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 …
Agra: The UP forest department plans to construct boundary walls around forests on the sides of highways at a cost of Rs 35 crore. It also plans to get a survey of the forest cover in Agra done. Supreme Court had earlier ordered the department to go ahead with its …
The viability and environmental risks of removing carbon dioxide from the air must be assessed if we are to achieve the Paris goals, writes Phil Williamson.
The statement was made by Tarun Johri, Conservator of Forests, defending the approvals granted by the forest department to cut full grown “old trees” in the city. In a bizarre explanation for the “need to cut old trees” in the capital, a senior official of the Forest Department informed the …
Moshi — Kilimanjaro Regional Commissioner (RC) Mr Amos Makalla has ordered Moshi Rural District to ensure it plants 1.5 million trees this year. Mr Makalla reminded Moshi District authorities and the district council that this was the national target and wondered why there were no serious efforts to beat the …
Nepal prepared and communicated INDC report to UNCCC. By 2050, Nepal will achieve 80% electrification through renewable energy sources having appropriate energy mix. Nepal will also reduce its dependency on fossil fuels by 50%. Achievement of the following targets through its National Rural and Renewable Energy Programme (NRREP). Maintaining 40% …
Officials in northeast China are planning a resident resettlement and afforestation project to double the size of a key migration corridor for wild Siberian tigers and Amur leopards that has become overpopulated with the endangered cats. Chinese and Russian conservationists estimate their protection has taken the number of tigers and …
The Global Environment Facility Partners Network (GPN) has embarked on an initiative to plant 10,000 trees in several districts in Malawi’s Lilongwe, Mzimba and Chikwawa to mitigate against the effects of climate change in the country.GPN chairperson Maynard Nyirenda said Wednesday that the network gives a platform several organizations working …
To help India meet its climate targets agreed upon in Paris, the Indian industry will need to meet their obligations to move towards a low-carbon economy even as they capitalise on new business opportunities, the government said on Wednesday. "There are huge opportunities in renewables across generation, evacuation, storage as …
The environment minister, Greg Hunt, says the federal government will establish its vision for improved urban tree coverage within 18 months. Speaking to reporters in Sydney on Tuesday, he said the government would work directly with cities throughout 2016 and 2017 to set decade-by-decade goals for the creation of “urban …
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Climate Change has drafted the national forest policy and consultation among authorities concerned on it has entered its final stage, according to a senior official of the ministry. The official said on Sunday that the draft had been finalised with the help of all stakeholders. “Revised …
For the past six years, researchers at the Universitat Politènica de València (Polytechnic Univeristy of Valencia, UPV) have been studying the performance of twelve Aleppo pine varieties native to different regions of Spain in reforestation campaigns across three national forest areas. Different varieties or genotypes have different levels of resistance …
KOLKATA: The city's choking pollution level has nudged the Mamata Banerjee government into action, with government officials drawing up a proposal for a green drive. The state environment department has decided to set up a panel, which will draft measures for aforestation, plan surveys and suggest means to maintain the …
The 15-member committee is headed by chief secretary The State government has reconstituted the special team set up to restore the forest lands, including at Jakkur Allalasandra reserve forest, in the City. The special team, was initially constituted on October 1, 2015, under the chairmanship of senior IFS officer and …
HYDERABAD: The urban biodiversity (parks) wing of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has woken up from deep slumber and plans to take up measures in the next financial year to increase the green cover in the city. In the last two years there was not much tree plantation or development of …
Days after India submitted its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) before COP21, the Union Cabinet on Tuesday gave its ex post-facto approval to the document. INDCs were voluntary pledges that countries made to cut carbon pollution at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Paris from November 30 …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Afforestation in Wastelands, 22/12/2015. In 2015-16, IWMP has been amalgamated as the Watershed Development Component of the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY). Under IWMP/PMKSY, a total of 8214 projects have been sanctioned for the treatment of an area of 39.07 million ha so …
Some 2.5% of Rwanda’s land will be planted with trees while the public is also be advised to use less charcoal. This was in an effort to protect the environment and avail forest resources needed for economic development and the improvement of livelihoods of Rwandans. The launch of the 2015/16 …
Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board has shown deep commitment toward conservation and protection of environment and ecology of Trikuta Hills and has taken effective steps to increase the green cover in the area around the Holy Cave Shrine. Governor N N Vohra, who is the Chairman of Shri Mata …
Hundreds of landless farmers, agricultural workers and labourers from across 20 States assembled at Jantar Mantar here on Tuesday under a joint platform ‘Bhumi Adhikar Andolan’ (Land Rights Movement) and observed December 15 (Forest Rights Day) as ‘Chetavni Divas’ — day of challenge and warning. Addressing a gathering, social activist …
THE Sustainable Afforestation Association (SAA) is on course completing a total 8 000 hectares of new eucalyptus plantations in just three years, in a massive private-sector offensive against tobacco-related deforestation, but that will not be all that's needed in an industry, which is seen as both an environmental curse and …
