Affidavit by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of Sisir Kumar Panda Vs Union of India & Others dated 20/05/2025. The issue pertained to the removal of illegal construction/obstruction caused by the state authorities as well as the private persons in the ecological sensitive zone …
Urban wetlands, the lifeline of Indias cities for centuries, protected by tradition and preserved by people, are being ravaged by sheer greed and neglect WHAT do the Consumer Action Group, Madras, the Citizens Against Pollution, Hyderabad, the Nagarik Marich and Mudiyali Fisherfolks Cooperative Society, Calcutta, and the Citizens Voluntary Initiative …
"IMAGINE: going to the office, wading through streets piled with muck, wearing sloshboots boats ... faces in the crowd hidden behind gas masks ... long queues in front of fair price shops rationing out weekly portions of fresh water (5 litres per head), vegetables and fishImutton. The last homes for …
Hemmed in by concrete houses in South Delhi lies a large the ground, once called the Haul Khas tank. it . years ago, this historic tank supplied water throughout In 1398, when Amir Timur had conquered Delhi, his Shalfuddin Yazdl wrote, "it is so wide that an arrow car, shot …
The great Pantanal--the world's largest wetlands, located in South America--is running a grave risk, warns the World Wildlife Fund (wwf). It would fall victim to a gradual process of desertification if the proposed Hidrovia Waterways project is allowed to come up. The US $1.3 billion project would join the Parana …
The experiment in Panihati, where you have used folk technology and oxidation ponds (Down To Earth, June 30) for treating sewage and reusing the water for rice and fish cultivation, has earned much applause. But why did the experiment take so long? This took us a whole process of unlearning …
One for the birds: Meeting recently under the auspices of the Convention on Migratory Species (cms), representatives of over 60 nations signed an ambitious inter-governmental agreement -- aimed at conserving migratory waterbirds of Africa and Eurasia -- in The Hague, Netherlands. The agreement, called the African Eurasian Waterbird Agreement, covers …
The great new hope of Latin American businessmen is a 2,000 mile-long waterway called the Hidrovia. The project is likely to speed up shipping by straightening and deepening the Paraguay and Parana rivers. The us $1 billion waterway, which would also run through Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, is expected to …
THE Environmental Resources Research Centre (ERRC) in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, seeks to promote research and studies in identification of natural resources, and their use by developing required technologies. The ERRC aims at spearheading the environment movement through planning r&d; in 6 major research areas including wetlands, wastelands and the Western Ghats …
Environment Resources Research Centre Pumalliyoorkonam Post Box 1230, Peroorkada Thiruvananthpuram 695 005 Kerala Association for Arid Lands Studies Box 41036 Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX 79409-1036 USA Survey of Economic Plants for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands Centre for Economic Botany Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Richmond Surrey TW9 3AE UK NGO …
KANYAKUMARI, at the southernmost tip of the Indian land mass, is short on water - this despite the fact that almost one-fourth of the district has forest cover and receives between 100 to 250 centimetres of rain, distributed evenly over 10 months of the year. So why on earth is …
EUROPE's largest remaining wetlands may yet be saved from devastation. The Global Environment Facility has given a $4.5 million grant to Romania to help it preserve the rare flora and fauna of the Danube delta. The greatest threat to the delta comes from the pollutants and waste accumulated by the …
The Other Wealth (63 mins, directed by Sudipto Sen), described by its producer, Mise-en-Scene, as "a tale of magic wetlands, its people and their technology", is about an outstanding example of waste water and solid water recycling. But a distracting technique, of long sequences without commentary or music, goes against …
For an avid birdwatcher, the annual migration of birds from cold Siberia to warmer climes has all the ingredients of a of a high-tension drama."It's exciting," says a wide-eyed Iqbak Mullik, director of Shrishti, a NGO which espouses the avian cause. Shrishti organises bird counts across the country. It has …
The price of power THE Arun III controversy continues to dog Nepal, reports Jan Sharma from Kathmandu. In an uncanny coincidence, just as loan negotiations for the construction of the Arun III hydroelectric power project were about to begin with the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and Germany's KfW …
All might not be well in our wetlands, as indicated by -disturbing migratory trends of birds. "The disappearance of Siberian cranes is not the only cause for concern," says Ravi Aggarwal, member of the Delhi-based NGO, Srishti, which carried out the north India census for the Asian Wetland Bureau. "Only …
The wetlands of Bangalore are falling prey to rapid urbanisation, according to a paper prepared by a group of researchers. The report says urbanisation is also affecting water quality. It notes the number of water tanks within the city limits has declined to 16 from 140 in 1931, primarily because …
US PRESIDENT Bill Clinton has proposed a package of measures that would afford additional protection to Alaska's wetlands, but also ease some of the present restrictions on wetlands use. Environmentalists term the measures a tepid series of steps that will just open up opportunities for the abuse of a fragile …
FOR THE 400 families belonging to the Mudially Fishermen's Cooperative Society (MFCS), Justice Shyamal Sen's order in Calcutta High Court on June 14, 1993, was a tremendous relief for it restrained the Calcutta Port Trust (CPT) from filling up or damaging in any way an MFCS-run wetland nature park that …
RESPONDING to a West Bengal proposal to seek massive external aid to conserve the Calcutta Wetlands, the Union ministry of environment and forests (MEF) has recommended they be designated a waterbody of national importance. Such a recommendation would not only protect the wetlands from rapacious real estate developers, but also …
1865: Acquisition of a 1-square mile area by the municipal authorities for dumping the city's garbage. 1868-1872: Construction of a railway line and a canal were constructed across the square mile area. 1884: Completion of the drainage scheme with canals and sluices across the wetlands for the disposal of sewage …
