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 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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 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 …
The civil war in Sri Lanka has taken its toll on the environment also. Millions of palmyrah trees have been destroyed in Sri Lanka's war-shattered northern province. Government officials say that about 2.5 million palmyrah trees have been felled by the army and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, mainly …
while environmentalists worry about Brazilian rainforests, thousands of acres of lush forests are being cleared away in southern Brazil to make way for tobacco cultivation and production. Brazil is the world's largest exporter of tobacco, with exports touching 282,500 tonnes in 1996, and the world's fourth largest producer after China, …
The country is struggling to prevent large-scale deforestation by people who mainly rely on charcoal and firewood for fuel. According to William Harrington, environment minister, there is an immediate need to protect the country's forests as the tree felling has reached alarming proportions. Figures show that nearly 300,000 ha of …
deforestation in the tropics is causing massive extinction of bird species. Many of these species, endemic to insular Southeast Asia, may soon be lost if rapid and effective conservation measures are not undertaken, claim ecologists. During a workshop sponsored by the Wildlife Conservation Society ( wcs ) and the Bolivia …
The smoke coming out of the south-eastern corner of the Amazon has badly affected the region, causing nosebleeds and forcing airports to close for days. The countless fires in the Amazon rain forest are conducted to make way for cattle pasture. Environmentalists say the fires are a part of increasing …
