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 …
Deforestation of the Amazon is about to reach a threshold beyond which the region's tropical rainforest may undergo irreversible changes that transform the landscape into degraded savanna with sparse shrubby plant cover and low biodiversity. This warning derives from an editorial published in the journal Science Advances. The article was …
Although Kerala has been a top rubber grower in India, the plant was first introduced in the Northeast by the regional forest department in the 1960s Rubber plantations, which have been vigorously promoted in north-east India in the name of increasing forest cover and rehabilitation of tribespeople, have got environmentalists …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Daniel George Vs. Union of India & Others dated 16/03/2018 regarding construction of road through Aravalli Range, Haryana. NGT puts on hold the clearing of forested area of the Aravalli Range.
MUMBAI: As many as six forest fires were reported in Sanjay Gandhi National Park and Thane ranges since Tuesday evening. “A total of six forest fires were reported on Tuesday, including a major blaze at Mulund’s Yogi Hill area. By 8pm last night, the Mulund fire was brought under control …
The TFS’s Director for Planning and Resource Utilisation, Mr Mohammed Kilongo, has said the Forest Agency, effectively last year, has scrapped-off the malpractice of issuing timber harvest permits to persons and to the so called "special groups’’ but are not running sawmills. The Agency has said "special needs’’ is not …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Environment Awareness Forum Vs The State of Jammu & Kashmir dated 13/03/2018 regarding the annual felling of khair trees from the private land in the State of Jammu & Kashmir. Supreme Court directs the State of Jammu & Kashmir …
DEHRADUN: Union environment minister Harsh Vardhan said that he has taken “serious note of concerns regarding violations of environment norm in the construction work for the all-weather Char Dham widening project in Uttarakhand” and will speak with the state government. The minister was in Dehradun on Saturday to inaugurate a …
BENGALURU: The bio-park of Bangalore University’s Jnanabharathi campus lost 36 sandalwood trees in slightly more than a year, a reply to an RTI query has revealed. Twenty-six of these were chopped and smuggled by miscreants in December 2017 alone. The 1,000-acre campus is home to the largest number of sandalwood …
Kenyans are facing a shortage of timber and charcoal as the government moves to save forests from depletion. The government placed a three-month ban on logging and charcoal burning two weeks ago at the height of a biting dry spell that had led to major water crisis across the country. …
A plea alleging destruction of mangroves by the Deen Dayal Port Trust in Gujarat's Kutch district has prompted the National Green Tribunal to seek responses from the Centre and the state government. A bench headed by Justice Jawad Rahim issued notices to the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), Gujarat …
The government of Tanzania has formed a task force aimed at reinforcing the implementation of the Zanzibar Declaration on Illegal Trade in Timber and Other Forest Products, an official said on Thursday. Zanzibar’s Director for Planning, Policy and Research in the Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources, Livestock and Fisheries Sheha …
Wanton forest destruction under current and former governments have come back to haunt millions of Kenyans, who are now going to bed on an empty stomach. Some 3.4 million Kenyans have no food. Experts blame the devastating effects of deforestation in the 1990s. The country is facing an unprecedented and …
Saligao: Environmentalists, villagers from Verla-Canca in Bardez as well as activists from Tiswadi and Salcete gathered together at Mapusa on Tuesday to voice their opposition against illegal felling of trees, illegal land filling and the plan to include villages in the jurisdiction of the planning and development authority (PDA). The …
Zambian authorities have begun exporting timber confiscated from illegal loggers who continue to fell trees despite a nationwide ban to protect the country's dwindling forests. Similar moves in other countries have proved controversial, with opinion divided between whether selling confiscated timber sends the wrong signal to illegal loggers, or is …
Forty-two-year old John Matuku, a peasant in Mutha, Kitui County, has been burning charcoal all his adult life. What started as a pastime to supplement his meagre farm earnings has over the years turned into an occupation. He specialises in producing charcoal for sale in Nairobi and other towns. Over …
Destruction of forests in Kisii County continues even in the face of a ban on logging by the government. In the last five years alone, at least one forest has been decimated by the county government to give way to a bus park cum market at Keumbu, Nyaribari Chache Sub-county. …
Australia is in the midst of a full-blown land-clearing crisis. Projections suggest that in the two decades to 2030, 3m hectares of untouched forest will have been bulldozed in eastern Australia. The crisis is driven primarily by a booming livestock industry but is ushered in by governments that fail to …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of In Re: T. N. Godavarman Thirumulpad Vs Union of India & Others dated 06/03/2018 regarding diversion of forest land in Tamil Nadu which will also lead to felling of 110 Red Sanders trees by the National Highways Authority of …
ARUSHA, Tanzania (Xinhua) -- Hectares of natural forests have been cleared by artisanal gold miners in northwestern Tanzania’s district of Mbogwe, posing a serious environmental threat, authorities said on Thursday. Emmanuel Bwai, Mbogwe District Forest Officer, said the increasing number of small-scale gold miners poses a serious threat to Mbogwe …
Government will soon embark on a pilot project of planting solid bamboo to help curb deforestation in Kazungula district. Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Jean Kapata disclosed this when she visited Nyawa Chiefdom in Kazungula district in Southern Province to secure land for the project. Ms Kapata said her ministry …
