Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
It is not just China’s economy that is growing phenomenally. An aggressive afforestation policy, put in place in 2000, has seen large tracts being covered by trees every year. But afforestation efforts are no match for China’s growing demand for wood
Comparing the practice of two certification schemes in Swedish forestry, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and a forest owner-dominated competitor, the author explores the capacity of forest certification to ameliorate environmental degradation in forestry while attending to different stakeholder interests.
Since the mid-1990s, Cameroon has launched a process of decentralization of the management of its forests. Among other innovations, this decentralization process has transferred powers over forests and financial benefits accruing from their exploitation to local communities. This article explores and profiles such local-level outcomes.
each new report on the state of India's forest cover published by the Forest Survey of India (fsi) provides new insights and triggers fresh criticism. The latest State of Forest Report (sfr) 2003, the ninth in a series, released on July 19, 2005, by Union ministry of environment and forests …
Since the Forest Conservation Act, 1980 (fca) came into force, the Centre has been in charge of sanctioning approvals of forestland diversion, the objective being to keep deforestation minimal. Yet, between 1980 and 2005, about 11 thousand projects have been cleared
An acrimonious exchange of words over the Scheduled Tribes (Recognition of Forest Rights) Bill, has appeared in the national press during the past couple of months. The first salvo was fired by environmentalists, mislead by a calculated misinformation campaign that the bill will distribute 2.5 hectares of forest land to …
function table() { var popurl="image/20050731/33-table.pdf" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=550,height=350,scrollbars=yes") } Currently, India's forestry sector is in quite a mess. But the fact that it is possible to quantify
It stems from a public interest litigation filed by T N Godavarman Thirumalpad in 1995. In December 1996, the court ordered there would be no timber-felling unless the forest department made a working plan for forested regions, demarcating areas that could be logged. Also, no trees at an altitude of …
• Recognition of unrecorded forest rights of scheduled tribes dwelling in forests for generations, including access, use and disposal of forest produce. • The bill recognises rights of communities that have occupied land before October 25, 1980 (when the Forest Conservation Act, 1980 was passed). • The right shall be …
The new policy initiatives of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests aim at improving the forest cover in such a way as to benefit all the stakeholders - the forest departments, local communities and investors. The world over sustainable forest management has become a buzz word, thanks to the …
Community forest groups in Nepal are protesting the takeover of their land in Tulasipur area of Dang district by the Royal Nepalese Army (RNA): it is occupying the Gadibarah, Ganesh, Khujuwarani, Dharapani, Jarayotakuri and Gairakhali Hariyali community forests to establish battalion presence. "The law has recognised community forest as an …
My initiation into environmental advocacy began in the mid-1980s. My colleague Anil Agarwal was involved in a fight against the Karnataka government's proposal to give forest land to Harihar Polyfibres - the Birla-owned pulp mill based in the state - to grow its raw material. The matter was in the …
Logjam: A federal appeals court has blocked logging of trees scorched in one of the US's largest wildfires. It is unlikely that the dead trees can be harvested before rotting. The court order came after a two-year old court battle. The 2002 blaze that burnt 202,343 hectares in southwestern Oregon …
a new timber tax has hit the coffee growers of Karnataka's Coorg district. Faced with a sharp drop in coffee prices since 1999, they depend on timber felling, mainly of the silver oak tree. It is now feared that the new tax would make them resort to increased felling, harming …
Forest histories have more often than not remained aloof from more broad-based economic histories of agrarian communities. As a result, narratives of the forest economy have focused almost entirely on the process offorest settlement. This article focuses on regional processes of territorialisation associated with revenue and forest settlement in the …
in the wake of strong protests by community forest user groups (cfugs) and conservationists, the Nepal government has reduced the controversial forest product fee
the us congress has reportedly approved a us $5-million waiver, thereby quantifying the debt-for-nature swap offer made to Sri Lanka more than two years ago. It is widely believed that this sum is peanuts, considering that Sri Lanka owes the us close to us $1 billion and that the latter …
the community forest user groups (cfugs) of Nepal will now be required to cough up a steep 40 per cent fee on their total income from sale of forest products. The Nepal government brought in the levy through an ordinance promulgated on July 18. It goes against the grain of …
