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 …
Greenpeace International has accused India of manufacturing and exporting potentially harmful and toxic pesticides to developed countries who have already banned these chemicals.According to Greenpeace International, the non-governmental international environmental organisation, India has exported nearly 0.5 million kilograms of highly poisonous pesticides such as DDT, BHC, Aldrin and Lindane to …
The Committee of Natural Resources and Environment Conservation has condemned the government for scrapping the cabinet resolutions of the Chavalit Yongchaiyudh administration. The committee, run by 16 tertiary institutions, said decision denied local people access to manage forest resources. It said the government had been unreasonable in revoking the resolutions …
The World Wildlife Fund yesterday announced that more than 25 million acres of the world's forests have been independently certified as meeting enviornmental standards for being "well-managed," indicating that the WWF's minimum goal of forest certification is ahead of schedule.Under the program, certified independent forest examiners assess a timber company's …
"The fires raging in north Florida are so big, so hot, so fast that they have had a devastating ecological impact," one that could take decades to reverse, according to forestry experts. Hot fires in the range of 5,000 to 6,000 degrees Fahrenheitburn everything, even soil, and they leave the …
The procedural bottlenecks coming in the way of speedy environmental clearances to industrial projects on account of the restrictive provisions of the Forest conservation Act of 1980 are proposed to be simplified.The modalities are being worked out by the Ministry of environment and forests in consultation with the state governments. …
A total of 140 community forests have been handed over to the community users around the Nepal Swiss Community Forest Project which is being implemented in Ramechhap district over the last six years.
thanks to hairdresser Phillip McCrory from Alabama, usa, we now have a potential weapon against oil spills - those hair-raising environmental nightmares. Inspired by the media coverage of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, McCrory asked himself a very interesting question: if oil can coat animal fur readily, why not …
in late 1996, the us government imposed trade restrictions on import of shrimp and shrimp products on India, Pakistan, Thailand and Malaysia. This was done as a part of measures undertaken by the country to protect and conserve sea turtles, an endangered natural resource. This was based on the contention …
Export of timber from Bihar will be severely hit this year as most of the seasum tree plantaitons have perished. Farmers and the state forest department were of the view that most of the plantations have dried up following the emergence of a new type of virus which attacks only …
The Indonesian paper giant Sinar Mas is planning to set up 100 per cent-owned trading subsidiary in India to take advantage of four per cent duty exemption of trading companies. The domestic paper industry, which was already upset with Indonesia giant setting up manufacturing facilities last year, has got the …
Even as Madhya Pradesh risks losing lakhs of sal trees due to extensive damage caused by a beetle, sal borer, the state government has sought the intervention of the Union ministry for environment and forests on disposal of timber from these trees.
Imposition of additional special duty in this years' budget on import of waste paper as pulp by small and mediym scale paper mills has jeopardised the industry's future , a small papers association has alleged.
All the reasons for preservation of world's tropical rainforests also apply to Russia's endless conifers. So do most of the reasons for destroying them. Many of those conifers, however, might yet be saved : a report.
Police fired five rounds in the air to disperse a huge group of farmers of the Mandya Zilla Hitarakshana Samithi who reportedly indulged in arson and stone-throwing in the Krishna Raja Sagar dam region here today in protest against the construction work of the second stage of the Varuna canal …
Farmers of six districts, including Tumkur, launched an indefinite relay hunger-strike in front of the Deputy commissioner's office here on Thursday demanding that the government should announce that it would implement Kumaradhara and Upper Bhadra irrigation projects.
Deep red gashes scar the mountain sides around Palmital, a small town in Costa Rica's Pacific cordillera. Each year, rains wash top soil from what were forests a decade or two ago. Thanks to the practices of poor peasant farmers and not-so-poor farmers 70% of the country's forests have vanished.
Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) will launch a 'Green Delhi Campaign' from July 2. The campaign which has been scheduled to coincide with the expected first spell of monsoon in the Capital, will be inaugurated by Parliamentary Affairs and Tourism Minister Madan Lal Khurana at Nirman Vihar in East Delhi.During …
The Union Minister for Environment and Forests, Mr. Suresh Prabhu, today expressed his Government's firm resolve to check the reduction in forest cover of the coutnry. The latest report of the Forest Survey of India estimates that "the real and meaningful forest cover in the area extends to only 11 …
Deforestation is the "predominant cause" for desertification and droughts in the country, observed Dr. I. Sundar, from Annamalai University, in a paper presented at a State-level seminar organised by the Tamil Nadu Environment Council in Salem recently.According to Dr. Sundar, deforestation is a "continuous process" as the country is losing …
The North-eastern States have lost over 300 sq. km. forest cover since 1995 even as a Supreme Court order banning felling of trees is in vogue in the region. A State Forest report (SFR) compiled by the Forest Survey of India once in every two years says the country lost …
