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 …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Santosh Mittal & Ors Vs. State of Rajasthan & Others dated 14/03/2017 regarding illegal mining in Alwar, Rajasthan. The stone crushers in Harayana had been receiving illegal raw material in the form of mineral from Rajasthan. …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal dated 07/03/2017 in the matter of Sadi Ram Vs Ministry of Environment & Forest & Others regarding mining operations without Environment Clearance in village Chokuni, District Almora, Uttarakhand. NGT directs payment of environmental compensation of Rs. 5 lakh for illegal and unauthorized felling/cutting of …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Anil V. Tharthare V/s Secretary, Environment Department & Ors dated 06/03/2017 regarding cutting of the trees for a housing society, Gandhi Nagar, Bandra East, Mumbai.It is brought to the court's notice that the Tree Authority has granted permission to cut …
Additional Government Pleader Kavita Solanki, appearing for the government, submitted a development plan of the area showing the layout plan. The Bombay High Court on Friday appointed a two-member committee to visit the Nahar Amrit Shakti Township, located in Chandivali, and inspect whether the developer has excavated a hill, cut …
BUON DON, Vietnam – Only around 80 elephants remain in the wild in Vietnam, as the threat of humans and deforestation becomes ever greater, pushing their population to the brink of imminent extinction if sufficient measures are not taken to protect their habitat. “There were at least 500 wild elephants …
Cape Town – A full public participation process will have to take place to determine whether tree felling at Tokai Forest will resume, the Western Cape High Court has ordered. Judge Patrick Gamble’s ruling was the culmination of months of an emotionally charged court battle between community-based organisation Parkscape and …
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Authorities in Democratic Republic of Congo have expelled a filmmaker and researcher working for Greenpeace following a trip to forest communities affected by industrial logging. The expulsions last month follow similar moves against foreign researchers over the past year that have drawn accusations the government is cracking …
To conduct the analysis, the UFZ researchers used standardised data from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR- PEN project), based on surveys of village communities in 233 representatively selected villages in tropical regions of Africa, Asia and South America between 2005 and 2010. The interviewees were inhabitants from mostly …
Bauchi — A local government area in Bauchi State has introduced measures to curb the menace of tree felling. The caretaker committee chairman of Ganjuwa Local Government Area, Dr. Alqassim Ibrahim, said tree felling is among major impediments in the fight against environmental degradation and deforestation. He said five people …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Nanik Rupani & Anr. Vs Secretary MoEF & Ors dated 28/02/2017 regarding devastation due to hill-cutting and tree felling in Lonavala, Pune, Maharashtra. NGT restrains M/s Vikas Developers from hill cutting in the project area of …
Gurgaon: Only 565 environmental norm violations were reported in Gurgaon and Mewat areas of Aravali Hills between April 1992 and March 2015, and no action has been taken against any officials so far, according to an RTI reply. Of the 565 violations, 524 were filed in the court, which hears …
पर्यावरण संरक्षण को लेकर लापरवाही चरम पर पहुंच चुकी है। शहर के मुख्य तीन चौराहों के नजदीक लगभग छह हजार पेड़ों को काटने के बदले कहां पौधे लगाए जाएंगे, इस बारे में कोई प्ला¨नग नहीं की गई। न ही इस बारे में वन विभाग ने ध्यान दिया और न ही …
A study released this month by TRAFFIC, an NGO that monitors the wildlife trade, finds that governance has been so lacking in the forests of Madagascar in recent years that hundreds of thousands of trees have been cut down illegally in protected areas. More than 350,000 trees were felled between …
HSBC has today adopted a ‘No Deforestation, No Peat and No Exploitation' policy following a high-profile investigation by Greenpeace in which the environmental charity alleged the bank has been financing palm oil companies with links to deforestation. In a statement issued by the bank today, HSBC chief executive Stuart Gulliver …
An association working for the protection of Taj Mahal has moved the NGT alleging tree felling in the eco-sensitive zone near the 17th century mausoleum prompting the green panel today to seek response from the Centre and the UP government. A bench headed by National Green Tribunal (NGT) Chairman Justice …
The new gecko was discovered in a reserve in northern Madagascar, a region threatened by deforestation. It is a new member of the "fish-scaled" gecko genus. All other species have large, shed-able scales, but G. megalepis has the largest of all. The geckos so easily shed their scales (along with …
Rakai — Government has deployed a combined force of UPDF soldiers and police in Malabigambo Central Forest Reserve in Kyebe Sub-county, Rakai District, to fight illegal logging. This follows reports that National Forestry Authority (NFA) supervisors in the district have been colluding with police officers to clear truck-loads of illegal …
A million trees are to be planted in Ethiopia to fight deforestation around camps hosting hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese refugees who rely almost entirely on wood for fuel, a United Nations agency said on Wednesday. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said the trees would be planted …
The government of Equatorial Guinea has moved its headquarters from the coastal capital of Malabo to an unfinished city deep in the rainforest. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema aims to use the country's oil wealth to make Djibloho a "city of the future". Security, and safety from any attempt to overthrow …
The Eastern Zone Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued a notice to all the respondents, including Tata Steel and the Odisha government, following a petition seeking an injunction on alleged illegal construction of boundary walls and cutting of trees by Tata Steel for the proposed extension of …
