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 illicit felling of 400 trees of different species like baan (quercus incana), deodar (cedar), chir (pine trees) in the Koti forest range adjoining Shimla has raised serious questions. The role of forest officials is under the scanner as reports suggest that the felling of trees and its conversion into …
HYDERABAD: Teak (Tectona grandis) no longer figures in the top five tree species in Telangana. The felling of timber tree species has increased so much that the inventory indicates that teak no longer figures among the top five species. This is revealed by the latest report “State of Environment Report-TS”, …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Amandeep Aggarwal Vs. State of Punjab & Others dated 11/01/2018 regarding dead and fallen trees posing danger to human life and property, Punjab. NGT permits the State Forest Department, Government of Punjab to cut and or fell the dead, …
Government assures green panel The Delhi government has assured the National Green Tribunal that there will be no felling of trees without requisite permission for carrying out redevelopment work at Pragati Maidan exhibition ground here. The Public Works Department of the Delhi government told a Bench headed by acting NGT …
GURUGRAM: About 200 trees were cut down in the Raisina area of the Aravalis on Wednesday, reported green activists. The environmental violation came to light after green activists, along with members of Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI), caught some people cutting the trees in the protected area. The tree …
NEW DELHI: Your favourite sweet, Chocolate, could disappear in another 30 years and the reason is none other than climate change. According to experts, the cacao trees, which need heavy rainfall for growth, are struggling to grow due to warmer climates. A report in metro.co.uk quoted US National Oceanic and …
This was revealed here recently by Mr Simon Msoka, an official of the Kilimanjaro Regional Secretariat, during a land use and climate smart agriculture workshop. The workshop was organised by Hanns R. Neumann stiftung (HRNS) in collaboration with the Uganda-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA). “The campaign’s goal was …
Non-native plants invade some tropical forests but there are few long-term studies of these invasions, and the consequences for plant richness and diversity are unclear. Repeated measurements of permanent plots in tropical montane rain forests in the Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park in Jamaica over 24 to 40 …
In recent years, hundreds of companies have entered the restoration industry. They represent a wide range of business models that deliver financial returns for investors while restoring forests and agricultural lands. This report profiles 14 businesses that are part of an emerging restoration economy. It highlights four promising investment themes …
Trees impacted by the forces of natural processes such as flash floods, snow avalanches, landslides, rockfalls or earthquakes, record these events and exhibit growth disturbances in their growth-ring series. As a consequence, these disturbances provide an excellent signal for the spatio-temporal reconstruction of past natural hazard activity and a means …
Jinja — More than 3,000 residents living in Butagaya Forest Reserve in Jinja District have defied a directive by the National Forestry Authority (NFA) to vacate, arguing that they have not been given alternative areas of settlement. Last week, the National Forestry Authority (NFA) issued a 30-day notice to the …
NSS volunteers of Perikkalloor school conserve 40 varieties of trees endemic to the Western Ghats A group of students of Perikkalloor Government Higher Secondary School in Wayanad have set a model in restoring the green canopy on the banks of the Kabani River by planting and conserving 40 varieties of …
Moroto — Residents of Tepeth community, living on the slopes of Mountain Moroto, have for the second time blocked plans by the National Forestry Authority (NFA) to cut down some of natural trees in the area. The NFA executive director, Mr Michael Mugisa, and his team last Wednesday held a …
Over 3,000 trees will be felled for widening of the Rudraprayag-Gaurikund road in Rudraprayag district under the All-Weather Roads Project. The 76-km long Rudraprayag-Gaurikund is a key road to reach the Kedarnath shrine. The Public Works Department has been working on a war footing to widen the road. The Rudraprayag …
President clears ordinance amending Forest Act President Ram Nath Kovind today cleared an ordinance amending the Indian Forest Act, omitting bamboo grown on non-forest areas from the definition of a “tree”. This would help in exempting it from requiring permits for felling or transportation. Before the ordinance was issued, the …
The Indian Forest (Amendment) Ordinance, 2017 was promulgated on November 23, 2017. It amends the Indian Forest Act, 1927. Under the Act, the definition of tree includes palms, bamboos, stumps, brush-wood and canes. The Ordinance amends this definition to remove the word bamboos. Following this, bamboo growing in non-forest areas …
The Mangar village, located just 25 km from the Cyber City in the Aravallis, have named this patch Mangar Bani Not far from the choking pollution of Delhi and an increasingly urbanised Gurugram exists a village that has managed to preserve a 1,200-acre green patch, owing to their religious faith. …
Food and nutrition security is a major global challenge. Enhancing the local production of food is a key alternative in impoverished agrarian countries of the south. One option is agroforestry, promoted and implemented as a land-use system capable of addressing the multifaceted problem of food and nutrition security of small-scale …
OSLO (Reuters) - Forest fires in Brazil and Indonesia contributed to a record loss in global tree cover in 2016, equivalent to the size of New Zealand, that could accelerate deforestation blamed for climate change, an independent forest monitoring network said on Monday. Man-made global warming increased the risks of …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Raghunath Jha Vs. Ministry of Urban Development dated 22/09/2017 regarding destruction of trees as a result of demolition of government residential colonies, Delhi. NGT directs the Project Proponent to plant the tall trees at the site in question and if …
