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 …
As fires rage through pine forests, the Forest Department is hoping to combat the blaze with the help of pre-warning fire alerts for the next one week from the Forest Survey of India (FSI), a first of its kind initiative at minimising loss. Even though the delayed onset of summer …
NEW DELHI: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) images of the past ten days show large parts of India are dotted with fires, stretching across Uttar Pradesh (UP), Madhya Pradesh (MP), Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and even some southern states. In sweltering summer, these fires are intensifying heat and causing black carbon …
Navi Mumbai: Two major forest fires were reported in Kharghar and Belapur, ironically within 48 hours of the Earth Day celebrations. While the first fire was observed atop Kharghar hill on Monday, the second fire broke out on Tuesday evening at Parsik Hills in Belapur CBD. Fire brigade personnel from …
Maharashtra's own valley of flowers, the UNESCO world natural heritage site at Kaas in Satara district now faces a new threat — vandals. Since December-end, the plateau, which is a bio-diversity hotspot and sees the flowering of rare and endemic flora, has seen instances of forest fires, the latest of …
With less 33 per cent forest cover, Jammu and Kashmir does not figure among the top 15 green states in India. As per the latest study by the Forest Survey of India, titled ‘India State of Forest -2017’, only 15 states in the country made it to the list of …
The National Green Tribunal has directed the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change to finalise the National Policy on Forest Fire within two weeks, after noting that forest fires generally occur in the month of April. A Bench headed by NGT acting chairperson Jawad Rahim said, “Though we have …
NAINITAL: With the onset of summer, and the threat of forest fires looming large, the state government has allocated Rs 1.5 crore to 3700 van panchayats (bodies of villagers residing near forests) for fire fighting in their area. However, panchayat representatives say that the amount is too less, as each …
An inaccessible fire on the upper slopes of Table Mountain near Kirstenbosch, has forced firefighters to abandon their fire trucks and hike up the mountain instead. City of Cape Town Fire and Rescue spokesperson Theo Layne said that the large vegetation fire, which was reported on Monday afternoon, had not …
MADURAI: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has sought status report from the State government on the causes and the action taken in the Kurangani fire mishap that claimed 23 lives. A Delhi-based senior advocate Rajiv Dutta approached the National Green Tribunal submitted that the trekking was carried out in the …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Forest fires in the country, 02/04/2018. The details of State/Union Territory wise number of forest fire alerts reported by Forest Survey of India, Dehradun, a subordinate organization of this Ministry, during the last three years are given in Annexure-I. According to the India State …
Balangir: A fire has been ravaging forests in Boudh for the past three days. The fire has spread in Kantamal, Puruna katak, Madhapur and Manamunda forest divisions. People living in the area have expressed concerns that forest fires have become a regular feature every summer. Senior forest officials, however, claim …
Aerosols play an important role in climate change processes. Among the various aerosols, black carbon (BC) has been recognized as the second most important anthropogenic agent for climate change and the primary tracer for adverse health effects caused by air pollution. The increasing concentration of BC in the atmosphere has …
Deforestation and draining of the peatlands in equatorial SE Asia has greatly increased their flammability, and in September–October 2015 a strong El Niño-related drought led to further drying and to widespread burning across parts of Indonesia, primarily on Kalimantan and Sumatra. These fires resulted in some of the worst sustained …
845 cases of forest fires already reported this year, reveal forest officials Prolonged dry spell and rising temperature has set off alarm bells for the forest department over forest fires, which cause losses to the tune of crores every year in summer months in the state. Forest officials revealed that …
Denying a media report that alerts of the Forest Survey of India, in connection with the recent Kurangani forest fires in Tamil Nadu, did not reach the state's forest department, the environment ministry today said two such alerts were issued. Denying a media report that alerts of the Forest Survey …
MUMBAI: As many as six forest fires were reported in Sanjay Gandhi National Park and Thane ranges since Tuesday evening. “A total of six forest fires were reported on Tuesday, including a major blaze at Mulund’s Yogi Hill area. By 8pm last night, the Mulund fire was brought under control …
Over 100 civil society organisations from 15 states highlight the loopholes in the Centre’s draft National Forest Policy 2018 and demand withdrawl of this draft National Forest Policy, 2018 The overall objective and goal of the present policy is to safeguard the ecological and livelihood security of people, of the …
MADURAI: Two groups of 37 trekkers, including 26 women and three children, got trapped in a forest fire in the Kurangani hills near Bodi in Theni district on Sunday. Preliminary reports said five of them are dead and some are missing. However, the Theni administration has ruled out any deaths …
2017 was one of the worst years on record for fires in Europe, with over 800,000 hectares of land burnt in Portugal, Italy and Spain alone. As the world gets warmer and Europe's land gets drier, fires are set to get even worse - and not just for the hottest …
BENGALURU: Last year, a guard in Bandipur died in a forest fire. On Saturday, a forest officer was killed by an elephant when he was inspecting a blaze in the DB Kuppe forest range near Kabini. 50 hec In the first 34 days of this year, fire alarms from Karnataka …
