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 …
Cambodia plans to send back to Taiwan nearly 3,000 tonnes of suspected toxic waste imported from the island, environment minister Mok Mareth said on Friday. The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting on Friday morning with the full backing of Prime Minister Hun Sen, who is currently visiting Beijing …
The centrally-funded Integrated Wasteland Development Project has made a satisfying headway in Gurgaon part of Aravalli foothill. According to preliminary appraisal of the project implemented by the experts of Union Wasteland Development Ministry "the soil erosion in the 15 watersheds (identified for development in the first phase of the IWDP), …
Leading two-wheeler manufacturer Escorts Yamaha Motor Ltd (EYML) has geared itself so make all its motorcycle models Euro emission norms compliant before the April 2000 deadline by using catalytic converters or modifying engines.
Study : Despite claims to the contrary, a study conducted by the Nepal Government says country's forest area has come down to 29 per cent from 37.4 per cent in the eighties. The report however is yet to be adopted.
Claims by South Korean scientists that they used cloning methods to produce a human embryo met with scepticism on Wednesday from British experts, including the team that created Dolly, the cloned lamb.
South Korean medical researchers say they have conducted a breakthrough experiment in human cloning, before aborting it at early state for ethical and legal reasons. Researchers at the infertility clinic of Kyunghee University Hospital in Seoul said they cultivated a human embryo in its early stages using an unfertilised egg …
The World Bank has decided to pull out the Rs 293.25 crore Bihar social forestry project citing tardy progress in other World Bank aided projects in the state and poor financial condition of the government. The government has lodged a formal protest in this regard to the Centre.
The National Haze Technical Committee in Malaysia has proposed that all new land titles issued have a "no open burning clause." Science, Technology and Environment Minister Datuk Law Hieng Ding said the clause would clearly stipulate the landowner's liability for any open burning cases on his land.
For the past two years, Mike Dombeck, the chief of the United States Forest Service, has strug-gled to change the culture of a notoriously stubborn agency that has long favored the harvesting of timber in the national forests at the expense of wildlife protection and other environmental values. But old …
A police investigation report on illegal logging in Thailand's Salween national park has recommending prosecution of 16 suspects, including forestry officials and logging businessmen. The suspects are charged with colluding to illegally cut 13,215 teak logs worth 150 million baht in the park in Mae Hong Son and transport them …
Only one-third of the estimated 4.20 million hectare forest area or 4.8 percent of Pakistan's total geographical area is productive while the remaining two-third is maintained for environmental protection. According to official sources, the forest sector, owing to very small productive forest area in the country, contributed about 0.1 percent …
Meghalaya Speaker E K Mawlong and two Cabinet ministers of the B B Lyngdoh government were heckled by an irate crowd at an election rally in Nongstoin in West Khasi Hills district when they failed to answer queries on the timber ban. The crowd did not even spare the sitting …
Traffic India, a division of Worldwide Fund for Nature, is undertaking a comprehensive study to suggest ways and means for sustainable utilisation of medicinal plants of the country. The study entails identifying important plant species which demand serious action for their long-term availability.
India's forsts and wildlife need considerable protection during the coming polls as political parties and candidates might use them in various ways to raise funds and appeases voters, prominent wildlife experts and activists said.
Concern for the country's deforestation and resulting damage to the ecosystem is great in today's China. The government and the people consider it important to improve the forest ecosystem and to increase forest cover from the present 13.9 per cent to 19.4 per cent within the next 10 years, according …
Oil is the biggest export earner and the main source of state revenue for Ecuador. In a significant move, the government has decided to increase the private sector involvement in the oil sector. The move comes at a time when the oil sector is plagued by problems, including low international …
IT is tough, non-toxic and green. It is Biosteel. By borrowing a little from genetic as well as plain engineering, researchers in Quebec, Canada, have developed this incredibly light fabric that is both biodegradable and strong enough to stop bullets. If all goes as planned, biosteel - made by lacing …
Tucked away in a remote corner of the state stretches for miles - broken intermittently by lush green tea bushes and tall bamboo trees is not known to many.
Sapling on 11,000 hectares of land of the district Rangamati (Bangladesh) have been planted since 1995 under the government's afforestation and rehabilitation programme, spending Tk. 28 crore.
A committee appointed by the Environment Minister, Mr Suresh Prabhu, has recommended the setting up of gender and environment cells in state forest departments, besides taking other pro-women measures. The 16-member panel set up late last year was aked to review the status of women in the forestry sector and …
