Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Manoj Markendeyrao Wahane Vs Maharashtra Bamboo Development Board & Others dated 19/09/2022. The Maharashtra Bamboo Development Board had set up a chemical treatment plant for bamboo processing within the Gorewada reserve forest, Nagpur, Maharashtra without forest clearance. Thus, the board …
NAGPUR: A hot debate is underway among wildlife conservationists, proponents of Forest Rights Act (FRA) 2006 and the authorities over diverting sensitive and tiger-bearing reserve forest area to Forest Development Corporation of Maharashtra (FDCM) for logging operations. Now, principal secretary (forests) Praveen Pardeshi has said he would review the decision …
Latest FSI Report Says Kerala Is Amongst The Few States That Managed To Increase Forest Cover, But Environmentalists Say It Could Be Plantations First the good news. Kerala is one of the few states in the country which has managed to increase its forest cover substantially in the last two …
The India State of Forest Report 2013 contains information on forest cover, tree cover mangroves cover and growing stock inside and outside the forest areas. Special thematic information on forest cover such as hill districts, tribal districts, and north eastern region had also been given separately in the report. The …
The 2013 edition of the assessment report on India’s forest resources published by the Forest Survey of India and released by Shri Prakash Javadekar contains information on forest cover, tree cover mangroves cover & growing stock inside and outside the forest areas.Special thematic information on forest cover such as hill …
The government resolution notifying the scheme was issued on May 20. Village panchayats with a track record of managing forests will be given a larger role on World Environment Day on Thursday (June 5). At least 50 panchayats (village local bodies) will be bestowed more powers under the ‘Gram Van’ …
Devastating forest fire engulfed almost all the forest areas under Seijosa circle of East Kameng district creating havoc in lower belt of the circle since first week of this month. The forest fire, which has already destroyed the forest areas in lower belt of Seijosa circle, engulfed new areas under …
NAGPUR: A year after Supreme Court ordered Forest Development Corporation of Maharashtra (FDCM) to plough back money from timber felled in Mansinghdeo sanctuary towards conservation work, the corporation remitted Rs 50 lakh to Pench Tiger Conservation Foundation. Mansinghdeo (183 sqkm) was notified a sanctuary on November 2, 2010, and is …
Nearly 300 hectares destroyed in blaze Additional Chief Conservator of Forests (Vigilance) C.S. Yalakki has said that the fire that destroyed nearly 300 hectares of forests in Wayanad district on Sunday was “man-made.” In a preliminary report to Forest Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan on Monday, the officer said “the cause of …
Devouring flames : Fire continues to rage in the Mattigodu Forest, coming under Nagarahole wildlife division, near Gonikoppa on Thursday. The -fire in the Anechowkur range of the Nagarahole national park has left a trail of destruction over an area of 400 square metres. Bamboo and other plant species, from …
The Maharashtra government has given its approval for a first-of-its-kind bamboo processing unit to be set up in Naxal-hit Gadchiroli district at an estimated cost of Rs 19.40 crore. The state Cabinet last week gave two major approvals that could pave way for liberating bamboo from the strict control of …
Increasing the forest and vegetation covers could mitigate the global warming and its allied problems. In this study, Bambusa vulgaris raised in 3/4 of an acre of a farm land in Aaarupatti village of Dharmangalam Taluk of Salem District in Tamil Nadu, India mustered profit for a farmer. The trained …
Ahmedabad: Bamboo farming has changed the landscape of a village situated on the banks of River Mahor in Kheda district. Kaprupur, a hamlet of 3,000 people, has even won the Prime Minister’s excellence award for the success of MGNREGA. The villagers and panchayat used five hectare of wasteland on the …
Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki said that his government is committed to increase the State’s forest cover by another 90 per cent by controlling shifting cultivation, arresting forest fires and over–grazing, and curbing illegal removal of forest produce, while at the same time undertaking plantation through TFC, CAMPA, SFDA, …
Analysing the problem-ridden process of implementing the Forest Rights Act 2006 in Odisha, this paper points out that it has focused more on providing land rights to individual claimants, neglecting community forest rights, the rights in protected areas, and other such provisions. Even so, the number of titles granted to …
Experts Find That Much Of It Has Degraded Into Scrubland A study on the status and distribution of forests of a portion of the Western Ghats has revealed that more land is in private hands than the area under protected forests, but large tracts have degraded into scrub and wastelands. …
The government has prepared a Rs 109-crore comprehensive project to contain man-animal conflict in the backdrop of the increasing number of elephant attacks. Forests minister B Ramanatha Rai told the assembly on Monday that the proposal for the five-year project is under consideration. The districts proposed to be covered are …
Bimolangshu Roy Foundation, named after the late MLA of Silchar, has raised question about the construction of Barak Dam, also known as Tipaimukh Multipurpose Dam Project, against the backdrop of Himalayan Tsunami in Uttarakhand. Briefing media–persons today, Dr Rajdeep Roy, son of Bimolangshu Roy, managing trustee and State spokesperson of …
A controversial hydroelectric project in the northeast may run into rough weather with the Environment Ministry hesitant to grant green clearance to the project which involves cutting 78 lakh trees and 27,000 bamboo columns. The construction of the proposed 1500 MW Tipaimukh Multipurpose Hydroelectric Project (HEP) downstream of the confluence …
A controversial hydroelectric project in the northeast may run into rough weather with the environment ministry hesitant to grant green clearance to the project which involves cutting 78 lakh trees and 27,000 bamboo columns. The construction of the proposed 1500 MW Tipaimukh Multipurpose Hydroelectric Project (HEP) downstream of the confluence …
