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 Karnataka High Court on Tuesday appointed two forest experts as court commissioner to inspect cutting bamboo shoots in the forests of Savanadurga Range in Bangalore rural district and directed them to submit the report within two weeks.
Rapid Industrialisation, poor management, careless harvesting and encroachment of forest areas are posing a serious threat to bamboo of the region, observed Dr P C Bora professor of the department of agronomy, Assam Agricultural University.
The fast dwindling forest cover in Bihar threatens to accelerate climatic changes in the state due to the indicriminate felling of trees. According to national norms (ideal forest cover should exceed 33 per cent of the land area), the area under forest cover in the state should have been 57,900 …
consider this. A small sleepy town on the top of a hill in the north of Nagaland. The mention of the town's name is met by blank looks for it is isolated not only geographically, but also from civilisation. None of the modern means of communication exists and, to top …
europe's forests are deteriorating at an alarming rate despite measures to reduce air pollution, says a new report. About 35 per cent of trees assessed throughout Europe can be classified as "healthy,' about 40 per cent are in the "warning stage,' while about a quarter of trees are rated "damaged,' …
The mythological river Saraswati that was lost about 6000 years ago due to adverse climatic conditions may reappear in future, according to a new report. A favourable climatic conditions can switch on the rebirth process of Saraswati in future, says the report in the latest issue of the journal 'Current …
The High-power standing committee on forest management has laid down strict regulatory norms for a joint forest management (JFM) committee to extend its activity into 'good forest' areas. Such forests posess a good foliage cover.
At the fag end of its first phase, the Madhya Pradesh Forestry Project (MPEF) - the country's largest foreign funded forestry project - is facing voices of dissent, ironically from those very people whom it should have benefited during the past years.
The National Democratic allinace (NDA) government at the Centre is reportedly finalising a five-year plan for the development of 5,000 hectares of bamboo forests in Mozoram as part of a national programme to develop bamboo as an alternative source to wood to save the country's dwindling forest cover.
Residents of Southern Avenue (Calcutta) will take to the streets and prevent the government from cutting rare trees and ruining the ecological balance.
A large-scale joint forest management (JFM) programme has been undertaken by the Uttar Pradesh forest department with assitance from the World Bank in the Kempty village region of Mussoorie's forest area. The project was aimed at saving the forests as well as bringing about sustainable development in the village, according …
Many of the mangrove formations in Kerala are on the verge of extinction, mostly due to indiscriminate destruction arising out of severe human pressures on the coastal front. A project has been drawn up to rehabilitate the existing mangrove formations along the Vembanad coast to devise policies for the management …
The Kerala Government's decision to set up a network of small hydel projects without any harm to the environment will take off with the inauguration of the work on the Malankara small hydel project by the Electricity Minister, Mr. S.S. Sarma, on November 10.
The forest areas of Vadodara and Panchmahals are increasingly coming under the threat of encroachment. At least three cases of alleged encroachment by settlers around the periphery of forest areas in Gogamba in the Panchmahals have been reported in the last fortnight.
Environmentalists have gone into combat mode over the government's move to widen Southern Avenue - one of Calcutta's few real boulevards - by narrowing the tree line that divides the road and covers it with a green canopy. Transport minister Subhash Chakraborty said that large portions would be peeled away …
Debris from a dwarf galaxy that was destroyed in a collision with the Milky Way about 10 million years ago, is providing scientists with new evidence about the formation of the Earth's home galaxy. A team of international astronomers used data from the European Space Agency's Hipparcos satellite to locate …
Even as global concern is being expressed over environment and the depleting ozone layer, green cover in Shimla is on decline. The latest to fall prey is a virgin patch of forest in its pristine glory in the Darlaghat area.
The installed power generation capacity of the Sardar Sarovar Narmada project would be 1,450 mw, Gujarat minister for Narmada and major irrigation projects Jainarayan Vyas said at Mumbai yesterday.
A U.S. proposal to slash tariffs worldwide on paper, wooden furniture and other forest products would have little impact on the global timber harvest or the environment, a White House study said. But the analysis, released by the office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the White House Council on …
About 20,000 green trees in the Darlaghat area of Solan district will be axed as forest land has been leased for limestone mining to a leading cement factory by the Himachal Pradesh Government.
