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 …
a stretch of barren hilly land is called changar in Himachal Pradesh. Since it lacks irrigation, agriculture on changar is difficult. About 427 sq km land in the basin of the river Beas in Kangra district is changar . It is spread over 99 pancha yats and 570 villages where, …
eighteen environmentalists have been arrested in Vancouver, Canada, for opposing the logging of some of the remaining pristine rainforest valleys in the Great Bear Rainforests. The uk is playing a major role in forest destruction as it continues to import timber and pulp from British Columbia's ancient temperate rainforests to …
throwing the Wildlife and Forest Conservation Act to the winds, Uttar Pradesh government has authorised the construction of a road deep inside the Ramnagar forest division of the Corbett Tiger Reserve. The road running from Ramnagar to Patkot will cut through prime forests, tiger habitat and migratory corridors of elephants. …
In Brazil's Amazon, in the 30 years following the 1960s, the forests retreated before the onslaught of a government determined to hand over a land without people to its people who did not have land. Huge tracts of forest land in the Amazon vanished, sandwiched between the sawmills and the …
the Bastar forest scam in Madhya Pradesh (mp) , involving forest encroachment and felling of trees with officials' tacit support, has taken a new turn with the arrest of a social activist who was closely associated with the investigations. The activist, Ratneshwarnath , was part of the team that prepared …
The Supreme Court restrained all the state government's and their "functionaries' from allowing felling of trees in the reserved forests, even if they are diseased. The order came in the wake of a report about the state of forests in different parts of the country that showed an alarming picture. …
The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the Madhya Pradesh government after hearing a writ petition, alleging that a social activist, Ratnagar, who had prepared the tree felling report, had been arrested. The bench comprising Justice A S Anand, Justice B N Kirpal and Justice V N Khare directed …
The Madras High Court has held the state government responsible for not making sincere efforts to prevent deforestation. The Court directed to set up a Special Task Committee. Justice E Padmanabhan said it is evident from the records produced in the Court that there has been a substantial rise in …
according to The State of Forest Report 1997, released on February 6, India has lost about 5,500 sq km of forest cover in the last two years. Madhya Pradesh lost 3,969 sq km and Andhra Pradesh, 3,822 sq km. However, in Maharashtra, forest cover has increased by 2,300 sq km. …
the tribals have gone to war. The quest: regeneration of the environment. The location Jhabua, an upland in western Madhya Pradesh (mp) with an area of 6,782 sq km and a forest cover of 624 sq km. Almost 80 per cent of this forest is severely degraded or has suffered …
The white-bearded, wiry Baiga tribal of Chada village in Mandla is a sad man. " Dukh to hota hai, per kuch kar bhi nahi sakte " (It hurts, but we cannot do anything about it), he says helplessly. Baigas, the second largest tribe in the state, live in the hills …
The Supreme Court has ordered a CBI enquiry into the Bastar forest scandal that is related to illegal transfers and serious irregularities in grant of permission for felling of trees. The division bench comprising Justice J S Verma, Justice B N Kripal and Justice B N Khare expressed concern that …
in the dense forest of Amarkantak, district Shahdol, Madhya Pradesh (mp) , where the river Narmada originates, the gurgle of the stream was difficult to hear amidst the monotonous sound of axes falling on giant sal trees (Shorea robusta). But for the timely intervention of Saifuddin Soz, Union minister of …
Slow stinks of incompetence. But is the rapid tree felling by the forest department in Madhya Pradesh (mp) the answer to sal borer crisis gripping the state? The forest administration, has long been accused of incompetence by environmentalists and ngos alike. One of the measures forest bureaucrats espouse is policing …
Despite warnings from conservationists, Kaziranga became the unfortunate scene for the worst human-animal conflict over habitat in recent years. The angry people of Kaliabor, a small village some 200 km east of the state capital Guahati along the fringes of the Kaziranga national park, went on an indefinite hunger strike …
the World Bank's (wb's) keenness to promote an electricity generation project in Laos has come in for flak by non-governmental organisations. The project, slated to sell power to Thailand, is feared to spell doom for Laos' economy. The 681 mw Nam Theun 2 dam project is located on Theun river, …
The World Wide Fund for Nature ( wwf) has said that Brazil has the highest rate of destruction of forests in the world. In its recent report, it estimates that around 3.6 million hectares of forests may have been lost. This, it says, is double of what has been lost …
even as commercial logging is taking a high toll of usa 's national forests, the us forest service has approved a new management plan for the great Tongass national forest in southeast Alaska. The plan awaits the approval of the agriculture secretary Dan Glickman. The plan would allow more logging …
it is business as usual for timber traders of the Northeast despite the Supreme Court's ( sc 's) interim ban dated December 17, 1996, on felling and movement of timber. Their business flourishes under the guise of developmental work by the government, which is exempted from the ban. A prime …
