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 …
President Asif Ali Zardari has directed that no construction project shall be approved by executing/building control agency unless the sponsor of the project makes specific provision in terms of expenditure (budget/PC-1) for plantation of trees and shrubs, both inside and outside the parameters of such construction unit. The President gave …
This paper analyses the terrestrial carbon balance of China during the 1980s and 1990s using biomass and soil carbon inventories extrapolated by satellite greenness measurements, ecosystem models and atmospheric inversions. These three methods produce similar estimates of a net sink of 0.19
Ministry of Environment has sent a summary to the Federal Cabinet to retrieve the forest land being used for other purposes like developing housing colonies on a large scale, as deforestation is increasing at alarming speed because of urbanisation. This was stated by Hameed Ullah Jan Afridi while talking to …
The chief secretary of Sindh has asked the secretary of industries and the managing director of SITE to convene a meeting of industrialists of SITE area and ensure maximum tree plantation in the limits of the industrial zone. Fazalur Rehman issued the directive while reviewing the progress made on the …
As horticulture department embarks on promotion activities A short in the arm: Farmers in the district have started taking up bamboo cultivation under the National Bamboo Mission.
Imagine travelling along BRTS stretch under a canopy of mangoes & chikooS Paul John TNN Ahmedabad: If you have been dreading the thought of cycling or taking a walk along the BRTS corridor in the sweltering Ahmedabad heat, there may be some relief round the corner. A renewed landscaping plan …
R. Rajaram GREEN COVER: A teak sapling planted in Bharathidasan University campus in Tiruchi. TIRUCHI: Revenue Department has identified over 1,000 hectares of lands in the district to enable Forest Department undertake planting of saplings under the Central Government
Sri Lanka government is planning to plant 2 million young plants to mark this year's Sinhala and Hindu New year dawning tomorrow. Sri Lanka's Co-operative Department has organized this program under the theme of "let's plant today and pick a fruit tomorrow." According to the Co-operative Department the first tree …
CHENNAI: The need for increasing the green cover in the city was stressed by C.K. Sreedharan, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Head of Forest Force, Tamil Nadu, here on Saturday. Participating in the
KOLLAM: Poet Sugathakumari will inaugurate the Campus Green Project at Member Sree Narayana Pillai Institute of Management and Technology at Sasthamcotta on Wednesday by planting a sapling. The students of the college have undertaken the project as the first phase of converting Mukundapuram into a `green village.
Tree plantation has been better in recent years compared to the past. But equal enthusiasm is not there to stop deforestation. Bangladesh has to stop deforestation to consolidate gains of its afforestation programmes. There is still a long way to go for this country to reach the environmentally safe goal …
BEIJING: Chinese President Hu Jintao and other senior leaders joined millions of people in Beijing for voluntary tree planting on Sunday morning. Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, He Guoqiang and Zhou Yongkang also took part in the activity at a new park in the western …
Ahmedabad : Volunteers of youth groups YuVA Unstoppable and Living Crisis organised a tree plantation drive on Sunday. Over 1,000 saplings were planted by members of YuVA Unstoppable at Sardar Patel Institute of Economic & Science Research and Consumer Education and Research Centre (CERC) near Thaltej. Around 80 members participated …
A week-long plantation drive was launched at Kashmir University today. The plantation drive is being organised by the NSS and Landscape Development wings of the varsity.
Sustainable forest management is a comprehensive framework that includes all sustainable development aspects and has huge potential in strategies and actions to address climate change. What is required however, are actions which ensure that climate change and sustainable forest management policies and programmes are mutually supportive. Care must be taken …
mauritius Outsourcing agriculture Soaring food prices and lack of land have forced Mauritius, a food-importing country, to launch an ambitious initiative. The island nation is growing its food in other African countries where land remains fallow and labour cheap.
Apex court steps in, asks states for afforestation plans THE bill that proposed centralized management of funds, collected in lieu of permission to divert forestland to non-forest uses, was defeated in the Rajya Sabha on February 25. Members of the house objected to the bill saying centralized forest fund management …
