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 …
This study explores the potential links between specialization in cocoa exports and deforestation in developing nations through the lens of ecologically unequal exchange. Although chocolate production was once considered to have only minimal impacts on forests, recent reports suggest damaging trends due to increased demand and changing cultivation strategies. I …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Court on Its Own Motion Versus State of Himachal Pradesh dated 01/08/2017 regarding large scale illegal felling of trees near Tara Devi Temple, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. The trees were of Deodar and Oak and were on a private property adjoining …
Environment scientist and Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru professor T V Ramachandra has said that Bengaluru has turned into a ‘dead city’ and Mysuru should not go the Bengaluru way. Ramachandra delivered a lecture on ‘Unplanned Urbanisation with Fragmented Governance and Poor Environment Health-Nexus’ as part of an international conference …
Farmers of Adokgre and its adjoining areas in North Garo Hills of Meghalaya have adopted banana cultivation as an alternative to jhum cultivation for their sustenance. Jhum also known as shifting cultivation is prevalent in most part of Northeast, where a forest area is cleared for agriculture. Adokgre village adjoining …
We evaluated a program of payments for ecosystem services in Uganda that offered forestowning households annual payments of 70,000 Ugandan shillings per hectare if they conserved their forest. The program was implemented as a randomized controlled trial in 121 villages, 60 of which received the program for 2 years. The …
The deforestation activities have been outpacing the reforestation effort in turn it is costing the nation greatly, said an official from the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. The Ministry National REDD + (Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Degradation) Coordinator Dr. Yitebitu Moges told The Ethiopian Herald that sadly …
Parliamentary panel head says 6-month-old report not being implemented. New Delhi: Prevention of forest fires and the resultant climate change do not appear to be high on the agenda of the Union ministry of environment, forest and climate change, the head of the department’s parliamentary panel has said, complaining of …
They are "Eyes in the Skies". Poaching, tree felling or any other non-forestry activity in tiger reserves will no longer be possible as the woods will be monitored by these unmanned aerial vehicles. Wildlife Institute of India (WII) researcher K Ramesh told TOI that both the Union Ministry of Forests, …
LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)- The Malawi Government, through the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Natural Resources has set aside 4.5 million hectares to meet the Bonn Challenge and AFR100 targets in a bid to restore Malawi’s biodiversity. The commitment comes amid the rude awakening of how vast deforestation has contributed to the country’s …
Aurangabad: Just Rs 19.8 crore has been allocated for mitigating the long-term environmental losses due to the proposed 155km-long Jalna-Aurangabad stretch coming up at a cost of Rs 7,579 crore as part of the access controlled Nagpur-Mumbai expressway, also known as Samruddhi e-way. The stretch, described as package III of …
The strong focus on species extinctions, a critical aspect of the contemporary pulse of biological extinction, leads to a common misimpression that Earth’s biota is not immediately threatened, just slowly entering an episode of major biodiversity loss. This view overlooks the current trends of population declines and extinctions. Using a …
Bhopal: Bhopal: Unbridled urbanization is turning green Bhopal into a concrete jungle. The massive growth of highrises, glass-facade buildings, and vehicles is in direct contrast to the rate at which trees are vanishing. No wonder you hear Bhopal old-timers mourn 'how green was my city'. It's every bit true. And …
France will take steps to restrict the use of palm oil in producing biofuels in order to reduce deforestation in the countries of origin, French Environment Minister Nicolas Hulot said on Thursday. France has opposed other uses of palm oil in the past. Several bills have been presented to parliament …
The man-made crisis in South Sudan has pushed the country back on multiple fronts, hampering agricultural production, disrupting livelihoods and the coping abilities of communities. These are but few of several compelling reasons as to why climate change risks in South Sudan should be a pressing worry at this point …
Engagement with the land registration system that underpins the Forest Code was initially high, but the researchers found that it had little bearing on the amount of illegal deforestation. Only 6 percent of farmers surveyed said they were actively restoring deforested parts of their land, while 76 percent said that …
The United Nations' cultural body UNESCO has called on Poland to halt logging in its ancient Bialowieza Forest, saying it could otherwise decide to place it on its list of world heritage sites in danger. Bialowieza Forest, which straddles Poland's border with Belarus, is one of the last and largest …
The Coalition of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) Against Mining in the Atewa Forest Reserve, has said it will petition the International Union For Conservation of Nature, to stop attempts by Government to allow the mining of bauxite in parts of the forest as part of a 15 billion dollar arrangement with …
Hundreds of environmentalists protested in Krakow Tuesday against widespread logging in Europe's last primeval forest as a conference of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee got underway in the historic city in southern Poland. The environmentalists demanded that the Polish government stop felling trees in the Bia322;owie380;a forest, a UNESCO World …
A t the FrigoAmazonas slaughter house inside the world's largest rainforest, the owner doesn't mince his words - much of the cattle processed here comes from illegally deforested land. "It's impossible to buy cows from land that isn't deforested," Felipe Oliveira told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in his tatty office …
Ethiopia is enlisting the cooperation of people in and around its forests to manage woodland better, hoping to protect the country from the effects of climate change while boosting development prospects for its population of 100 million. The government of Africa's second most populous country has set an ambitious aim …
