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 …
Virulent pests and diseases that are ravaging Africa’s forests with profound intensity pose new threats to their survival, experts said at a forum in Entebbe, Uganda on Wednesday. The experts drawn from the fields of botany and entomology noted that tree pests and diseases are spreading fast in many parts …
DAR ES SALAAM Tanzania (Xinhua) -- Tanzania is now facing alarming environmental destruction caused by haphazard felling of trees, a senior official said on Sunday. “Almost every Tanzanian is using one cubic meter of firewood or logs as daily energy source which is equivalent to more than 50 cubic meters …
MAPUSA: A well-known historian and a group of nature lovers led a chipko movement and held a protest to save 200 coconut trees on a 2 km stretch at Guirim on Monday evening. A group of nature lovers headed by well known historian Prajal Sakhardande hugged the coconut tress and …
The green panel also directed M C Mehta to submit the final report on the tree-felling incidents before July 10. he National Green Tribunal has directed the Divisional Commissioner of Agra to provide information on the trees planted in the eco-sensitive Taj Trapezium Zone (TTZ) near the historic Taj Mahal. …
WASHINGTON - A warmer, wetter climate is helping push dozens of Eastern U.S. trees to the north and, surprisingly, west, a new study finds. The eastern white pine is going west, more than 80 miles (130 kilometers) since the early 1980s. The eastern cottonwood has been heading 77 miles north …
MUMBAI: The Supreme Court has lifted a stay on felling of trees at various places along the 33.5km Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Metro III corridor. The Bombay high court had on May 5 vacated its order, which restrained Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) Ltd from cutting trees for the project. But it had …
CHANDIGARH: The city is all set to become greener. The municipal corporation (MC) will plant 40,000 trees and shrubs in the financial year of 2017-2018, submitting details under the Green Chandigarh Action Plan to the forest department. "We have prepared a list of trees to be planted on various locations. …
Nagpur: In over two years, not a single person has been convicted for illegally felling trees in the city. The garden department of Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has filed cases against only 14 people in this period. This was revealed in the reply to a RTI query filed by Abhay …
KOLKATA: Alarmed by the uprooting of 23 full-grown trees in Saturday evening's 60-second squall, botanists, environmentalists and ecologists have called for a tree management plan to save the city's greenery, which is facing rapid depletion threat. Green experts seem unanimous in their view that human factors cause most trees to …
Union agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh on Sunday said in order to bolster income of farmers, the Uttarakhand government would be allowed to bring about necessary changes in the law enabling them to cut 20 varieties of trees, according to a central government scheme, which has already been in place …
PUNE: With as many as 9.25 lakh trees surveyed in the city so far, a digitised tree census has managed to cover about 30% area in a year. The project is estimated to be completed in March 2018 even as nearly 70% area is yet to be surveyed. The project …
The Digha administration has decided to plant a large number of casuarina trees along the coastline where such forests have depleted because of subsequent cyclones and felling of trees. The lush forests of casuarina or jhow trees had attracted the Bengal government's attention in the late 1950s, when it decided …
MUMBAI: Around 31,000 trees will have be chopped in a stretch of 91km, which is part of the 366km stretch of the NH66 Mumbai-Goa highway, which is to be widened into four lanes. A sum of Rs 6.6 crore will have to be spent on removing trees, which are obstacles …
Zambian authorities have been trying to save an endangered timber species, the Mukula, but it seems their efforts are yet to yield any tangible results. Barely a week passes without stories of trucks laden with logs en route to being exported outside the country being intercepted. The Mukula tree is …
Khartoum- Minister of Environment in Khartoum State Maj. Gen. Omer Nimir has said the Green Belt Project in Khartoum State will contribute to reduction of temperature of the earth by 2% and combating desertification besides creating good environmental conditions for the people of the state. Maj. Gen. Nimir was addressing …
Illegal miners cut down trees before gouging into the earth in search of gold, and for them, the impact on the environment is none of their business Illegal miners cut down trees before gouging into the earth in search of gold, and for them, the impact on the environment is …
Kenya Forestry Service director Emilio Mugo has dismissed claims of illegal logging of indigenous trees in Kakamega Forest. He said the areas being discussed on social media include three plantations, where the KFS has authorised harvesting of mature trees planted more than 30 years ago. “Anybody is free to go …
The first ever global database of trees on Wednesday revealed that 9,600 tree species are threatened with extinction and identified a total of 60,065 in existence. Brazil is the country with the most diverse tree population, with 8,715 species, according to the Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) group. It also …
President Edgar Lungu has expressed disappointment at the extent to which the illegal mukula tree trade has increased. President Lungu said this when he visited Nakonde border post where he came to first hand reality of the impounded commodity. "Yesterday, I toured the Nakonde boarder. I was very disappointed with …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Poonam Gehlot Vs. State of Himachal Pradesh & Ors. dated 28/03/2017 regarding cutting of trees which are endangering the life of inhabitants, Himachal Pradesh. The state government has stated that 40 trees require immediate cutting to prevent loss of life. …
