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 …
Nagpur: The principal bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) at Delhi on Monday adjourned the hearing on road widening of NH-7 between 37km Mansar and Khawasa. The Maharashtra forest department on Monday brought in the big guns to defend their case in the NGT. As reported by TOI, the department …
Species will be numbered; details like height, age, health to be noted The Delhi Government has asked all civic agencies and DDA to conduct a tree census focusing on details like species, age, health and location of trees falling under their jurisdiction. The census is aimed at encouraging awareness of …
How many trees are there on earth? The latest estimate by a group of 38 researches across the world, published two weeks ago in the journal Nature, gives the colossal number of 3.04 trillion (or 3,040 billion) trees all across the globe. That leads to about 422 trees per person …
Security challenges have stalled the implementation of the Great Green Wall (GGW) project in the North-East, a check by the News Agency of Nigeria reveals. The project, which involves the establishment of shelterbelt across 1,500 kilometres in 11 states of the federation, is also facing inadequate disbursement of funds to …
Agra: In the matter related to felling of 4,000 trees in Taj's eco sensitive zone, the National Green Tribunal ordered both the state government and environmentalist MC Mehta to file their concluding reports before the final argument on October 19. According to information, the state government on Thursday stood on …
With rampant concretisation taking a toll on trees in Delhi, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday came down heavily on the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) which had slept over the task of preparing a report on de-concretisation for over a year now. The tribunal was displeased with the fact …
The NGT had last week issued showcause to Forest Department and NHAI as to why it should not initiate contempt proceedings for continuing to fell trees despite its order. The Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court has disapproved of wildlife activists opposing the National Highway (NH) widening project. During the …
MANALI: In a hope that the National Green Tribunal (NGT) will lift ban and resume tourist activities in Rohtang Pass after the area dons green cover, Manali is all set to launch a massive afforestation campaign in the area from Wednesday. The campaign will continue until the available thousands of …
Stung by the contempt proceedings admitted by principal bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) at Delhi, the Maharashtra government on Wednesday issued final permission to NHAI to divert 49.246 hectares forest land for NH-7 widening between Mansar and Khawasa. The state government issued final permission under Section 2 of the …
Cutting trees for timber has a devastating impact on birds, with a decline of more than 50 per cent recorded in Ghana's forests, a new study finds. Researchers found that the level of legal and illegal logging increased more than 600 per cent between 1995 and 2010 — six times …
Nagpur: Even as the principal bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) at New Delhi on Monday initiated contempt proceedings against the forest department and National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), tree felling continued on NH-7 for the four-laning project on Tuesday. A spot visit found that trees were being felled …
NAGPUR: The principal bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) at Delhi on Monday issued show-cause to chief general manager (CGM) of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), Nagpur, principal secretary (forests) and chief conservator of forests (CCF), asking why they should not be imprisoned and their properties confiscated for felling …
Exclusive: report has implications for proposed Shenhua coalmine after researchers found changing water table levels can affect the ecosystem several kilometres beyond mine boundaries A new study has found open-cut mines that modify groundwater levels can affect trees and ecosystems several kilometres away from mine sites. The study has implications …
There will be no respite from traffic jams on Rao Tula Ram Road stretch in south Delhi, at least till 2017.Construction of a parallel flyover to ease congestion has hit another roadblock, leaving little scope for the project to be completed by its deadline of November 2016. This time, the …
In a bid to curb desert encroachment and land degradation, Sokoto State Government has banned the practice of felling trees which some use as firewood for domestic purposes. Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal stated this Monday, at the flag-off of this year's tree planting campaign which held at Kawadata, Goronyo LGA …
Dak NONG (VNS) — Deforestation is on the rise in the Central Highland province of Dak Nong's Dak Song District. More than 30 cases have been detected and tackled since the rainy season started in May, the local forest management authority said. The 40-year-old protective pine forest along Highway 14 …
KOLKATA: Encouraged over the success of replanting tall trees, The West Bengal Waste Land Development Corporation (WBWLDC) will develop a 'tall tree nursery' over 5 acre of land at Rajarhat New Town where large trees that will be brought after uprooting from somewhere else will be kept with proper supervision …
City-based environment protection NGO Srushti Paryavaran Mandal on Thursday served a legal notice to principal chief conservator of forests (HOFF) stating that the ongoing felling of trees on NH7 is in contempt of orders of the principal bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT). It has asked the department to refrain …
Neyyattinkara-based Academy for Mountaineering and Adventure Sports in the city has come up with a new initiative. The panchayat-level inauguration of their venture, ‘Primary Environment Care Project’ was conducted the other day, at Kulathoor Panchayat. The project, with it’s tagline ‘Save Nature Pave Future’, aims at preserving the natural environmental …
There are slightly more than three trillion trees in the world according to the most comprehensive census yet of global forestation published in the journal Nature. — more than seven times the number previously estimated — according to a tally by an international team of scientists. The study also finds …
