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 …
Bangladesh had successfully stopped the trend of deforestation rather country’s forest coverage increased by around five percent during the regime of the government, said Environment and Forest Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud yesterday. He was addressing a workshop of United Nations climate financing mechanism in forestry sector REDD at Cirdap auditorium …
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has accorded stage-I forest clearance to a redesigned Luhri project with the installed capacity scaled down from 775 MW to 588 MW to address environment concerns.The Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) of the ministry has also recommended the project for an environment clearance with …
New Delhi: The government is set to revise the levy charged from project developers for using forestland. It has asked the Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM) to submit a report within three months on revising the net present value of forestland, which is charged from project developers as part …
BHOPAL: Urban Administration and Development minister, Babulal Gaur has said that Bhopal's Shahpura hillock will be developed as beautiful city forest. He said an action plan for the hillock's development will be chalked out soon in coordination with the municipal corporation, tourism development corporation and capital project administration (CPA). The …
The controversial multi-million dollar Multi Stakeholder Forestry Programme (MSFP) is set to be launched from this month after delaying for almost a year. The programme, has selected six non-government organisations to implement the project in selected 23 districts in the country for the next four years. According to Akhilesh Lal …
Government-backed campaign aims to double Caribbean country's forest cover by 2016 Haiti aims to plant 50m trees a year in a pioneering reforestation campaign to address one of the primary causes of the country's poverty and ecological vulnerability. President Michel Martelly will launch the drive to double forest cover by …
ITC, Yes Bank, HCL, Infosys, ONGC. More and more businesses are now realising there are long-term benefits in going green. Nothing shakes businesses as much as resource scarcity. With certain sectors like cement, steel and it being energy and water-intensive, the fear of climate change impacting the very resources that …
Lucknow: The government is keen on increasing the green cover in the state. To realise the plantation target, forest department is planting trees on vacant forest land, roadsides, alongside canals as well as gram sabha land in collaboration with other departments. The department has planted about 3,200 ‘kanak champa’ plants …
A proposed 12-km detour of the new Dedicated Freight Corridor passing through the ecologically fragile taluka of Dahanu in Thane district has raised protests from local farmers, including tribals, and also brought into play the role of the statutory body in charge of protecting the area, which is yet to …
The country's forest areas now stand at 17.08 percent which was 7 to 8 percent during the previous government, Environment and Forests Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud told parliament on Wednesday. "The government has taken a number of important programmes to increase the forest areas for protecting the country's overall environment," …
Health Minister V.S. Vijay inaugurated the scheme of planting 65,000 tree saplings in Vellore district in connection with the celebration of the 65th birthday of Chief Minister Jayalalithaa by planting 65 saplings on the premises of the Government Vellore Medical College Hospital (GVMCH) at Adukkamparai near here on Sunday. P. …
Its double taxation for people or agencies wanting a No Objection Certificate (NOC) to transfer forest land into non-forest use in the state, as the cash strapped Punjab government has levied a green cess - terming it as user charges - in addition to fees charged by the Centre. Highly …
GUWAHATI: Guwahati Municipal Corporation’s (GMC) ambitious urban social plantation project has hit a roadblock. Due to the ‘indifferent attitude’ of the Guwahati Development Department (GDD), this project has not been able to take off. A GMC official said, “Guwahati has become a concrete jungle. Due to rapid growth of population …
The government’s plan to increase and improve the quality of India’s forests has run into a wall due to shortage of funds. The Green India Mission, which is part of the government’s National Action Plan on Climate Change, has set a goal of increasing forest cover by 5 million hectares …
The environment ministry has changed forest clearance norms for mining projects to make them simpler and discourage firms from acquiring excess land. In an order issued on February 1, the ministry said mine developers would have to seek forest clearance for the entire lease area instead of the current practice …
The Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) has recommended diverting over 500 hectares of forest land for an iron ore mining project in the Saranda forest division of Jharkhand, part of the core area of the Singhbhum Elephant Reserve, India's first reserve for elephants. The FAC is a statutory body that advises …
One of the world's biggest pulp and paper companies said it would stop using timber from Indonesia's natural forests and only use trees from plantations in a drive that an environmental group said may be a milestone if the company keeps its promise. Tropical Indonesia is seen as an important …
RANCHI: The Khunti district in the past has been feared for Red terror but there is a success story there too in which the conservation of biodiversity was done by roping the village community. This not only provided various sources of livelihood but also stopped migration which was a major …
Afforestation, planting trees in an area where there have previously been no trees, can reduce the effect of climate change by cooling temperate regions, finds a study in BioMed Central's open access journal Carbon Balance and Management. Afforestation would lead to cooler and wetter summers by the end of this …
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has sought Rs 462 crore in its budgetary allocation for improving the forest cover in India by five million hectares over the next 10 years as part of the Green India Mission. This is a substantial increase from Rs 4 crore allocated in …
