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 …
They are part of the city, the innumerable lakes that dot Vadodara and its surrounding areas. Just as Vadodara is the city of gardens, it can also be called the city of lakes with more than nine lakes with in the city itself, and many more in the villages around …
The Planing Commission is working on an emergency plan to tackle the environmental damage caused by the flowering of bamboo, expected to take place in 2003, 40 years after the last flowering season during 1961-65. "The flowering of bamboo s always accompanied by forest fires, rodent menace and famine causing …
Felling of green trees in Mahendragarh district is a common sight. The forest mafia is active in the area for the past one decade. The modus operandi of the mafia is to start felling green trees after sunset with the help of labourers or camel carts. These trees are cut …
The Tunga Upper Bank Project, work on which is in progress in Gajanur in Shimoga taluk, may be completed at lesser cost than the initial estimates. The revised estimate for the project is Rs 915 crore. If the work continues to progress at the present rate, the whole project may …
Water Resource Minister H K Patil today announced that Karnataka will come out with its Water Policy, which would be the first of its kind in the Country, within two months. The draft water policy has already been prepared and has been circulated among the experts to get their feedback, …
The forest cover in Andhra Pradesh is depleting at a rapid pace with the fund starved and ill equipped Forest Department unable to check poaching. During 2000-2001 alone, as many as 11,566 cases of poaching in flora and fauna were recorded from different parts in the state.
Decentralisation, community participation, support of non-governmental organisations and sustainable rural livelihoods are the key words in development discourse today. The forestry sector in India has not been left untouched. Decentralised community forest management or Joint Forest Management (JFM) is the current paradigm in forestry in India. In view of this, …
Invaluable sal trees from north-eastern part of this Terai district are being felled down and smuggled to the neighbouring Indian markets by timber smugglers in connivance with forest officials, a report here said in Nepal. Sources said timber smugglers have cut down more than 5,000 sal trees in neighbouring forests …
To counter growing air pollution in Delhi and save the fast vanishing green cover, the Delhi Government's Forest Department has prepared an ambitious plan to develop over a dozen "forest areas" across the city. These "green lungs" would act as cushions fro absorbing pollutants from the air. Buoyed by success …
Peru has announced the creation of a huge new national park, while the nation's smaller neighbour is under fire from environmentalists and indigenous people for allowing the construction of an oil pipeline traversing the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Shifting cultivation has been considered destructive to the ecology, but rarely have constructive solutions been suggested. Several scientists feel the pressure on these ecologically fragile areas will worsen with an increase in population. However, contrary to popular belief, population increase is not always the culprit for deforestation. A review of …
Create a scientific community that can interact with farmers and, on the basis of their study, draft a knowledge database, suggests Ramakrishnan. He feels government agencies should wake up to the unsuccessful trials and adopt better alternatives, "which can be conducted after an extensive study with good background data.' He …
jhum is slash-and-burn agriculture. It comes naturally to Khrieni Meru, 45, farmer from Khonoma village of Nagaland in India's Northeast. But it isn't half as violent a practice as it may sound from the term
The Himalayan newt, also called the Indian salamander, takes shelter among bamboo stumps in and around the hills of Darjeeling. It lives close to calm and still waters. During the monsoons, it feeds on algae, water beetles and bugs. After the showers, it leaps down on insect larvae, snails, slugs …
The Indonesian government has banned the domestic and international sale of ramin, a valuable tree species. "This has been done to protect the Tanjung Putting Park
India's forest cover has been showing a rapid decline. With community participation and social forestry being alien concepts the government sponsored conservation drives were unable to touch the chord of success. To ensure better co-operation, the joint forest management ( jfm ), programme was proposed by the ministry of environment …
Rajasthan has made a plea for declaring water as a national asset to ensure proper utilisation of various water resources and protect the interest of all States. The State Irrigation Minister, Ms. Kamla, speaking at the first meeting of the executive group on National Water Policy in the Capital, said …
In a shocking incident at Borivli on May 24, about 30 gun wielding policemen threw a cordon around a group of residents who were peacefully protesting the cutting down of trees in their society premises. The residents of Nand Dham Cooperative Society had been trying to prevent builders K.Patel and …
The Andhra Pradesh State government had bagged a Rs 600 crore World Bank aid for taking up "Community Forest Management" programme in over 80 lakh hectare of forest land. The decision which is considered to be "significant" for improving the "depleting" forest cover was communicated about three days back to …
The Mumbai Pollution Control Board has served a notice on the Brihan-mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to forthwith close five storm water drains which continue to pollute the Powai lake. The notice was issued after an inspection of the lake by M.P. Kirit Somaiya and president of Save Powai Lake campaign …
