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 …
Bialowieza Forest is the kind of place you imagine from the Grimm fairy tales. Huge firs, oaks, and ashes tower over you, woodpeckers and other birds call all around you and the guides who work there know the intimate history, and names, of many individual trees. For anyone, it is …
KAGERA Regional Commissioner Salim Mustapha Kijuu has directed councils in Muleba, Bukoba, Biharamulo, Ngara, Karagwe, Kyerwa and Misenyi to ensure that each plants at least 1.5 million trees each year in bid to preserve the environment. According to him, the region plans to plant 12 million trees annually. 0 Comments …
Several plantation units exist in records but missing on the ground I 6 FIRs filed Lakhs of trees, both conifers and broad-leaved, claimed to have been planted by the Forest Department in the past few years in reality exist nowhere on the ground. “So many plantation units exist in the …
Acclimation of leaf respiration to a 3–5-year period of warming by 3.4 °C for 10 North American tree species in forest conditions eliminated 80% of the increase in leaf respiration expected of non-acclimated trees; this suggests that the increase in respiration rates of terrestrial plants from climate warming, and the …
After Kandhamal district, sandalwood smugglers seem to be spreading their network to neighbouring Gajapati in Odisha. Two sandalwood trees on the premises of government offices at Mohana in the district were found missing on Monday, officials said. “Patrolling in collaboration with the police has been intensified and efforts are on …
The National Green Tribunal’s Southern Bench here has ordered issuing of notice to Tangedco on an application which sought to stop the cutting of trees in Tiruverkadu near here for installing overhead power lines. When the application filed by VGN Mahalakshmi Nagar Owner – Residents Welfare Association of Perumalagaram came …
Agra: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued notice to Union ministry of environment and forest, Uttar Pradesh government, UP Expressways Industrial Development Authority (UPEIDA) and others seeking their replies in a plea challenging the forest clearance granted to construct the 302.22 km Agra-Lucknow Greenfield expressway. The bench headed by …
Chandigarh: Chandigarh, which is known for its lush greenery may lose much of it to iron clamps around trees. The clamps are suffocating the trees they were supposed to protect. A few residents lodged a complaint with the administration to preserve the beauty and heritage of City Beautiful but there …
City-based industrialists have decided to plant 6,000 saplings across the industrial sectors over the next six months. "We have decided to undertake the green drive after a discussion with the district magistrate of Gautam Budh Nagar. As industrialists, we do have a responsibility to protect the environment for future generations. …
The forest department, which generally takes care of tree covers and forest land, has quite a different job to do in Manali. Department officials have waged a war against all tourism activities in their areas. Rohtang, Marhi and Solang, popular tourist places of Manali, come under the jurisdiction of the …
AAP is 30,000 trees short of its FY 2015-16 target to plant 13 lakh trees The Delhi government is planning to set itself the ambitious goal of planting 15 lakh new trees in financial year 2016-17, even though it is yet to achieve last year’s target of planting 13 lakh …
Greenpeace accuses government of ignoring scientists over fate of Białowieża woodland, home to 20,000 animal species and Europe’s tallest trees Poland has approved large-scale logging in Europe’s last primeval woodland in a bid to combat a beetle infestation despite protests from scientists, ecologists and the European Union. The action in …
Forest Landscape Restoration Hub for the Eastern and Southern Africa countries was, yesterday, inaugurated in Rwanda during the celebration of International Forests Day. The centre will be providing high level technical support, financial packages, investments and incentives, and technical data access to restoration programmes in the region covering more than …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Aditya N. Prasad & Ors. Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 23/03/2016 regarding electrical wires on trees put up by power distribution companies. The Tribunal in its Order stated that "in the event of default of direction and the …
Environmental activists staged a protest at the old deer park, in front of Kadri Park, here on Monday against felling trees for the on-going musical fountain project and associated works being taken at a cost of Rs. 5 crore. The Mangaluru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) has taken up the project …
NASHIK: A private agency hired by the civic body for its botanical garden project in Pandavleni came under the scanner of the green activists on Thursday for cutting 46 trees at the location without prior permission from the Forest Development Corporation of Maharashtra Limited (FDCML). The private contractor illegally cut …
KOLKATA: Green activists who had been fighting to save several century-old trees on Panditiya Road now have reasons to feel happy with National Green Tribunal (NGT) ordering a ban on felling of trees in this posh south Kolkata locality. The 'save the green' fight for a group of environmentalists and …
Gurgaon: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday allowed residents of DLF Phase I to water new trees planted by them in the green belt, where BPCL had axed around 50 trees to make way for a petrol bunker. Residents alleged the felling of trees was carried out by the …
DEHRADUN: In a recently submitted report to the Parliament by the ministry of environment and forest, Uttarakhand recorded a major loss of 268 square km forest cover between 2013-2015. The state ranks second in negative forest cover growth (-1.11 square km) after Mizoram with a growth of -1.36 square km. …
Planting trees around rivers could reduce the height of flooding in towns by up to 20%, new research suggests. A study for the Environment Agency concludes that trees round a feeder stream can slow the rush of rainwater and save properties from flooding. But it warns that natural flood prevention …
