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 …
Asmara — Around 1.3 million tree-seedlings have been planted in the Southern region this year alone, according to Mr. Ghebremichael Berhe Head of Wildlife and Forestry Authority in the region. In an interview he conducted with ERINA, Mr. Ghebremichael explained that 27 different types of tree-seedlings have been distributed and …
24,000 fully grown trees were uprooted to widen Bist-Doab stretch The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has summoned the records on the controversial felling of 24,000 fully grown eucalyptus, ‘sheesham’ and ‘keekar’ trees under a project to widen the 800-km-long Bist-Doab canal during the SAD-BJP rule. Taking up the petition filed …
HYDERABAD: All 72 Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) across Telangana would get a green facelift as the World Bank has come forward to provide funds to the tune of Rs 250 crore under Urban Green Environment Project. The World Bank has primarily accepted the state government’s Green Environment plan for all …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Babulal Jajoo Vs. State of Rajasthan & Others dated 11/09/2017 regarding illegal mining in Bhilwara, Rajasthan. Counsel for the State of Rajasthan submitted that the Collector had identified certain areas where illegal mining had been done …
Bhopal: The central bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) has sought a detailed report on recent plantation drive on the banks of Narmada river from state government, which claims to have planted around seven crore saplings. The state forest department and horticulture department have been asked to submit a detailed …
The community of Tumani Tenda village in the West Coast Region in collaboration with All Gambia Forestry Platform, and representative from KAMFORA, Department of Forestry Tuesday embarked on a massive tree planting exercise at the Tumani Tenda Forest Park. The exercise that saw the planting of one thousand indigenous local …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Society for Protection of Culture, Heritage, Environment, Traditions & Promotions of National Awareness (CHETNA) Vs. National Highway Authority of India & Others dated 05/09/2017 regarding greening of public spaces. Counsel appearing for the National Highways Authority of India submits that …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Raghunath Jha Vs. Ministry of Urban Development dated 04/09/2017 regarding destruction of trees as a result of demolition of government residential colonies in Delhi. NGT directs the Project Proponent (National Buildings Construction (NBCC) Limited) not to fell any tree without …
Union Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan today said India is developing a blueprint for implementing its Nationally Determined Contributions on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. “We are working on developing a roadmap for implementation of our NDCs (Nationally Determined Contributions) and have constituted an implementation committee and six thematic sub-committees involving key …
Fast-dwindling mangroves in Myanmar's low-lying Ayeyarwady Delta, ravaged by decades of deforestation and conversion of land for agriculture and aquaculture, could find an unlikely saviour - drones. Mangroves protect coastlines in the face of storms and rising sea levels, absorb carbon from the atmosphere, and boost fish stocks, experts say. …
A campaign to plant trees to compensate for the impact of President Trump's climate policies has 120,000 pledges. The project was started by campaigners upset at what they call the president's "ignorance" on climate science. Trump Forest allows people either to plant locally or pay for trees in a number …
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's northwestern province, Khyber Pakhtunkhaw (KPK), has planted an unprecedented 1 billion trees in just more than two years and surpassed an international commitment of restoring 350,000 hectares of forests and degraded land. The massive effort aims to turn the tide on land degradation and loss in the …
The consent of gram sabha will not be mandatory for artificial regeneration of forests or plantation drives by the forest department, going by a latest draft of the Centre's compensatory afforestation fund (CAF) rules 2017. A draft of the rules of the CAF Act Rajya Sabha passed last year was …
Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das today said development is necessary but it should not be at the cost of environment. "Development is necessary for the rapidly changing economy. But the government doesn t favour development at the cost of environment," Das said after planting seedlings in the under construction legislative …
Chief minister Nitish Kumar said on Monday the state government has almost achieved its target of 15% green cover in the state by end of 2017. The CM had launched Hariyali Mission in 2011 to increase the green cover in the state. Addressing a gathering at Veer Kuer Singh Park …
Jaisalmer: To create suitable situation for breeding and roaming of Godawan, now Indian army's ecological battalion will develop grassland at DNP in Jaisalmer along with do plantation of desert species plant. This work will start from mid august. On the other hand, there is good news in the area of …
The ministry of environment, forests and climate change (MoEFCC) has come up with draft rules to implement the Compensatory Afforestation Fund (CAF) Act 2016. The draft has stirred up a controversy with civil societies alleging that stakeholders have not been consulted while in the process. However, union environment minister Harsh …
The Department of Natural Products, NIPER, has started a green window system (GWS) for medicinal plants. The window was activated by NIPER Director Raghuram Rao Akinnepally here yesterday. Through the green window, potential/interested domestic users and educational institutions at the school level will be provided selected medicinal plant germplasm for …
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 …
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 …
