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 …
The question today, therefore, is: Is the rosy picture presented by the ncaer survey of 1992-93 equally applicable to these areas? The 1991 census also shows that states with large tracts of hills and mountains like the Northeastern states and those with dry regions like Rajasthan are still heavily dependent …
One factor that no study has been able to analyse is to what extent the farmers of India have reacted to the firewood crisis and started to grow trees on their farmlands and private fallow lands or protect their forests. Surely, one would expect a rational economic response from farmers …
The firewood crisis has not resulted in a forest crisis. For years, energy experts and foresters have believed that the poor will eat away the forests of the developing world like locusts in order to meet their ever-growing firewood demand. But how much do we really know about the poor …
James Fenton, ecological advisor to the Natural Trust of Scotland, says it is incorrect to say that human activity has destroyed the native woods of the Scottish Highlands. He adds that conservationists who are trying to recreate the ancient Caledonian pine forest by planting native trees risk destroying natural moorlands …
in a bid to increase forest cover and provide employment to landless farmers, the Indian Farm Forestry Development Co-operative ( iffdc ), has put forward a proposal to the Global Environment Facility for undertaking co-operative farming for afforestation. Under the project, thousands of hectares of wasteland given to co-operative societies …
The Karnataka High Court ordered issue of notice to the government and the Mysore Paper Mills (MPM) on a public interest writ petition which sought ban on tree felling by the mills in the Western Ghats.
Damage from last year's Indonesian forest fires and haze over neighbouring countries until February amounted to $4.4 billion, two environmental groups said on Friday in the first scientific study done of the disaster's economic effects.
The other day a team of journalists accompanied by district collector, Mr Sanjhay Bandopadhyaya went to Patalkot in connection with village contact drive and detected many cases of cutting of teak trees involving crores of rupees. The forest Mafias of village Koudia, Gaildubba, Gudhichhatri of Patalkot have made large scale …
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry(Ficci) has written to industry minister Sikander Bakht urging a policy to allow participation of the corporate sector in reforesting of degrated forest land.This, says FICCI, is imperative in view of the survival and long-term viability of the domestic pulp and paper industry.
The debilitating heat wave sweeping across Orissa for the last one week has once again brought to focus the destruction of the forest cover in the state at an alarming rate during the last 10 years. While the state's forest area was 53,253 sq. km in 1987, it declined to …
Daler Mahndi, the king of Punjabi bhangra, has initiated a drive to make Delhi a greener and less polluted city, it was announced at a press conference here on Wednesday.The main part of the drive is the planting of 800,000 saplings.
The El Nino weather phenomenon is departing from the northern hemisphere with a powerful sting in its tail : Mexico is in flames. More than 11,000 fires are raging out of control throughout the country, destroying large tracts of virgin forests, threatening wildlife sanctuaries and engulfing towns in a dense …
Rampant cutting of trees on the National highways between Chengalpattu and Tindivanam poses a grave ecological danger, activists have said. The pace of tree cutting along the National Highway 45 between Chengalpattu and Tindivanam has quickened, after activists pointed out that a proper environment impact assessment appears to have not …
Strengthening the joint forest management and ensuring better financial benefits to those associated with the forest conservation programmes are the key areas getting attention in the new guidelines for plantation and sowing of seeds issued by the Chief Conservator of Forests of Rajasthan.
Scientists have shown for the first time that solar flares produce seismic waves in the Sun's interior that resemble those created by earthquakes. Dr. Alexander G. Kosovichev from Stanford University and Dr. Valentina V. Zharkova from Glasgow University found the tell-tale seismic signature in data on the Sun's surface.
The Assam State has been reeling under an unprecedented heat wave for the past few days. With the clouds virtually disappearing from the city's skyline this correspondent today met a cross section of people including Forest department officials who are literally gasping for a spell of rain.According to Forest department …
Planting a tree in Jamnagar, the south-western nearly barren district of Gujarat facing the Gulf of Kutch, is like fighting a battle with the elements of nature, but the upcoming Rs. 11,230-crore project Reliance Petrochemicals Ltd (RPL) is doing exactly that and in a big way. Of the two lakh …
