksang. Forest department officials said blazes, triggered by prevailing dry weather, broke out in …
GENEVA - Much like over-exposed banks, many countries have ignored big risks from natural hazards and must now take urgent steps to protect people from disasters, a United Nations official said on Thursday. Margareta Wahlstrom, U.N. assistant secretary-general for disaster risk reduction, said that governments should encourage "more wise behavior" …
Due to failure of winter rain and continuous dry spell over the past several months, the Forest Department here has started a campaign to check forest fires in the area. Apart from mobilising a force of more than 400 forest personnel, active cooperation of villagers living in fringe areas of …
