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 …
The present study is comprised of energy value, component energy, total energy content and net annual energy production of 6 years old monoculture plantation stand of Acacia auriculiformis A. Cunn.ex. Benth at Saresar Forest Range situated in the South-East outskirts of Varanasi city. The caloric value and content of different …
Dhaka University (DU) authorities yesterday began a tree plantation programme on the campus. Chairman of the afforestation and beautification committee Prof AFM Yusuf Haider inaugurated the programme while planting a few saplings of fruit-bearing trees in the Mokarram Hossain Khandakar Bhaban area on the campus. Caretaker of the Arboriculture department …
As the parks department has failed to save trees from being felled in different areas, the city government imposed on Tuesday a complete ban on felling of trees anywhere in the metropolis, by any civic agency, without its prior approval. Recently, City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal had issued directives to …
Parul Sharma NEW DELHI: The Delhi University community comprising teachers, students and karamcharis has launched a campaign under the aegis of Environment Justice Forum to save the trees in front of the office of Vice-Chancellor Deepak Pental on the campus. The Forum claims that these trees, some of them over …
The ratio of stable oxygen isotopes in tree-ring cellulose was first used to reconstruct temperatures during tree growth, and a seminal study showed a strong correlation between oxygen isotopes of woody tissue and mean annual temperature.
Nepali Congress (NC) Central Office Monday organised a tree plantation ceremony to mark the 26th remembrance day of the party's founding leader late BP Koirala. On the occasion, NC central leaders and party cadres planted diverse kinds of plants along the Bagmati river banks at Balkhu. The participants discussed the …
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 …
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Sunday launched monsoon tree plantation campaign, dedicating year 2009 to environment protection and greener Pakistan. He kicked off the plantation campaign by planting a sapling of araucaria in the lawns of Prime Minister's House. Talking to newsmen, he symbolised the freshly planted sapling with …
Scores of trees are being felled in Calcutta every month to make way for billboards, according to the West Bengal forest department. Last week, four full-grown trees
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 …
The Dhaka Club on Thursday kicked off a three-day tree fair on its premises at Shahbagh to make the members' children familiar with fruits and trees of different kinds. The organisers said that their children living in the city apartments were totally unfamiliar with various local species of fruit and …
Mumbai, July 16 With the organised efforts of the city's Tree Authority, several rare trees in the city are set to get nameplates. These trees will get a bright green metal plates identifying them by their common and scientific names, in English as well as Marathi. Dr Nilesh Baxi, a …
Recently, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) proposed a "green drive" to increase the forest cover of the city in the wake of the Commonwealth Games. The "Green Action Plan" would see the MCD undertake massive plantation of saplings, transplantation of trees, and the establishment and development of parks around …
In order to contain the monkey menace in and around the city, the Forest Department is planting saplings of fruit-bearing trees in Basistha area. Sources in the Forest Department said that about a thousand saplings of different fruit-bearing trees had been planted in the area, and plans were afoot to …
Bangalore: The road widening projects proposed for City by Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) will now have to go through the scanner of a seven-member Review Committee headed by environmentalist A N Yellappa Reddy, to check on its environmental and social sustainability. A city NGO Environment Support Group (ESG)'s president …
Chennai THE GO dated September 3, 2007 of the Environment and Forest Department, which exempted 36 species of trees from the purview of Timber Transit Rules (TTRs) will not be implemented, the Madras High Court was told on Wednesday. When the arguements on a batch of writ petitions from the …
The state government has simplified the procedure of granting permission for cutting trees to get timber wood in villages adjoining government forests. Now tehsildars have been authorised to give permission to the villagers. The maximum limit of cutting of up to two cubic meters in a year has also been …
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 …
Many evidences have been gathered to depict that climate change is taking place. A changing climate has strong implications for biodiversity changes and impact on the phenology and distribution of species alongwith community composition and ecosystem dynamics. These parameters may be used to find out indicator species to detect the …
Hundreds of trees are protected as living natural monuments and are associated with wisdom and immortality in India. In Uttarakhand, some trees hold special cultural and religious significance like peepal, banyan, mango etc. It was at the International Forestry Conference at Rome in 1926 that Protection of Natural Features were …
