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 …
PUNE: The lead applicant in the Pune Metro Rail matter before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) bench in Pune has raised a strong exception to a three-member expert committee's final report on the impact of the Metro's construction on the Mutha river bed. The green tribunal had constituted the committee …
SHIMLA: Taking note of a large-scale illicit felling of trees at Koti forest range in Shimla, forest minister Govind Singh Thakur on Sunday visited the spot along with the officials of the forest department. A couple of days ago, an incident of illicit felling of trees came to light after …
The illicit felling of 400 trees of different species like baan (quercus incana), deodar (cedar), chir (pine trees) in the Koti forest range adjoining Shimla has raised serious questions. The role of forest officials is under the scanner as reports suggest that the felling of trees and its conversion into …
The Consumer Unit Trust Society (CUTS) International Zambia has expressed concern that despite the ban on the harvest, transportation and exportation of Mukula tree, there is a lot of illegal trading. CUTS International Zambia Country Coordinator Chenai Mukumba says this is the more reason why her organization feels that the …
With the current trend of land use/land cover (LULC) change taking place globally, several parts of northeast India are also showing signs of change in LULC pattern leading to forest loss. This study focusses on the expansion of monoculture rubber plantation (Hevea brasiliensis) in selected sub-watersheds in northeast India, and …
Government assures green panel The Delhi government has assured the National Green Tribunal that there will be no felling of trees without requisite permission for carrying out redevelopment work at Pragati Maidan exhibition ground here. The Public Works Department of the Delhi government told a Bench headed by acting NGT …
GURUGRAM: About 200 trees were cut down in the Raisina area of the Aravalis on Wednesday, reported green activists. The environmental violation came to light after green activists, along with members of Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI), caught some people cutting the trees in the protected area. The tree …
Carbon stocks in vegetation have a key role in the climate system. However, the magnitude, patterns and uncertainties of carbon stocks and the effect of land use on the stocks remain poorly quantified. Here we show, using state-of-the-art datasets, that vegetation currently stores around 450 petagrams of carbon. In the …
The Indonesian government has unveiled an ambitious plan to nearly halve the number of fire hotspots in the country by 2019, in part through the restoration of degraded peat forests. The fires are an annual occurrence, linked to the clearing of forests for logging and monoculture plantations. In recent years …
Fewer than three years remain until 2020, the date by which commodity production in forest countries is supposed to be transformed. To achieve success, enhanced action and collaboration among sectors and various supply-chain actors are urgently needed. Responding to this urgency, the Prince of Wales’ International Sustainability Unit (ISU) invited …
Limited data exists on emissions from agriculture-driven deforestation, and available data are typically uncertain. In this paper, we provide comparable estimates of emissions from both all deforestation and agriculture-driven deforestation, with uncertainties for 91 countries across the tropics between 1990 and 2015. Uncertainties associated with input datasets (activity data and …
Trees impacted by the forces of natural processes such as flash floods, snow avalanches, landslides, rockfalls or earthquakes, record these events and exhibit growth disturbances in their growth-ring series. As a consequence, these disturbances provide an excellent signal for the spatio-temporal reconstruction of past natural hazard activity and a means …
The World Bank, together with the World Cocoa Foundation and Climate Focus, has released a new report to help guide the work of these governments and companies to operationalize the Frameworks for Action at the level of cocoa farmers. The report, entitled “Forest- and Climate -Smart Cocoa in Côte d'Ivoire …
Global cocoa production faces mounting environmental and economic challenges. Despite long-term global demand, cocoa producers are confronting the triple challenge of increasing productivity on limited land, reducing pressure on forests and ecosystems, and increasing their resilience to climate change. This report aims to inform governments, companies, and civil society partners …
The standing committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) had its annual meeting in Geneva November 27 through December 1. The committee rejected Madagascar’s petition to sell its stockpiles of seized rosewood and ebony that had been illegally cut from the …
Oil palm plantations certified as sustainable by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil had less deforestation than non-certified plantations, according to a new analysis. Certification’s effect on the incidence of fires and the clearing of forest from peatlands was not statistically significant. The research demonstrates that while certification does reduce …
The latest “Forest 500” rankings are out from the Global Canopy Programme (GCP), and the main takeaway is that the global companies with the most influence over forests still aren’t doing enough to cut tropical deforestation out of their supply chains. Just five companies improved their policies enough over the …
Jinja — More than 3,000 residents living in Butagaya Forest Reserve in Jinja District have defied a directive by the National Forestry Authority (NFA) to vacate, arguing that they have not been given alternative areas of settlement. Last week, the National Forestry Authority (NFA) issued a 30-day notice to the …
The loss of forests in Africa in the past century is substantially less than previously estimated, an analysis of historical records and paleontology evidence by Yale researchers shows. Previous estimates put deforestation at 35% to 55% on the continent since 1900. The new analysis estimates closed-canopy forests have shrunk by …
Officials of the Forestry Commission have intensified their fight against illegal logging in efforts to stem the tide of deforestation and ensure sustainable forest resource exploitation. In this direction, the Commission has impounded about 19 trucks loaded with illegally sawn timber, including the banned Rosewood specie over the past week. …
