Order of the Bombay High Court in the matter of Adani Cementation Limited Vs Union of India & Others dated 05/03/2025. Adani Cementation Limited approached the Bombay High Court seeking issuance of an order directing the respondents/ authorities to permit the petitioner to carry out the work of construction of …
Sangeetha Neeraja RESTORED Mangroves at Pichavaram played a role in mitigating the impact of Tsunami. Today, it stands as a precedent in evolving sustainable community centric conservation biosheild modules. M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, with many years of pioneering research, has developed models of mangrove and non-mangrove bioshield that has …
Forest Minister Binoy Viswom arriving for the meeting of forest officials, environmentalists and nature lovers at Mangalavanam on Sunday. KOCHI: The state government was studying the possibility of setting up a tree authority and bringing in the Tree Act in the state, said Forests Minister Benoy Viswom. The Minister said …
Camels grazing in the mangrove forest, small fishing boats anchored on shore and naked children playing with dead fish. This scene can be a great opening to a documentary however reality paints a different picture of it. No one knows the decades of pain the residents of Kaka Pir Goth, …
Mango production in the region is appeared to fall around 25 to 30 percent this season due to the continuous drought like climatic condition frustrating the farmers and the traders concerned. Horticulture scientists and the farmers said that the green mangoes are falling abnormally for the last couple of days …
Protection against coastal disasters has been identified as an important service of mangrove ecosystems. Empirical studies on this service have been criticized, however, for using small samples and inadequately controlling for confounding factors. We used data on several hundred villages to test the impact of mangroves on human deaths during …
The tsunami of December 26, 2004, devastated many coastal areas in Sri Lanka. Curiously, the tsunami spared several areas which had mangroves - dense forests of salt-resistant trees and shrubs that grow in brackish, low-lying coastal swamps in the tropics and subtropics. This clearly manifested in Bangladesh, which recorded very …
Commercial considerations are taking a heavy toll on the popular mangrove swamps in Sri Lanka, with environmentalists asking for effective measures to preserve them. Mangrove plants has helped in water flow and enhancing the possession of sediments in the water system. A study said healthy mangrove forests helped save Sri …
Environmental experts have expressed concern over the reduction of mangrove forests along the Sindh coast, warning that if the mangroves are not protected, the city fears a greater risk of being hit by a tsunami in the future.
Court to decide on airport in eco-sensitive zone THE Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has refused permission for the proposed Navi Mumbai International Airport. The ministry has asked the Maharashtra government to first get it cleared from the Bombay High Court. Eight hundred hectares (ha) of mangroves that …
Mangroves are typical group of plants which are adopted for survival in sheltered brackish-water habitats along coasts of tropical and sub-tropical regions. Maharashtra is one of the important coastal state
Keora (Sonnertia appetula) is the main species in the coastal region of Bangladesh. At present this species has no industrial or other application. In this paper, keora has been characterized and evaluated as a pulping raw material.
Digha-Junput coastline of Bay of Bengal, India is unique in its own peculiar features obtained through geomorphic changes. Natural colonization of certain mangrove and halophytes on mud flat could be noticed on this coastline. An exploration was taken for search and identification of naturally colonized halophytes and mangrove medicinal plants …
Mumbai A large belt of mangrove forest on the western bank of the Thane Creek has received a new lease of life after the Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee suggested steps to preserve and develop it on Wednesday. The committee, in a hearing on the private forest issue, has recommended …
NAVI MUMBAI: A large patch of lush mangroves adjacent to the railway tracks near Vashi station has been chopped indiscriminately. No official complaint has been lodged yet, but the hacked mangroves make for a jarring sight amid the healthy ones, claim commuters. Rishi Aggarwal of the Mangroves Society of India …
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday allowed the BMC to go ahead with its plans to set up sewage treatment plants and lay pipelines on coastal areas in the city, which house mangroves. A division bench of Justices J N Patel and Vijaya Kapse-Tahilramani asked the municipal corporation to …
But not as much as was thought, says a study SOIL erosion worldwide is threatening our agricultural base. Our farmers are suffering. The maximum amount of soil that an area can lose without affecting its ability to sustain plant growth is the soil loss tolerance value or the T value. …
NAVI MUMBAI: Following complaints from the tehsildars of Thane (Krishna Jadhav) and Panvel (Dattatray Kedare), the NRI police has booked several Navi Mumbai-based developers for allegedly destroying mangroves along the Palm Beach Road near Seawoods. According to their complaints, a large patch of mangroves has been destroyed because of dumping …
MUMBAI: Following several PILs filed in the Bombay high court, the state revenue department has declared 1,806 hectares of privately owned mangroves in the city as forests. The notification was issued by divisional commissioner S S Sandhu on February 24. "With this move preservation of mangroves can be carried out …
