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 …
Axing the future: According to Environmental Support Group, 50,000 trees were felled to widen a series of streets in the late 2000s. And between 2011 and 2014, 9,281 trees were felled for the City's metro and other road-widening projects. In the past decade, Bengaluru — once famous as India’s Garden …
The alleged cutting of thousands of trees in the Taj Mahal's special eco-sensitive zone and selling them off by a former DFO was raised in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. Replying to a question, Union minister for environment and forests, Prakash Javadekar, said it has sought a report from the …
In a bid to secure speedy green clearances for highways, the government plans to introduce a 'tree transplantation' clause in highway contracts that will require project developers to salvage as many trees as possible. The move comes at a time when road projects worth over Rs 30,000 crore are stuck …
A planning blunder has led to the destruction of almost 900 towering old native trees after VicRoads severely underestimated the environmental impact of a highway project it is managing. Road safety is our utmost priority and roadside trees can be a hazard in run off road accidents. Many of the …
Justice Swatanter Kumar, chairperson of National Green Tribunal (NGT), principal bench, at Delhi on Wednesday squarely blamed respondents MoEFCC, NHAI, and Maharashtra Forest Department for the NH7 road widening mess created due to Nagpur bench of Bombay high court's orders conflicting with NGT's own. Justice Kumar also spoke about how …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on cutting of trees in Taj Mahal’s special eco-sensitive zone, 06/08/2015. As per a newspaper report dated 3rd July, 2015 illegal cutting of around 4,000 trees in the 500-metre-radius of the Taj Mahal and 8,000 trees in Babupur forest block of Agra Division has come …
Nagpur: With the motive to increase greenery in urban areas, the state government has planned public participation to conserve and plan forest areas. Also, the government has set a target to plant 100 crore plants in three years. The state's revenue and forest department has issued two notifications on Tuesday. …
What's driving tropical deforestation? It's all about resettlement projects. Scientists have found that these projects are largely responsible for the disappearance of trees in the Amazon. Agrarian and reform settlements have been created throughout the Brazilian Amazon since the early 1970s at an unprecedented scale. In this latest study, though, …
The Himachal Niti Abhiyan, an NGO, has appealed to the state government to implement the Forest Rights Act, 2006. Guman Singh, state convener of the NGO, in a statement here today underlined the need for implementing the Act on priority to protect rights of villagers and farmers in the state. …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday ordered Leading Hotels to pay Rs 5 lakh as penalty for felling trees on May 14/15 in Tiracol. The amount that is to be deposited in an escrow account, a temporary account till the final hearing, was imposed on the developers for felling …
The Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) on Sunday launched a massive drive to plant 31,000 trees in the city. The drive was launched at the city forest on the banks of Hindon river where GDA officials, members of civil defence and Paryavaran Sachetak Dal planted 3,000 trees. "The city forest has …
In a bid to create awareness among the people to preserve nature, the students in Vadodara tied friendship bands to trees and plants on the occasion of World Friendship Day. While most people celebrate their friendship by exchanging gifts or tying colourful bands on each other's wrists, the commerce faculty …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of Muthukumaran Vs The State of Tamil Nadu dated 03/08/2015 regarding felling of trees in Survey No. 628/2, S. Kodikulam village, Koomapatti, Tamil Nadu and also to direct the respondents to find an alternative suitable site which does …
In the virtual worlds of climate modeling, forests and other vegetation are assumed to bounce back quickly from extreme drought. But that assumption is far off the mark, according to a new study of drought impacts at forest sites worldwide. Living trees took an average of two to four years …
National Green Tribunal (NGT) has slapped a penalty of Rs 15 lakh on a former sarpanch and a gram sevak for felling 3,000 trees from the forest area of a village and has ordered the same to be deposited with the forest officer of the region in a month from …
Environmentalists who had opposed the plan put forward by the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) to cut down around 6,000 trees on the Kazhakoottam-Mukkola stretch, have suggested an alternative to save maximum number of trees on the stretch. The greens have pointed out that around 60% of the trees …
The felling of Ashoka trees along a stretch on the Mall road last week has again raised concerns over the issue among various NGOs. Raising an alarm over the dwindling green cover and protesting against the felling of trees, most of them have lost hopes of recovery of the green …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Amit Srivastav Vs. Dr. Chandan Kumar & Others dated 29/07/2015. This application seeks prosecution of Dr. Chander Kumar, Principal of Satyawati College, Delhi University on the allegations of having illegally and unauthorisedly fell and destroyed 17 …
The Bombay High Court has asked the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) how it has issued permissions for cutting trees when the civic authority has not yet conducted a digitized tree census as directed by the court in an order passed in 2013. The issue came up last week before the …
In a partial relief to the state, the HP High Court today permitted the Chief Secretary and the Principal Secretary (Forests) to sell crops on the encroached forest land. The money earned from its sale should be used for plantation of trees and its preservation. It further directed them to …
