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 …
MAPUSA: A well-known historian and a group of nature lovers led a chipko movement and held a protest to save 200 coconut trees on a 2 km stretch at Guirim on Monday evening. A group of nature lovers headed by well known historian Prajal Sakhardande hugged the coconut tress and …
The ruling notes that the concept of “nature as a true subject of rights that must be recognized by states and exercised under the tutelage of their legal representatives.” Colombia’s constitutional court grants rights to the Atrato River and orders the government to clean up its waters The Atrato River …
The watchdog NGO Mighty Earth followed up its February investigation into deforestation for soybean production and found that companies are sourcing from farms in Brazil and Bolivia where clearance is still occurring. New soy-driven forest destruction exposed in South America Mighty Earth looked at updated satellite imagery from 28 sites …
Published in the Journal of Earth System Science in February, the study investigated the distribution of forest cover in India by reconstructing the previous forest cover and predicted the ever-continuing deforestation in selected parts of India with high deforestation rates. New Delhi: The future of India's green cover has been …
The court did not approve of a road being built through the forest. The national capital can turn into a desert if the green cover and forest land fall prey to illegal construction and encroachment, the Delhi High Court has observed. It said this environmental issue was a matter of …
The World Bank has announced the signing of a $5.5 million grant agreement to manage the natural resources of Ghana. The Bank signed the agreement with Solidaridad West Africa for the management of natural resources in 53 selected local communities of the Brong-Ahafo and Western Regions of Ghana, it said …
MUMBAI: The Supreme Court has lifted a stay on felling of trees at various places along the 33.5km Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Metro III corridor. The Bombay high court had on May 5 vacated its order, which restrained Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) Ltd from cutting trees for the project. But it had …
Dar es Salaam — Tanzania faces a decline in wildlife population and environmental degradation due to population growth, environmental mismanagement and economic activities, a report indicates. The 2016 Tanzania Human Rights Report by the Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) points out some other causes as climate change, poverty, poaching …
Small and medium-scale agriculture is responsible for 80 percent of the deforestation between 2001 and 2015. According to experts of the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) controlling the deforestation will be difficult because “it is everywhere and in small patches.” Peru lost more than 1 million hectares of …
Nagpur: In over two years, not a single person has been convicted for illegally felling trees in the city. The garden department of Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has filed cases against only 14 people in this period. This was revealed in the reply to a RTI query filed by Abhay …
Investing in forest and landscape restoration as well as ensuring their sustainability will improve livelihoods of African people. The call was made by experts during a two-day Forest and Landscape Investment Forum in Kigali on Tuesday. The experts called for investments to make green cover of more than 100 million …
Cocaine traffickers attempting to launder their profits are responsible for the disappearance of millions of acres of tropical forest across large swaths of Central America, according to a report. The study, published on Tuesday in the journal Environmental Research Letters, found that drug trafficking was responsible for up to 30% …
Stakeholders in the forestry management recently validated the draft document of the National Forest Investment Plan of the ECOWAS member states in the framework of the Technical Cooperation Programme (TCR)/FAO/3506 support project that is geared towards supporting the implementation of the West Africa Forest Convergence Plan. The move is in …
KOLKATA: Alarmed by the uprooting of 23 full-grown trees in Saturday evening's 60-second squall, botanists, environmentalists and ecologists have called for a tree management plan to save the city's greenery, which is facing rapid depletion threat. Green experts seem unanimous in their view that human factors cause most trees to …
The Kilifi government plans to plant 1.8 million trees in the next two months. The exercise follows a week of heavy rains after months of drought. Environment chief officer Andrew Makoti and assistant director Elizabeth Sidi told journalists in Kilifi town that the exercise is undertaken by his department in …
IDUKKI: The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment and Forest, chaired by former minister Renuka Chaudhary, on Wednesday took a direct account of the impact of deforestation and excessive construction activities on the ecology of Munnar. The committee members also interacted with representatives of NGOs and civil society and collected details …
There is now one set of guidelines, agreed upon by both industry and civil society, for palm oil companies to use when implementing their commitments to address the deforestation associated with their operations. Industry-NGO coalition releases toolkit for making ‘No Deforestation’ commitments a reality on the ground Numerous companies involved …
BLANTYRE, Malawi, May 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Last November, rangers in Malawi's Lengwe National Park arrested 35 illegal loggers within the park boundaries as they felled timber with a half-million dollars worth of equipment brought in via an illegal road from neighbouring Mozambique. Satellite images suggest about a million …
Tanzania Forestry Services (TFS) has insisted that the ban on export of forest products wouldn't be lifted. TFS Chief Executive Professor Dos Santos Silayo made the statement on Wednesday during a meeting between Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism staffs. Prof Silayo said the …
Indonesia's environment and forestry ministry wants to extend a moratorium on issuing new licences to use primary forest and peatland in the Southeast Asian country by two years, an official said on Wednesday. The moratorium was established under the previous administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in a bid to …
