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 mountainous region of Lak Xao in Central Laos has emerged as a haven for timber and wildlife product smugglers. General Cheng Sayavong, a self-styled leader, commands an empire on the mountain where he carries out logging operations and runs a private zoo. His military company, Bolisat Phatkhana Khet Phoudoi, …
The assault on hapless Indians trying to safeguard their homeland from avaricious miners and loggers continues. Recently, a group of loggers and miners went on a rampage in the Sarare reserve in Mato Grosso injuring about 14 Katitaulhu Indians, damaging a health post and school and looting tools and vehicles …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of T. N. Godavarman Thirumulkpad Vs Union of India & Others dated 12/12/1996 regarding the true scope of the Forest Conservation Act, 1980 and the meaning of the word "forest" used therein.
native Indians in Canada are up in arms against a continued assault on the mineral-rich Temagami region. The Indians are pressing for land rights in this more than 6,000 sq km area which is 500 km north of Toronto. The region is considered by geologists to be one of the …
In an attempt to check the degradation of the Amazonian rainforests, Brazil's Chamber of Commerce will soon begin a nine-month investigation into various Asian logging companies operating there. Brazilian greens have for long maintained that logging has increased manifold and was primarily financed by companies which had poor environmental records. …
Large tracts of tropical peat forests will be cleared to make way for rice-fields, horticulture and plantations as part of a huge rice development project initia-ted by the government. The short-sighted and ill-planned project, aimed at boosting the government's popularity, totally ignores the grave consequences on environment and the local …
in order to better understand and deal with the negative environmental impact associated with refugee situations, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( unhcr ) has come out with a document titled unhcr Environmental Guidelines . The guidelines are the first of the Commission’s three initiatives to mitigate environmental …
one of the richest hordes of tropical rainforests in all of western Africa is in dire straits. The government of Nigeria's Cross River state is planning to grant logging concessions in five forest reserves of the state to a Lagos-based Chinese metal concern, the Western Metal Product Company ( wempco …
The ports of Cambodia and Thailand are doing a brisk business. Huge piles of logs sawn from Cambodia's dwindling rainforests make their way daily from the main port of Sihanoukville to the Thai seaport of Klong Yai. Investigations by the British Broadcasting Corporation ( bbc ), which carried a documentary …
This small republic on the west coast of central Africa stands as a test case for Africa's rainforests which are suffering the fastest rate of logging in the world. Gabon has nearly eighty five per cent of green cover which consists of some of the most diverse tropical forests in …
An accelerated destruction of the Amazon rainforest has set alarm bells ringing. Satellite data from the National Space Research Institute in Sao Jose dos Campos shows that from 11,000 sq km in 1991, deforestation has increased by 34 per cent to 14,900 sq km a year between 1992-94. "That is …
the forests in the Terai region of Uttar Pradesh may soon be turned into a graveyard of stumps if immediate steps are not taken to contain the illegal felling of trees. It has come to the notice of the state government that organised mafia gangs were operating on a large …
the Western Ghats, which bear the brunt of the monsoon rains, are blessed with an almost unbroken stretch of evergreen forest cover from the southern extremity of India up to the hills of Goa. The forests further north are smaller and gradually lose their evergreen character and become deciduous. In …
The Supreme Court of India recently directed the Gujarat government to stop felling trees in the Narayan Sarovar Chin kara Sanctuary in Kutch to clear the ground for a mega cement factory. The ruling was given on an appeal filed by the Consumer Education Research Centre of Ahmedabad three years …
The 'innocent-looking' telephone directory has been the target of the ire of US environmentalists. Recently, they had much to cheer about when the city council of Santa Monica, California, passed a resolution banning the clearcutting of temperate rainforests. The resolution was in response to concerns over the logging of old.growth …
THE second session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests (IPF) was held from March 11-22 in Geneva. Delegates conducted their first substantive discussions of six programme elements: underlying causes of deforestation and forest degradation; fragile ecosystems affected by desertification and the impact of air pollution on forests; needs and requirements …
Even as the country is emerging from the ruins of decades of war, it is faced with another kind of threat. Continuing violence and an open market economy have brought the country on the brink of environmental devastation. Unchecked logging could lead to disasters such as soil erosion and flooding. …
• India was one of the signatories to the draft international convention on liability and compensation for damages in connection with the carriage of hazardous and rundous substances by sea, organised by the International Maritime Organization. The convention was ratified on April 15 in London. • Come June, and the …
THERE seems to be no limit to the harm done on the environment in the name of development., At least one lakh trees - mainly coconut - are proposed to be felled to clear the ground for a proposed airport in Lakshadweep. The local government has planned to construct an …
