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 …
GURUGRAM: The forest department has sought a break from tree-felling in view of the monsoon and would like instead to focus on proposed plantation drives for the next two months. “Our office gets a lot of requests for tree-felling. The staff members generally remain busy in inspecting sites and giving …
BHUBANESWAR: Regional Transport Office, Bhubaneswar has decided to launch 'one vehicle one plant' campaign during which each buyerwill be gifted a plant during delivery of new vehicle by the showrooms. “Automobile industry is a major contributor to the pollution levels. So we decided to launch a campaign of 'one vehicle …
NEW DELHI: Even as a citizen-led movement successfully halted the cutting of more than 16,000 trees in Delhi for redeveloping residential facilities, many felt compensatory afforestation by way of planting 10 saplings for every tree lost would not be able to match the services provided by fully grown native neighbourhood …
Order of the High Court of Delhi in the matter of Dr Kaushal Kant Mishra Vs Union of India & Others dated 04/07/2018 regarding felling of trees in Delhi for 'redevelopment'. Court directs the Government of NCT of Delhi to place all material before the court as to how equivalence …
The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) will launch a mega plantation drive on massive scale during monsoon season to create "urban forests" in Delhi to make the environment clean and green. The DSGMC has successfully planted around one lakh trees in the city in past five years to save …
Though ‘right to clean environment’ is one of the fundamental rights under Article 21 of the Constitution of India, it is also necessary for the same environment to be protected, said the judge. MADURAI: The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court directed the Member Secretary, Tamil Nadu State Legal Services …
Bareilly: Having found little information on environment-related issues in the syllabus of schoolchildren, district magistrate Virendra Kumar Singh has decided to draft an educational booklet to address the grave issue. DM said with the commencing of classes in July, booklets would be distributed among children of all government and private …
May sound strange to say that breathing is harmful, but it is truism in Chandigarh. Popularly called City Beautiful and acclaimed for its green and clean environs, the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana has recorded the highest-ever concentration of PM 2.5, a pollutant so fine that it can directly …
Mr Peter Amewu, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has urged the newly inaugurated board members of the Forest Plantation Development Fund to be united and steer the affairs of the fund. He charged the Board to come up with ideas to tackle the menace of illegal mining, which …
Governor Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday appealed people to make optimum individual efforts to maintain balance of environment so that the coming generation could be protected from the dangers of it. The Governor, while speaking during her inaugural speech of Environment Conclave cum Paryavaran Mela at Audrey House here on Tuesday, …
AMRITSAR: US-based NGO EcoSikh is planning to engage the Sikh community to plant a million trees around the planet to mark the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev. In a release issued on Tuesday, EcoSikh president Rajwant Singh said their goal was to reach out to Sikhs across the …
The Ministry of Finance has allocated GH¢144million over the next two-years to fund the ‘Greening Ghana’ initiative aimed at engaging 15,000 youth for the tree planting project under the Youth in Agriculture and Afforestation Module. The Greening Ghana programme is an initiative being spearheaded by Forestry Commission and is targetted …
Degrading air quality in metro cities is a matter of concern for public health. Massive tree plantation drives are often conducted in order to provide oxygen to choking cities. But trees, much like humans, also are severely affected by pollutants in the air. In such a situation, knowledge about trees …
An initiative geared towards the planting of about 20 million trees across Ghana by the year 2028 is to be launched in Tamale, Northern Region. Dubbed the Green Republic Project (GRP), the initiative, according to the initiators, Youth Icons Ghana, is a creative response to the challenge of climate crisis …
ADDIS ABABA—Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MFECC) said that it has been endeavoring to double the current forest coverage of the country to 30 percent in the coming 15 years. Speaking to The Ethiopian Herald, Forestry Resource Inventory and Management Director General at the Ministry, TeshomeTamrat said that …
Volunteers replant dozens of mangrove propagules or shoots in a field near the village of Amboanio in the Melaky Region in Madagascar, part of a WWF programme to restore the mangroves. Hunched over the soil, Malagasy villagers work feverishly—deft fingers planting stalks of mangrove to replace the swathes destroyed for …
Governor Moses Lenolkulal over the weekend led residents in planting 23,000 seedlings to restore a section of a forest in Loikas, Samburu Central, which was destroyed by human activity. The governor noted that livestock were a threat to the seedlings but said county officials would hold meetings with residents to …
The Ministry of Youth has announced plans to form youth groups focused on providing paid services in the protection of environment starting with the next financial year, the Minister for Youth has revealed. Minister Rosemary Mbabazi made the revelation on Wednesday while appearing before the parliamentary Standing Committee on National …
The average global surface temperature will increase between 1.5 degree Celsius and 4.5 degree Celsius by the end of this century due to climate change, according to a government report, said Siddhanta Das, Director General of Forests and Special Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests and Climate Change, here on …
Nagpur: The state forest department is considering to deploy drones, also called as unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs), for pre and post-monitoring of the 13-crore tree plantation drive to be undertaken from July 1 to 31. Recently, drones have found applicability in a variety of study fields, one of these being …
