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 …
The forest at Chakaria in Cox Bazar district has been denuded. According to a report in The Bangladesh Observer influential people have undertaken construction on these lands thus destroying the valuable resources. The ministry of forests had leased out these forests in 1972, ingnoring the importance of ecological balance of …
some 250 million years ago, Europe was devastated by the great Permian extinctions which wiped out 95 per cent of the extensive conifer forests covering the land. The impact of this was more widespread than the extinction of the dinosaurs and other forms of life by the asteroid impact 60 …
chokoria Sundarban in the coastal district of Coz's Bazar in southeast Bangladesh, once a reserved and protected mangrove forest, is deserted today. The roots provided a safe shelter to the fish shrimp and aquatic reptiles. But, today, most trees, animals (such as tigers, deer and wild cats), and fish species …
The Pampa river in Kerala is slowly dying due to environmental degradation. Also known as Dakshina Ganga because of its historic relationship with the Sabarimala Temple, the river originates from the Sabari hills in the Western Ghats and flows west through the districts of Idukki, Pathanamthitta and Allappuzha. It is …
The hoolock gibbon (Hylobates hoolock) was once secure in its dense tropical monsoon forest habitat extending from the south of the Brahmaputra river in Assam to the Chindwin river in Myanmar. Not very long ago, these forests would have echoed with its spectacular call, the music to an awesome war …
according to a new report released by BirdLife International, a global wildlife group, one in eight of the world's bird species faces extinction in the next millennium because of damage to the environment. BirdLife International, representing 2.2 million people in 105 countries, said that 1,200 bird species could become extinct …
the dense foliage around the Hwange Victoria Falls in north western Zimbabwe may soon be relegated to history if several species of hardwoods continue to disappear at the present rate. The booming tourism trade and the subsequent sale of curios made of wood is posing a grave threat to indigenous …
Fifteen years ago, Brazilians did not even have a name for the lush, tropical rainforest that tumbles from seaside mountains to the ocean along much of the nation's Atlantic coast. They came up with a name just in time. The Mata Atlantica or the Atlantic rain forest, is now one …
nothing in science can account for the way people feel about orchids. Orchids seem to drive people crazy. Those who love them, love them madly, wrote Susan Orlean in Orchid Thief: A true story of beauty and obsession. However, sadly these beautiful flowers are becoming a rarity day by day, …
orissa's green cover has shrunk by 1,420 square kilometre (sq km) in the last nine years, bringing down the total forest area from 59,555 sq km in 1990 to 58,135 sq km in 1999, forest department sources said. The biannual report published by the Forest Research Institute at Dehradun in …
The country's forest cover has shrunk by a third in the last 15 years due to illegal logging, slash-and-burn farming methods and felling of trees to make way for plantation crops, according to forest officials. A study by Vietnam Forestry Scientific Institute (vfsi) reveals that natural forest now covers 28 …
The relentless drive towards blanket modernisation is proving to be the death knell for six tribes that inhabit the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The islands are home to the Great Andamanese, the Onge, the Jarawas, the Sentinelse, the Nicobarese and the Shompens. According to Kalpavriksh, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), a …
Effect of anthropogenic disturbance on habitat occupancy by tiger prey species was studied in Panna National Park (PNP), Madhya Pradesh. The study was conducted between November 1998 and April 1999. Line-transect method and pellet-count technique were used to estimate prey species abundance. Abundance estimates were used as a measure for …
Greenpeace said that Belgian timber industry officials have agreed to meet them to discuss logging practices in the central Africa nation of Cameroon. About 20 Greenpeace activists temporarily blocked the unloading of a timber shipment from Cameroon to protest what it claims are environmentally damaging logging practices. "We want to …
the Aravalli range, stretching from Palanpur in Gujarat to Delhi, divides Rajasthan into three distinct climatic regions. The Udaipur zone of the range is estimated to be around 300 million years old. It is, therefore, not surprising that the range is a unique amphitheatre of biological diversity. But with the …
Mexican environmentalists have praised government audits on illegal logging in the protected reserves of migrating monarch butterflies. The Group of 100, the country's leading ecological advocacy group, said investigations by the environment ministry had found communities in the central state of Michoacan
The stories of conquest and depredation of alang alang grass and gypsy moth show how serious the unfettered invasion of alien life forms (both zoological and botanical) can become. A native of South Asia, and a valued source of thatch, alang alang grass is a weed whose economic importance is …
soil erosion due to the fast-flowing Ravi river currents has created panic among the farmers in the Makaura Ferri and Bharial Bulge areas of Gurdaspur district in Punjab. As many as 648 hectares of fertile land has been washed away so far. To check soil erosion, the state's drainage department …
