Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of In Re: Zudpi Jungle Lands. A batch of applications involved a peculiar issue concerning the situation prevailing in the six districts of eastern Vidarbha region namely Nagpur, Wardha, Bhandara, Gondia, Chandrapur and Gadchiroli. The issue pertains to the status of the …
PARADIP: With the Central Government virtually breathing down its neck to expedite work on the much delayed Posco project, the State Government has asked the district administration to convene a meeting of the Rehabilitation and Periphery Development Advisory Committee next month. President of South Korea Lee Myung Bak, is said …
KOCHI: As the Kochi Metro dream comes closer to reality, environmentalists in the city are in a celebratory mood as the multi-crore project will bring along with it a green cover management plan as part of the compensatory afforestation programme. But they are also concerned by the fact that the …
BHUBANESWAR: The Government is facing a lot of flak from the public and social organisations for the large-scale felling of roadside trees. Even as the Works Department justified the cutting of trees for widening of the main thoroughfare of the city, activists of Prerana, a voluntary organisation protested during felling …
The Centre is coming out with a new mechanism to encourage states to maintain and enhance forest covers. The policy which is in the design stage, aims at giving special
The Central Empowered Committee (CEC) has come down heavily on the state government for allowing illegal construction and widening of a road inside Tungareshwar Wildlife Sanctuary by the Balyogi Shree Sadanand Maharaj Ashram Sanstha. The CEC in a report submitted on September 29 has recommended to the Supreme Court to …
The government has taken an initiative to amend the Bangladesh Environment Protection Act- 1995 for making it time- befitting to address the environmental hazards and protect the nature. State minister for land Mostafizur Rahman yesterday informed the House that the draft of the amendments to the act has been sent …
LEH: Anyone visiting Ladakh for the first time can be left gasping for breath due to low oxygen levels in the high altitude region. But a successful plantation drive has brought about environmental changes-driving up oxygen content by 50% and, most unusually, making it rain, say Indian scientists.
Labourer Has Single-Handedly Nurtured 2,500 Trees Since 2001 Vijaysinh Parmar | TNN Khambha (Amreli district): Those entering the sleepy town of Khambha in Amreli district by bus won
Task of planting the saplings has been taken up by the Forest Department SOCIAL CONCERN: Dharmapala Swamy of Adi Chunchanagiri Shakhamath watering a saplinng planted by him near Hampankatta in Mangalore on Sunday. MANGALORE: Plans are afoot to grow 2,000 flowering plants in the city. Vijaya Kumar, District Forest Officer, …
NAGERCOIL: The Department of Forest has decided to plant seven lakh saplings under Tamil Nadu Afforestation Programme with financial assistance from Japan, said the District Forest Officer, V. Sundarraju. Addressing a seminar on
The Chhotanagpur Catholic Mission Cooperative Credit Society is celebrating 100 years of its success by planting saplings. This year, it has distributed a loan of Rs 1 crore among villagers across the state for planting trees. About 10,000 villagers from across Jharkhand have benefited from this novel initiative. They received …
In those South American countries where forest plantations are important or have potential for development, investment in them is one option for creating jobs.
The Delhi Statement on Cooperation in Environment by ministers of environment belonging to member states of SAARC at the meeting in New Delhi on 20th October 2009. The ministers have agreed on specific joint actions to further strengthen environmental governance, biodiversity conservation, and climate change cooperation. The Environment Ministers of …
In 2007, when the Bali Action Plan introduced REDD as a possible method of mitigating climate change, it thereby expanded the potential role of forests in the post-2012 climate change regime. Forests have the capacity not only to
