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 …
Bhopal : Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan met union Minister for Environment and Forests Jayanthi Natarajan in New Delhi and urged her not to ban tourism in sanctuaries and tiger reserves, officials said here. A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) is pending in the Supreme Court to ban tourism in all …
SRINAGAR, Oct 4: Minister for Forest, Environment and Ecol¬ogy, Mian Altaf, today informed the Legislative Council that the geographical area of the Jammu and Kashmir State is 1,01,387km sq while the forest cover in the State is 16,309 square km (exclud¬ing forest cover outside line of control). He was replying …
THE NEXT time labourers in Chhattisgarh working for projects under the Compensatory Afforestation Management and Planning Authority, or CAMPA, get paid, their wages will not be deposited in a bank account. They will be paid in cash. This July 26 order of the state forest department violates a Supreme Court …
Uttarakhand is the only State in India with more than 12,000 Van Panchayats and nearly one lakh members. A total of 10 meetings and workshops have been held in all districts during the past year to facilitate their development under the Chief Minister’s plan for strengthening Van Panchayats. Various issues …
The Ministry of Environment and Forest has for the first admitted, in the High Court, that nearly Rs 816.08 crore of compensatory afforestation fund deposited by the Private Power Producers and companies engaged in the hydro-power generation was lying idle stashed in different banks for the past 15 years. In …
The Khandadhar waterfalls is a favourite picnic destination of many college students in Odisha. But it may soon be a pleasure of the past. The falls spring out from the Khandadhar hills that are home to 69 working sponge iron units. And with more than 150 mining projects approved, the …
Jamshedpur, April 10: Foresters in Saranda will soon launch an afforestation project that was sidelined for a year in view of threats from rebels and their sporadic clashes with security personnel. The project under the Compensatory Afforestation Management Plan Authority (Campa) of the Centre had been shelved, although it was …
Goa Forest Department has begun an extensive exercise to fence the boundaries of two major wildlife sanctuaries to avoid the infiltration of wild animals into nearby localities. Deputy Conservator of Forest (DCF) D N F Carvalho said that the five- kilometer-long rubble wall and cattle proof trench is being constructed …
Mooting a proposal to shift from the old concept of micro-level implementation of catchment area treatment (CAT) plans of hydro power projects, the state government is likely to approach the Centre to seek more liberty in spending of the huge funds received under such plans. The spending of CAT plan …
THE Union Environment Ministry has directed Orissa to submit annual plan of operationssothatRs140crorefromCompensatory Afforestation Fund due to the state could be released. States are required to inform the Ministry what they plan to do with these funds before money from the fund is released. In a letter, Environment Minister Jairam …
Relocation from protected areas is among the hotly debated issues in Indian wildlife conservation. Though the number of people displaced from inviolate areas for wildlife is less compared to the displacement caused by other development projects, the fate of those ousted from protected areas is often a cause for friction …
New Delhi: Delhi will be gaining infrastructure and better transport facilities thanks to the Commonwealth Games but that is coming at a cost. The city lost about 40,000 trees to Metro construction, flyovers and other Games-related projects in the past few years. Despite this, the green cover has been growing …
14 mining leases were visited in five forest divisions (Satna, Balaghat, Bhandara, Kolhapur and Vadodara) spread across three states namely Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat. The study included various minerals like Limestone, Bauxite, Ochre, Manganese, Fluorspar and Kyanite. (Out of 14 mining leases 3 were for underground mining and 11 …
BHUBANESWAR: Minister for Higher Education Debiprasad Mishra today criticised the Centre for not releasing adequate funds for compensatory afforestation programme despite huge deposit with the Compensatory Afforestation Management Fund and Planning Authority (CAMPA). Replying to the demand discussion on Forest and Environment Department on behalf of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, …
There has been increased funding for wildlife conservation efforts in recent years. These funds have largely been spent on "habitat improvement" activities. In the absence of a scientific evaluation of such activities, inappropriate management of landscapes has led to human-wildlife conflicts in certain areas. Moreover, funds are being used for …
