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 …
There is increasing concern about the fruit growth, development and quality of wax apple (Syzygium samarangense), a widely cultivated fruit tree in South East Asia. The growth and development of this fruit is sometimes very low due to low photosynthates supply at early growth stages. Growth regulators, hydrogen peroxide and …
Kolhapur: The forest department has decided to start a 'green army' to boost plantation and protection of the tree cover across the district. Deputy forest conservator Prabhunath Shukla said, "The state government successfully planted over 2 crore trees through public participation in the first two years since it came to …
City legislator Madan Kaushik inaugurated a plantation drive organised by the Rudra Yagna Samiti and the Pragat Bharat Sanstha here yesterday. Mass plantation would be done in the city periphery under the campaign. Kaushik planted a sapling at the Sadbhawna Ganga ghat. He said human life and ecology could only …
No ruining reserve forest.No ruining reserve forest. Bengaluru: The forest department has shot down the government's proposal to construct a 100-acre legislators' township in the Kadugodi plantation in Whitefield, saying it can't come up in a reserve forest. On November 18, Deepika Bajpayee, deputy conservator of forests (DCF), Bengaluru Urban, …
MUMBAI: Intending to fight against global warming, climate change issues and to save the environment, the state government has decided to plant trees on a large scale. The government has set a target of 50 crore saplings to be planted over the next three years--from 2017 up to 2019. A …
NASHIK: A private agency appointed by the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) will start tree census will begin in the city from November 20 using GPS/GIS. A presentation on the method of census was given on Thursday evening by M/s Terracon Ecotech Pvt appointed for a year. The agency will carry …
Environment minister Imran Hussain on Thursday reviewed the performance of all greening agencies in the capital to check the status of their target of planting 10 lakh saplings this year in Delhi. In the meeting — which was attended by officials from several government agencies including the forest department, horticulture …
70.37 lakh trees planted in state this year, says government The J&K; Government’s Forest and Environment Department has undertaken a “mission afforestation” to recover the lost forest cover, which is thought to have triggered the 2014 deluge. To reverse the climate change effects, Forest and Environment Minister Chaudhary Lal Singh …
KOHIMA: Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang has informed the state government’s decision to declare 2017 as the “Year of Plantation” in order to revive the ecosystem and maintained that his government was fully committed to protecting and conserving forests and wildlife. Addressing the ‘Awareness Campaign on Mitigation of Human-Animal Conflict,’ …
REDD+, agroforestry systems have the potential to reduce deforestation and forest degradation directly and indirectly. They supply timber and fuel wood that would otherwise be sourced from adjacent forests. In fact, agroforestry has been used in several protected area landscape buffer zones and in conservation programmes as a way of …
Planting trees is a cost-effective way to tackle urban air pollution, which is a growing problem for many cities. A study by US-based The Nature Conservancy (TNC) reported that the average reduction of particulate matter near a tree was between 7% and 24%. Particulate matter (PM) is microscopic particles that …
AURANGABAD: The civic body on Thursday started axing some trees on the around 17-acre land near Mahatma Gandhi Mission (MGM) to level the ground for constructing a memorial of Bal Thackeray. The land, which is a part of green-zone, was looked after by the MGM for the past three decades …
NEW DELHI: If the environment ministry has its way, all banks will be asked to join the state and the central governments in their ongoing efforts to increase forest cover in the country. The move will be part of one of the 10 ways, identified by the Centre, to reach …
HYDERABAD: Close to six lakh trees were illegally axed between April 2013 and March 2016 in the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, accounting for over 55 per cent of the total destruction of tree cover reported from 15 states and two union territories, a new report by the Union …
NASHIK: The forest department has begun preparations to generate seedlings for the massive tree plantation drive to be conduced over the next three years. The forest department will have to generate 170 lakh seedlings to be used over the next three years. The seedlings will be generated through NREGA (National …
Nagpur: The forest department is undertaking the first ever carbon stock assessment to gauge the benefits from the record-breaking 2.81 crore tree plantations done in July. It will also assess the survival rate of these newly planted trees using a special mobile phone app and remote sensing applications that are …
The state government has started the work to axe 1,763 trees after acquiring land of the Forest Department along the Western Yamuna Canal for the Western bypass project and near Assandh for the Assandh bypass project. Both the projects aim at ensuring smooth flow of traffic. As many as 1,037 …
BHOPAL: National Green Tribunal central zone bench, Bhopal on Tuesday slapped notices on state government agencies, including, collector Bhopal and commissioner, Bhopal Municipal Corporation for letting palm trees in the premises of Minto Hall dry by piercing nails in their trunks. Green panel was hearing to a petition by leader …
More than 17 crore trees have been planted in Bihar so far as part of efforts to achieve 15 per cent greenery by 2017, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said. Bihar had launched the 'Hariyali Mission' in 2012 and fixed a target to plant 24 crore trees by 2017, Kumar said …
