Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of In Re: Zudpi Jungle Lands. A batch of applications involved a peculiar issue concerning the situation prevailing in the six districts of eastern Vidarbha region namely Nagpur, Wardha, Bhandara, Gondia, Chandrapur and Gadchiroli. The issue pertains to the status of the …
sewage water that has been polluting the Yamuna river for several decades will now be used for afforestation purposes. The Central Saline Soils Research Institute ( cssri ), Karnal will effectively use sewage water for development purposes. The scheme would not only reduce discharge of sewage water into the Yamuna, …
with the advent of the 21st century, it has become increasingly clear that drylands of the world will be subjected to even greater land use pressures as a result of the continued population growth. This is because the carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems is particularly sensitive to the impact of …
long before the world started talking about the dangers of climate change and abatement of carbon dioxide (co2 ) and methane emissions, Kautilya, an ancient Indian philosopher, almost 1850 years ago, had realised the importance of afforestation and proclaimed (in his book Arthashastra ) measures and methods of preserving forests …
THE government of Tamil Nadu is about to launch a massive afforestation drive called the Tamil Nadu Afforestation Project (TAP) which will be funded by the Overseas Economic Co-operation Fund of Japan. The quantum of assistance is to the tune of Rs 424 crore, a soft loan provided at an …
A: More questions than answers While the forest policy churned out by the government is not being implemented properly, reports on forests only tend to contradict themselves FOREST management practices in India at present could be said to be just a little short of hitting the nadir. The forest policy …
In mid-1984, the National Remote Sensing Agency had published two sets of forest cover data, one for the period 1972-75 and another for the period 1980-82. This data shocked the nation because it revealed that during the span of these seven years, the country had lost 1.3 million hectares of …
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) had sent this analysis based on the data provided by the Forest Survey of India and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, to several prominent individuals and government and non-government office-holders requesting them to forward their comments on the article. …
SEVERAL other issues gradually begin to emerge as the FAO data on the natural forest cover in India is further analysed. Unfortunately, after the old 1980 FAO data for India, FAO has not produced comparative data for 1990. In other words, the total undisturbed forest area in the country in …
For the state of forest reports to move away from being a smokescreen on India's forest cover and become a tool for enlightenment and intelligent decision-making, they must provide better classified forest cover data. First, the area under plantations and natural forests needs to be clearly separated out. Second, the …
THE FAO assessment claims that in 1990, India had a forest cover of 70.63 mha, of which 51.73 mha were natural forests and plantations another 18.90 mha. A similar FAO study regarding the 1980 forest cover had claimed that then India had a forest cover of 60.42 mha of which …
WOOD forms an integral part of the economies of both India and Japan, but in spite of their sizable forest areas, both continue to be wood-deficit countries. While the pressure in Japan mainly comes from the demand for industrial wood (the country's burgeoning paper and pulp industry is a major …
In its search for a strategy for afforestation, a laudable goal in itself, the Madhya Pradesh (mp) government has once again put its foot in its mouth and buckled down unduly to commercial lobbies. Its decision to relax the land ceiling laws to permit timber companies to take up plantations …
THE Habitat ii conference held in Istanbul, in June this year, had one message broadcast loud and clear: cities could be cleaned up and managed sustainably if only communities chose to do so. Twelve communities who have already demonstrated this were given the Best Practices Award by the UN. One …
in a study published in the Proceedings of the us National Academy of Sciences , researchers from the University of Georgia report that they have developed a plant capable of absorbing highly toxic mercury ions from a growth medium and reducing them to less toxic and relatively inert metallic mercury. …
A new afforestation programme is on the anvil in Bangladesh. Involving US $72 million, the plan includes the development and establishment of new nurseries, tree plantation along the highways and experimental afforestation in sea beaches. A total of 10 coastal districts, including Chittagong and Cox's Bazaar, have been selected for …
To check the problem of sea erosion in the coastal areas of Sri &Lanka;, the forest department has come up with a new remedy. It is going to create forests on beaches that are most affected by sea erosion. The department has already tried out this experiment successfully at the …
On what necessitated the formation of the National Tree Growers Cooperative Federation Limited (NTGCF): In 1985, the Wasteland Development Board (WDB) was looking for institutional alternatives to the Joint Forest Management (jw) programme. The idea was to establish a cooperative based on the Anand pattern, It envisaged the promotion of …
INDIA's Verdant, covers are spread over 75 million ha, about 19 per cent of the total land area, according to the latest annual economic survey conducted by th@ ministry of finance. But it is a long way off from the ministry of environment and forest's goal of agoresting 33 per …
