Order of the Bombay High Court in the matter of Adani Cementation Limited Vs Union of India & Others dated 05/03/2025. Adani Cementation Limited approached the Bombay High Court seeking issuance of an order directing the respondents/ authorities to permit the petitioner to carry out the work of construction of …
Viju B | TNN Mumbai: A four-member committee appointed by the chief conservator of forests, Thane, to look into complaints of mangrove depletion in Dahisar has come out with scathing report stating that mangroves have been destroyed on a large scale during the construction of new roads and bunds in …
MUMBAI: A team of senior forest officials and environmentalists were heckled, abused and threatened on Tuesday in the presence of police personnel when they went for an inspection of the Dahisar site where mangroves were being systematically destroyed over the past few weeks. Thane assistant conservator of forests and the …
The Town and Country Planning Board has decided not to approve any project in areas notified as eco-sensitive, Chief Minister Digambar Kamat said here today. Kamat
The World Bank (WB) will provide the government with non-lending technical assistance to help carry out various studies for conservation of the Sundarbans forest, the largest single mangrove ecosystem in the world. The project will develop a programme that will integrate prioritised interventions to address the region's main conservation and …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Opposition Leader Oommen Chandy in a letter to Chief Minister V.S Achuthanandan has demanded that there should be immediate action to protect the mangroves and the environment at Pappinissery in Kannur. ``The mangrove theme park is functioning on a 12-acre area that has a dense population of mangroves. Such …
KOLKATA, 3 MAY: The World Bank in collaboration with the Centre and state governments has taken up a pilot scheme ~ Integrated Coastal Zone Management Project ~ in West Bengal, Gujarat and Orissa for overall development of the coastal regions of these states. Under the project, various developmental activities including …
Coastal areas of Orissa State in the northeastern part of the Indian peninsula are potentially vulnerable to accelerated erosion hazard. Along the 480-km coastline, most of the coastal areas, including tourist resorts, hotels, fishing villages, and towns, are already threatened by recurring storm flood events and severe coastal erosion. The …
Mangroves are unique salt tolerant plant community, found in the coastal regions. As a result of unprecedented human exploitable activities and population pressure, the day of mangroves decreases day to day. Agricultural expansion rather than shrimp farming is the major factor responsible for the destruction of tropical mangrove forests in …
New delhi and Dhaka have joined hands to protect the Sunderbans, the world’s largest mangrove forests spread across West Bengal in India and Bangladesh. Environment ministers of the two countries met at a climate change workshop in Kolkata on April 4 and announced that a Sunderbans ecosystem forum would be …
An international environmental watch dog has said that one-sixth of mangroves are under threat due to rapid developmental activities. In its first ever global assessment on the conservation status of mangroves, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in its Red List of Threatened Species released recently, has pointed …
Mumbai Keen to get clearance for the Navi Mumbai airport, the state plans to replant around 350 hectares of mangroves in Dahanu, 200 km from the site. The Centre will be informed of the decision following a public hearing in the next 15 days. The state has appointed the Gujarat …
Reema Narendran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: While mangroves come under moist tropical forest as per many classifications, the Forest Department has failed to bring the mangroves in the state under its fold. To make matters worse, the incentivebased scheme for mangrove conservation, as announced by Finance Minister Thomas Isaac in his budget speech, …
Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority (GCZMA) asked Public Works Department to replant three times the wide tracts of mangroves that would be cut for national highway expansion in near future. "Public Works Department, which will undertake the road expansion, will have to make sure that the mangroves are replanted before …
Kakinada, April 18: The destruction of hundreds of acres of mangroves in East Godavari and Yanam (an Union territory of Puducherry) districts is worrying environmentalists and nature lovers. Sources say that industrialists and people with the help of political leaders are engaging in destroying the-se trees for preparation of illicitly-distilled …
AN ECOLOGICAL DISASTER AWAITS MUMBAI AS SLUMS PROLIFERATE ALL ALONG ITS CREEKS, KILLING INVALUABLE MANGROVES Standing on the terrace of his residential complex at Link Road, Harish Pandey points to the twokilometre-long slum settlement snaking through the lush green mangroves adjoining Gorai creek. Around 8,000 illegal shacks have come up …
What led you to file the public interest litigation (pil)? On July 26, 2005, there was a deluge in Mumbai. It caught the administration unawares; all utility services broke down. I was one of those stranded, who spent the night under a flyover. I started wading back home at about …
Mangrove species are uniquely adapted to tropical and subtropical coasts, and although relatively low in number of species, mangrove forests provide at least US $1.6 billion each year in ecosystem services and support coastal livelihoods worldwide. Globally, mangrove areas are declining rapidly as they are cleared for coastal development and …
