Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
How did you, a historian, get so deeply involved with deforestation issues? The history and culture of Uttaranchal is directly linked with its forests. I was working on the history of deforestation, and realised that the lucrative business of illegal timber trade is the single-largest cause of deforestation. Unless this …
future commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are likely to be among the most contentious issues at the eighth climate conference of parties (cop-8) to be held later this month in New Delhi. Several industrialised countries, including Denmark, Canada, Japan, Norway and the uk have indicated that they want to …
Plants are available in far-away places; women can't collect them. So we don't teach them our medicines. Gania, Medak, Andhra Pradesh Our generation will have to learn cultivation techniques from experience. There is nothing to go by. Chaturbhuj, Dudu, Rajasthan Plants that were available near the house now have to …
it is a classic case of keepers turning marauders. The Supreme Court (sc) has issued a notice to the Madhya Pradesh government over the alleged involvement of the state police in timber smuggling. The notice which was issued on September 26, 2002 was in response to an application by Damoh-based …
it is a downpour that has left most parts of central and eastern Europe submerged in misery. Over the past few weeks, unprecedented and severe storms have triggered floods in the region, claiming more than 112 lives, rendering thousands homeless and causing damage worth more than us $21.5 billion. Authorities …
Amazonian mahogany may literally be deadwood soon. Because at the current rate of deforestation, there may be no more of it in eight years. Despite these warnings, London's appeal court has allowed the import of a shipment of the precious endangered wood into the country. Two senior judges threw out …
On World Environment Day this year, the Gas Authority of India Limited (gail) spent a small fortune issuing a colour advertisement in newspapers urging us to use plastic. gail wanted us to know this: by using plastic, we would save 20 million trees matured over 10 years especially for packaging …
The Supreme Court has suggested that the forested states, which lose revenue because of the ban on felling of trees should be compensated for keeping their forests intact. Protection of the biological hotspots should be the responsibility of the country, says the court, and therefore, if the state protects its …
Amar Kanwar, an independent documentary filmmaker on social and environment issues, takes a strong stand against subtle forms of censorship from government and industry. He also urges the need for language films that can reach a wider audience. Working in Delhi for the last 12 years, many of his films, …
Bangladesh has banned tree-felling in its Sundarbans mangrove forest, which is also shared by neighbouring India. Bangladesh's forest and environment minister, Shahjahan Siraj, said: "We must protect our natural forests to balance the biodiversity.' There had been reports of illegal logging in the Sunderbans to collect timber for firewood and …
They say the eye of the storm is calm. This is what I found when I visited the epicentre of war-tensions in India, the city of Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir. This was a week when foreigners were leaving India, fearing a war, even a nuclear war, between India and …
The beautiful Valley of Flowers, known for its almost miraculous flower diversity and fecundity, is caught in a strange controversy. The point of contention: is the conservation attempt proving to be the problem rather than the solution? In 1982, the valley was notified as a national park, and livestock grazing …
in a district where not toting a double-barrelled gun or revolver is considered a violation of the dress code, the word ‘fraud’ was redefined with astounding audacity. Without firing a single shot (quite uncommon in this trigger-happy territory), three junior officials of Bijnor defrauded the government of Rs 100 crore …
on what is being seen as a red-letter day for the greens, the Supreme Court (sc) banned the felling of trees in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The apex court finally delivered its verdict earlier this month after a protracted legal battle that spawned a writ petition filed by environmental organisations. …
Residents of Gurdwara Road in Delhi's Karol Bagh succeeded in preventing the chopping down of around 90 trees that are more than 50 years old. After the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (mcd) felled four trees under a road-widening project, the people of the locality threatened to take to the streets. …
In a move that may render nearly half a million families homeless, Thailand's senate recently withheld the passage of the much-awaited community forestry bill (cfb). The proposed legislation that has been blocked was meant to hand over control of forests to the people residing in them. Instead, the country's upper …
Big No To Chips Greens are protesting against the use of native tree species to make wood chips. Recently, Greenpeace activists chained themselves to a Japanese ship docked in Chile to express their resentment. The protesters aimed to prevent the ship from loading 42,000 cubic metres of wood chips made …
the National Highway authority of India (NHAI) is all set to destroy the green canopy of trees along the Rao Tula Ram Marg near the airport in Delhi. This stretch is lined with neem, eucalyptus, seesam, peepal and badh trees. The forest department has advised the NHAI to desist from …
local community members will have the first claim over the forest produce, says the blueprint of Madhya Pradesh's new forest policy. Only after these people consume the forest produce for fodder, fuel and other domestic uses would it be exploited commercially. Forest cover would be increased throughout the state by …
