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 …
Judgment of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Centre for Environment Protection (CEP) Vs Union of India & Others dated 19/01/2022. The matter is related to Chalfilh Tourist Destination. The NGT vide its order, January 5, 2021 had directed the government of Mizoram to …
India has recorded an increase of 1,540 square kilometres in its forest cover, according to the biennial India’s State of Forest Report 2021, published by the Forest Survey of India. This is the increase recorded during 2019 and 2021 The total forest and tree cover of the country is 80.9 …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Prabhat Srivastava Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 05/01/2022. The application seeks enforcement of NGT order, March 25, 2021 requiring the SEIAA, Uttar Pradesh and District Magistrates, Prayagraj and Pratapgarh to look into the grievance of illegal felling …
Order of the Supreme Court of India In Re: T. N. Godavarman Thirumulpad Vs Union of India & Others dated 09/12/2021. The application was filed by the state of Himachal Pradesh seeking permission for diversion of forest land under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 for construction of certain projects like …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of M. C. Mehta Vs Union of India & Others dated 08/12/2021. The matter related to Taj Trapezium Zone (TTZ). The matter related to permission for felling 1803 trees for the purpose of widening of the Mathura-Deeng (Gobardhan) road (four …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Mahesh Pal Vs State of Madhya Pradesh dated 08/11/2021. Issues raised in this application is cutting of trees without any necessary permission from the competent authorities and concretization of natural nallah and constructing path way in …
In this study, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) teamed up to investigate how transformational change (transformational change) is understood in the scientific literature. The study, the first of its kind to review academic studies on transformational change, …
This report, produced by the Tropical Forest Alliance, tracks the relationship between the rising demand for food and agricultural products and deforestation and paints a picture of increasing demands on tropical forest landscapes. It explores how commodity-driven deforestation occurs under conditions of competing pressures from food security, rural development, global …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Ajay Bisht Vs State of Uttarakhand & Others dated 03/09/2021. The issue for consideration was compliance of provisions of the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 in the process of construction of a road by the State PWD at Jaminipar, district Almora, …
Using land alone to remove the world’s carbon emissions to achieve ‘net zero’ by 2050 would require at least 1.6 billion hectares of new forests, equivalent to five times the size of India or more than all the farmland on the planet, reveals a new Oxfam report. Oxfam’s report “Tightening …
Factual and action taken report on behalf of the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Head of Forest Force (HoFF), Uttarakhand in compliance to the National Green Tribunal order, September 11, 2020. The matter related to alleged violation of environmental norms in the construction of Kotila-Gawad-Suraikhet motor road in Almora …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Council of Engineers & Others Vs State of Punjab & Others dated 19/07/2021 regarding restitution of designated green belt in Bhai Randhir Singh Nagar, Ludhiana and stopping of its unlawful conversion into residential plots and by planting saplings of indigenous …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Society for Protection Ophiofauna and Animal Rights (OPORS) Vs State of West Bengal & Others dated 15/07/2021. The matter related to felling of trees in the forest area of the Bichabhanga on the periphery of Gorumara …
A new report by Amazon Watch and Stand.Earth finds that most banks have failed to implement policies that would prevent the worst impacts of the oil industry in the Amazon. Of 14 banks assigned a score in the report, 11 were listed as being at “high” or “very high” risk …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of H. C. Arora Vs State of Punjab & Others dated 30/06/2021 regarding illegal cutting of 176 fully grown trees in village Roshanpur, block Bhunar Heri, district Patiala, Punjab. The applicant had made a series of representations to the concerned departments, …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Subhkaran Vs State of Haryana dated 28/05/2021. Grievance in this application is against cutting of trees by the health department for establishing water tanks at khevat No. 63/2, khasra No. 207, village Nimar Badesara, district Bhiwani, Haryana. It is stated …
Tropical forests around the world are being destroyed at an alarming rate, even in 2020 when the global economy slowed dramatically during the pandemic. A new report offers insight into a primary driver of this deforestation – and our unwitting complicity as consumers. In its report, Illicit Harvest, Complicit Goods, …
As humanity’s demand on natural resources is increasingly exceeding Earth’s biological rate of regeneration, environmental deterioration such as greenhouse gas accumulation in the atmosphere, ocean acidification and groundwater depletion is accelerating. As a result, the capacity of ecosystems to renew biomass, herein referred to as ‘biocapacity’, is becoming the material …
Deforestation rates are significantly lower in Indigenous and Tribal territories where governments have formally recognized collective land rights, according to a new report. Jointly published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Fund for the Development of Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the …
Companies are realising the need to act on deforestation. Despite COVID-19, 2020 saw a 27% increase in companies disclosing on how they are managing deforestation and 93% of companies we analyzed are taking at least one industry-accepted action to safeguard forests. However, the latest report shows that this action is …
