Wood residues – the materials left over when trees are logged and processed – hold the potential to support resource-efficient energy access, revitalize rural economies and help mitigate climate change, according to this new report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). In many countries, wood …
Often termed as poor man's timber, bamboo, with its various new applications can well be an alternative housing solution for the earthquake prone areas due to its high tensile strength structurally. Exploring the use of bamboo as an alternative to the rapidly depleting wood resources in housing and other industrial …
Refugees clash For the first time in 16 years, a violent confrontation took place in the third week of February between Bhutanese refugees and villagers in Pathari, 600 km east of Nepal's capital Kathmandu. The clash happened when the latter tried to stop the Bhutanese refugees from taking wood from …
on may 10, the Supreme Court sentenced Maharashtra transport minister Surupsing Hirya Naik and additional chief secretary Ashok Khot to jail terms of one month on charges of violating the court's order and permitting six sawmills in the state. Naik was the state forest minister when the sawmills were granted …
This term was first coined in 2001 by a UN panel of experts investigating the illegal exploitation of natural resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Since 1998, timber there has helped fund a conflict that has killed around 4 million people. The volume of wood removed by rebel factions, …
indiscriminate use of copper chromate arsenate (cca), a wood preservative, is fraught with the risk of arsenic leaching and contaminating soil and groundwater, warns a study conducted in the us . T imber and plantation wood are commonly treated with cca, which has been in use for decades. cca increases …
It is not just China’s economy that is growing phenomenally. An aggressive afforestation policy, put in place in 2000, has seen large tracts being covered by trees every year. But afforestation efforts are no match for China’s growing demand for wood
ITC's proposed plant of 200,000 tonnes paper capacity will need 400,000 tonnes of dry wood, for which, in turn, 800,000 tonnes of wet wood (with normal moisture content) are needed. Will this require 75,000 ha to grow? The average yield from plantations is 100 tonnes of wood per ha in …
A forest guard sets out on his nightly patrol in the Periyar Tiger Reserve (ptr) in Kerala's Idukki district with the most unlikely companion: a former smuggler of vayana, the bark of the cinnamon tree. The two appear to get along well especially that now both are on the same …
It stems from a public interest litigation filed by T N Godavarman Thirumalpad in 1995. In December 1996, the court ordered there would be no timber-felling unless the forest department made a working plan for forested regions, demarcating areas that could be logged. Also, no trees at an altitude of …
over 70 per cent of cedar trees, also known as deodar, have vanished from the forests of Jammu and Kashmir following the ban imposed on timber exports by states like Himachal Pradesh way back in 1977. To meet the demand for wood, mass destruction of the state's forests has taken …
• Conservationists have slammed media mogul Disney for its plans to serve shark's fin soup, sea cucumber and abalone in restaurants at its new theme park in Hong Kong in September. "Promoting these marine species is not responsible because they are not sustainably harvested. Disney should promote responsible consumption,' said …
When the new president of the Confederation of Indian Industry took charge last fortnight, he reportedly made the following observation: "While the flow of direct foreign investment is important, what is more important is that employment generation must be ensured in the country". Then - and this is even more …
You were the president of the Nongstoin unit of the Khasi Students Union (KSU) when the Supreme Court placed its December 1996 stricture on tree-felling in Meghalaya. And you were against tree-felling. ksu 's stand was that logging was rampant: there was absolutely no control over tree felling. ksu also …
Agroforestry could be a good option to produce raw materials for forest-based industries such as pharmaceuticals, paper and furniture. Besides weaning away pressure from forests, it can provide additional income to farmers and ensure subsistence. However, after years of promotion by the government, agroforestry in India has not lived up …
function graph1() { var popurl="files/images/20041015/32-graph1.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=700,height=270,scrollbars=yes") } Green Rating helps to benchmark performance and when we return to each sector, the most interesting task is to track how the sector has changed
GRP has a time series data of 8 years for the Indian pulp and paper sector. It is a powerful indicator of visible changes, not just in companies which have improved but also in those that have slipped. The database also allows GRP to tellingly forecast what the management has …
The Indian pulp and paper industry stands indicted for the wide-scale decimation of forests in the country. Till the mid-1980s industry got wood at throwaway prices from vast forest lands owned by the government. As forests were denuded in their vicinity, their footprint increased; companies went far and further to …
function graph() { var popurl="files/images/20041015/38-graph.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=700,height=400,scrollbars=yes") } Water is the Achilles heel of the Indian pulp and paper industry. Most of its challenges end up with its inefficient use of water. There is no doubt that the world over, this industry is the largest industrial user of water. But globally, …
As yet, people living near paper mills have not been at peace with their polluting neighbour. Not only are there conflicts, but clearly the local community in many cases has been able to assert its demand for the industry to clean up or close down. It would not be wrong …
The pulp and paper industry is an environmentalist' nightmare. It can easily eat away a nation's forest. It uses huge amounts of equally precious water to
