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 …
DH News Service, Mangalore: The forest department of Mangalore Circle comprising of Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and parts of Chikmagalur took an initiative to plant one lakh saplings on Monday. Speaking to reporters after launching
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi launched "Van Mahotsav-2008' with the Leader of the MCD House Subhash Arya planting a sapling at a sanitary landfill site at Hastsal in West Delhi on Sunday. The total area of landfill is about 16 acre and while the civic body has developed a park …
Mumbai, July 18 The tree census 2008 figures may show that the green cover in the city has doubled over the decade, but several tree authority members have contended that 19 lakh trees are inadequate for a city with a population of one crore. A city bursting with development, where …
Bangalore, DHNS: Now, NREGS (National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme) beneficiaries can take up works in their private land too... Rural Development and Panchayat Raj department has taken the decision to allow works related to rain water harvesting and afforestation under the scheme in private land. Since the introduction of the …
Manoj Anand Chaupakhi, a nondescript village in Western Assam's Bongaigaon district, has ensured its entry in to the Guinness Book of World Records by planting more than 280,000 saplings in 24 hours. Three hundred residents of Chaupakhi had embarked on a massive tree plantation drive on July 11 in a …
Mohali- The Punjab Tractors Limited (PTL) on Tuesday kick started a tree plantation drive in the city. Deputy Commissioner Rahul Bhandari planted the first of 10,000 saplings to be planted under the "Green Mohali' drive at the campus of the Paraplegic Rehabilitation Centre here. PTL has opted to spend 1 …
The Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has called upon the people of all sections of society to contribute their mite in protection and conservation of forests, which is the duty of each and everyone. In his message on the occasion of Van Mahotsav-2008, the Chief Minister said that in addition …
HOWRAGHAT, July 6: With the rest of the State the week-long Vanamohutsava organized by the Karbi Anglong Environment and Forest department is under way here. On the occasion, a function was held at Phulani where local MAC and EM for Environment and Forest Department, KAAC, Hemari Teron, local MLA and …
Agartala, July 6: The Tripura Home Guards have set up a huge plant nursery during the spare time of the volunteers within a year and also announced to supply the plants to all public authorities for planting in their campus and along the busiest roads of the State in the …
JULIAN D'COSTA The annual drives for greening of Goa could soon be in for a major roadblock, as shortage of land for plantations has already hit the state forest ministry. Data shows that the land area under such drives have already reduced by 40 per cent, and could drop further …
Bhata land is an important lateritic and well known category of wastelands, which covers extensive area in Chhattisgarh. Sporadic patches of plantations have been raised in this land on experimental basis, for selecting suitable species for taking up large-scale plantations. Present study was carried out in 20-years old plantations at …
Hyderabad, June 30: What do trees and plants have to do with the research output of an institution? Scientists at the National Geophysical Research Institute in Hyderabad believe that greenery on their campus is helping them produce more research papers than their counterparts elsewhere in the world. The NGRI has …
This paper estimates the impact on local household livelihoods of the Natural Forest Protection Programme (NFPP), the largest logging ban programme in the world that aims to protect watershed and conserve natural forests. In doing so it use a series of policy evaluation micro-econometric techniques to assess the impacts of …
Delhi will soon have 32 of them, says Sheila NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit inaugurated a city forest at Chhawla on the banks of the Najafgarh drain in South-West Delhi on Saturday. Over 12,000 saplings will be planted here over the next few weeks. Ms. Dikshit said the greening …
Pune, June 26 This year's Sant Tukaram and Sant Dyaneshwar Palkhis will comprise an ecological purpose in addition to their religious fervour. In an initiative conceptualised by the Directorate of Social Forestry, Maharashtra State, Pune, school students who are a part of the Eco Clubs formed under National Green Corps …
