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 …
Making agri-businuss sense : The Reliance Group is strategically locating land in Madhya Pradesh and Goa to develop wastelands for agro-business. It is believed to be buying huge chunks of wastelands and forestland.
It is now the turn of tree plantation companies after non banking finance companies (NBFCs) to feel the hear in anticipation of stringent SEBI guidelines designed to purge malpractices in the sector. A shakeout is now expected in tree plantation investment companies which have bloated to become a Rs 10,000 …
As many as 48 agro-based paper manufacturing units in western Uttar Pradesh and more than 100 paper mills in Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, producing approximately 3,000 tonnes of kraft paper per day, have decided to stop production for once month from February 16 . The industry has decided …
The valuable forest resources in the Assam-Nagaland border and the Numbor reserved forest under Golaghat district have been destroyed by the encroachers and the anti-social elements. The forest officials raided and evicted the encroachers in the Numbor forest area several times. But they could go scot-free due to political interference, …
The Ministry of Water Resources has set up a Non-Government Organisation grouop for creating public opinion amongst people to convince basin States for agreeing to the linking of peninsular rivers and the transfer of water from surplus to deficit areas.
Study: Vehicular pollution is expected to go up to 85 per cent in 2010. This was pointed out by a survey on vehicular pollution conducted by a non-governmental organisation, Vatavaran. Vatavaran's director Iqbal Malik said the pollution level will rise from 72 per cent in the year 2000 to 85 …
Special squads to detect bush fires may be set up at all local authorities in a bid to check their spread. Malaysian Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Dr. Ting Chew Peh said another way was to install hotlines to facilitate reports of such fires by the public.
With the Delhi Government repeatedly taking back its ban on old vehicles, pollution control has taken a backseat. The Government has an enviable record of retracting its own words, policies and proposals at the slightest protest. Respiratory problems, cough and asthma have become an inseparable part of the Delhities' life …
A sternuous ecological project : Each year, China creates 5.3 million hectares of forests, afforests another 3.7 million hectares of mountains where hunting and grazing are prohibited, and plants 2.4 billion trees by advancing the compulsory tree planting campaign. These efforts have stabalized the coverage of the nation's manually planted …
The multinationals' policy to trying to patent life forms which belong to Third World Biodivesity came in for severe criticism at the International Conference on Medicinal Plants. India's Dr Vandana Shiva said it was indicative of an axquisitive culture which sought to monopolise something engrained in traditional systems of medicine …
As part of the Golden jubilee celebration of Independence, the Forest Department plans to launch a massive tree planting campaign in the city. As many as two lakh saplings are to be planted in Chennai, under the "City Beautificatin Project", at a cost of Rs. 2.77 crores.The campaign will be …
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has started the inquiry into the tendu leaf case in Madhya Pradesh. Accepting the request of the State Government, the Union Ministry of Home has entrusted the case to the CBI to ascertain the possibility of Rs 212 crore loss to the State following …
The paper industry has offered to reforest two million hectare of degraded forest lands. Indian paper manufacturers, as producers of wood-based products and good corporate citizens, are committed to regenerating India's degraded forest lands for the benefit of environment and industry, Indian Paper Makers Association (IPMA) chairman H P Singhania …
An unlikely environmentalist, the Indian Paper Makers Association (Ipma), has offered to reforest 2 million hectares of degraded forestlands. Responding to the latest official figures which show India's forest cover reduced by 5,500 sq km during 1997, Ipma has offered to work jointly with the Government in a nation-wide effort …
the tribals have gone to war. The quest: regeneration of the environment. The location Jhabua, an upland in western Madhya Pradesh (mp) with an area of 6,782 sq km and a forest cover of 624 sq km. Almost 80 per cent of this forest is severely degraded or has suffered …
an earthquake which recently rocked the Hebei province in northern China has left nearly 11,440 people injured and 44,000 homeless. Economic losses from the quake have been estimated at us $228 million. Thousands of victims are now facing the bitter cold. The temperature in the quake-affected areas has plunged to
scientists in Australia have recently developed a revolutionary new system that could reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 10 per cent. The system, the developers claim, converts tree and wood residues into electricity. Wood, the source of renewable energy for this system, is derived from residues …
Dutch primatologist Marc Van Roosmalen of the national Amazon research institute has discovered four previously unknown types of monkey while combing the Amazon forests. One of the new monkeys belongs to the callthrix genus and has been baptised "manicore marmoset' by the Dutch primatologist. The squirrel-sized manicore has a greyish …
