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 …
Two doctors aboard space shuttle Columbia cut into the legs of six anaesthesised baby rats as part of a study of how nerves develop in weight-lessness.It was the first surgery ever performed in space on creatures meant to survive. Previously, astronauts merely dissected dead animals. The death count rose yesterday …
The seeds of the forest tree strychnos potatorum used by the tribals of Andhra Pradesh for purifying water may hold the key to remove arsenic in the ground water of West Bengal and Bangladesh, scientists claim. A substance isolated from the seeds has proved to be efficient in removing arsenic, …
Brazil promised to set aside 62 million acres of Amazon rain forest for conservation , underscoring the Government's renewed commitment to the faltering preservation of the imperiled tropical wilderness. The pledge to be carried out with financial and technical assistance from the World Bank and a conservation group, WWF International …
The Indian Forest Service Association (IFSA) has demanded a hike in the Rs 8,000 crore allocation proposed in the draft Ninth Plan as it considers the amount inadequate to tackle the challenges of a fast shrinking green cover. A working group set up by the ministry had suggested a Ninth …
eighteen environmentalists have been arrested in Vancouver, Canada, for opposing the logging of some of the remaining pristine rainforest valleys in the Great Bear Rainforests. The uk is playing a major role in forest destruction as it continues to import timber and pulp from British Columbia's ancient temperate rainforests to …
nations of the North and the South met at the first-ever assembly of the Global Environment Facility ( gef ) in New Delhi from April 1 to 3 with an ambitious agenda
American Forests and Mobil Corp. are bringing badly needed 'relief' to forests in Virginia, Wisconsin and Florida. The partnership planted 55,000 native trees this month in Virginia and 230,000 trees in Wisconsin. The Florida projects were completed in January. The trees will help slow global climate change by removing carbon …
Veerappan : Putting all speculation to rest, forest brigand Veerappan has ruled out the possibility of surrendering to the authorities. In an audio cassette addressed to R R Gopal, editor of Tamil magazine Nakkheeran, Veerappan said: "I will never surrender. I will hunt with the same vigour for another 25 …
Mr. Klaus Topffer, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), welcomes the reports of recent rains in Indonesia's forest-fire ravaged east Kalimantan province. However, United Nations sources confirm that the amount of rain has been insufficient to reduce the fires significantly and has fallen very unevenly throughout the …
Scientists at Duke University have explored a new avenue of fossil anatomy and found surprising evidence suggesting that vocal capabilities like those of modern humans may have evolved among species of the Homo line more than 400,000 years ago. By then, their research shows, human ancestors may have had a …
A forest protection committee has been constituted under the convenorship of Indira Tamang at an all party meeting in Dharan Muncipality to protect 100 hectares of forest area in the Charkose Jhadi or dense Terai forest outside the periphery of the BP Koraila Institute of Health Sciences.
Lakhs of diseased sal trees, felled after many bureaucratic and legal hurdles, are lying in Madhya Pradesh forests, threatening another epidemic. The Government has been unable to provide enough labourers or requisition enough number of trucks to take the logs out of the forests.The Forest Department officials are worried because …
Rains have doused many wildfires on the Indonesian side of Borneo Island but blazes are still raging in at least four forest regions, a govenment official said on Saturday.
Violating a Supreme Court directive,the DDA recently leased two restaurants and five furnished picnic huts in the beautiful "Picnic Huts Complex" in Mehrauli for six years to a private party.
North Eastern Handicrafts Association (NEHA) has expressed its serious concern at the fast depletion of cane and bamboo forests in the North-east region, adversely affecting the trade of traditional cane and bamboo craft artisans, and in identical menorandum to the Chief Ministers of seven States demanded protective measures.
Study : A new study on destruction of the world's forests has found that between 1980 and 1995 alone, at least two million square kilometres of forests, constituting an area larger than Mexico, were destroyed. It has blamed the dramatically increasing demand for paper and other wood products, coupled with …
Most of the raging forest fires devastating Indonesia's Borneo province of East Kalimantan are out, partly because of rain, partly because there is nothing left to burn, an Environment Ministry official said. "A large part of the fires, about 70 percent, have been extinguished, not just by the rains but …
A weird-looking beetle has completely changed the lifestyles of thousands of central Indian tribals after it destroyed entire forests of the sal trees on which their livelihoods had depended. To prevent the spread of the Hoplocerambyx spinicornis beetle, authorities cleared the sal forests, which, though disastrous for the environment in …
The tropical forests' brilliant greens have given way to soft reds and pale yellows, making Bukit Suharto National Park look like autumn in New England. But this is not fall foliage on the quator. The Bukit Suharto forest is dying, along with hundreds of thousands of hectares of adjoining jungle.This …
