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 …
The Supreme Court (SC), on May 8 and 9, issued its latest order on the issue of the ban on non-forest, activities in the country. On December 12,1996, the apex court had imposed a blanket ban on the movement of timber within and from the northeast to any part of …
In mid-1984, the National Remote Sensing Agency had published two sets of forest cover data, one for the period 1972-75 and another for the period 1980-82. This data shocked the nation because it revealed that during the span of these seven years, the country had lost 1.3 million hectares of …
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) had sent this analysis based on the data provided by the Forest Survey of India and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, to several prominent individuals and government and non-government office-holders requesting them to forward their comments on the article. …
SEVERAL other issues gradually begin to emerge as the FAO data on the natural forest cover in India is further analysed. Unfortunately, after the old 1980 FAO data for India, FAO has not produced comparative data for 1990. In other words, the total undisturbed forest area in the country in …
For the state of forest reports to move away from being a smokescreen on India's forest cover and become a tool for enlightenment and intelligent decision-making, they must provide better classified forest cover data. First, the area under plantations and natural forests needs to be clearly separated out. Second, the …
THE FAO assessment claims that in 1990, India had a forest cover of 70.63 mha, of which 51.73 mha were natural forests and plantations another 18.90 mha. A similar FAO study regarding the 1980 forest cover had claimed that then India had a forest cover of 60.42 mha of which …
A: More questions than answers While the forest policy churned out by the government is not being implemented properly, reports on forests only tend to contradict themselves FOREST management practices in India at present could be said to be just a little short of hitting the nadir. The forest policy …
In Badin district of Pakistan, trees are being indiscriminately chopped down along canals, distributaries and roads in a display of utter disregard for the environment. Besides inflicting heavy economic losses on the government, the activity smacks of sheer callousness. Every year, the government spends millions of rupees for its tree …
ANIL AGARWAL has brought out the discrepancy between the extent of India's forest cover as reported by The State of Forest Report (SFR) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and has also highlighted some of the changes that have taken place in the area under dense forest cover, natural …
NO FIRM data are available to account for the extent of loss of forest cover in India or the annual rate of deforestation. In fact, estimates vary so widely that a degree of combativeness frequently prevails. Remote sensing data revealed massive loss of forest cover during 1981-85 - to the …
ANIL AGARWAL has raised many important points regarding the status of India's forests with reference to the SFR 1995 by the PSI and the FAO's assessment for 1980 and 1990. The paper commends PSI reports for their transparency and accountability but they may not help much in learning about the …
MY INITIAL response is on the tenor of the article, that foresters are responsible for the mismanagement and degradation of forests. I feel that India continues to have forested areas only because of the efforts of foresters, who, during the last 125 years, have striven for conservation of forests. But …
A panel committee, formed under the Union ministry of environment and forests (MEF), and headed by former MEF secretary R Rajamani, has reportedly conducted an indLpth survey on forest conservation, reasons for the loss of forest cover and the levels of degradation of forests in the northeastern states. The committee …
The Supreme Court order was issued by Justices J S Verma and B N Kripal. It stated that: • prior approval of the Centre will be required for any non-forest activity within the area of everyforest. All ongoing activity, including mining and running saw and veneer mills, within any forest …
ON DECEMBER 12, 1996, a far-reaching interim order of the Supreme Court (SC) changed the nature and extent of conservation in India at one stroke. While giving its ruling in a 1995 case filed against the Union of India by one T N Godavarman Thirumulkpad, the SC pointed out that …
Althoughetrict checking is reportecilly done on every mode of transportation from northeastern states to admit parts of the country, the forest amfla operating In the region has been reporting to various plays to dety'the Supreme Caurts ban. For instance, in order to es;cape checking, wood Is smuggled out after being …
A. The quick and the dead Human pressure, lack of research and shrinking forests coupled with a thriving international trade in wildlife threatens to turn a zoologist's Garden of Eden into a poacher's paradise on november 25, 1996, Vietnamese Premier Vo Van Kiet issued a dire warning to his audience …
The present century has seen very few discoveries of new mammalian species. Of the four discovered so far, Vietnam itself accounts for three. In the 1990s, two new species of big mammals
