Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
The 42 wagons loaded with timber seized in Guwahati this month is part of a 118 wagon loads of timber consignment from Dimapur railway station heading to New Delhi, sources said. If the price of timber of the 42 wagons seized by Customs authorities on July 10 in Guwahati is …
Today the majority of wild great ape populations are found outside of the network of protected areas in both Africa and Asia, therefore determining if these populations are able to survive in forests that are exploited for timber or other extractive uses and how this is managed, is paramount for …
After more than two years of negotiations, the European Council and European Parliament have signed a provisional agreement that, if approved, would ban illegal timber from entering the EU.
The residents of Nanadigaave, Dandubitta Hara, Mascal maradi, Sampige Hatti, Ropeline, Varthegundi and other nearby villages said that the roads in Tarikere and Narasimharajapura taluks are in deplorable condition owing to the movement of timber lorries. The villagers submitted a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner, demanding the ban on the …
Environmental orgnisations like Wild Cat -C, Nature Conservation Guild and Bhadra Wildlife Conservation Trust has urged the district administration to ban the use of elephants for timber work in coffee estates in Chikmagalur district. In a press release issed by Sridev Hulikere and D V Girish said
An unlikely coalition of logging companies and environmental groups has reached an agreement to protect more than 300,000 square kilometres of Canadian boreal forest
SHIMLA: Hundreds of villagers under the banner of Himachal Kisan Sabha on Tuesday staged a 24 hour dharna outside the office of Principal Chief Conservator of Forest demanding timber distribution rights. State Kisan Sabha president Kuldip Tanwar has alleged that top forest officials are insensitive and not empathetic towards the …
Consumer demand for the premier neotropical luxury timber, big-leaf mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla), has driven boom-and-bust logging cycles for centuries, depleting local and regional supplies from Mexico to Bolivia. We revise the standard historic range map for mahogany in South America and estimate the extent to which commercial stocks have been …
These rules shall be called the Himachal Pradesh Forest (Timber Distribution to the Right Holders) Rules, 2010. In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires:
Illegal logging is having a devastating impact on some of the world's most valuable remaining forests. It has been well established that global paper consumption has increased by twenty times in the last century, and has more than tripled over the past 30 years. Spurred on by growing consumer demand, …
Projects in Madagascar could provide a model for stemming deforestation. But first these efforts must deal with the poverty and political upheaval that threaten forests, reports Anjali Nayar.
Swati Garg / Kolkata October 20, 2009, 0:59 IST The global economic downturn has had a greater impact on the unorganised segment of the timber industry in Kolkata than is at first visible. The crisis has served to further highlight the differences in the way the organised and unorganised segments …
Staples Inc and Home Depot Inc are collaborating with environmental groups in a pilot program aimed at conserving fast-disappearing Southern U.S. forests, organizers said on Thursday. Staples, the office products company, and Home Depot, the home products retailer and one of the leading sellers of wood, will provide funding to …
In those South American countries where forest plantations are important or have potential for development, investment in them is one option for creating jobs.
Asia Pulp and Paper, one of the largest paper producers in Asia, said on Thursday it has no immediate plans to expand its two Indonesian pulp mills and would only do so if it secured sustainably produced timber. The Indonesia-based company, known by its initials APP, is a target for …
LOOTING of the reserve forests in the Chittagong Hill Tracts has reached alarming proportions. The way the illegal loggers in collusion with some dishonest forest officials are depleting the forest resources of Rangamati has again become glaringly evident from a recent report in this paper. But one would again notice …
101 Hectares Identified Near Bhachau Harit Mehta TNN Ahmedabad: The arid region of Kutch may not have much to do with trees. But, the border district may soon have a Wood Special Economic Zone, the first of its kind in the country. After a lukewarm response to the proposed handicrafts …
This article investigates weaknesses of consumer boycotts. First, usual shortcomings of collective action, such as coordination failure and free riding, reduce considerably the success likelihood. Second, consumers with the highest ability to hurt the targeted firm
THE term "sustainable development" seems to have reached a stage of sustainability after having been used for long. Sustainability is a word most suited, perhaps, for describing an ecosystem constituted of biota like plants, animals and microbes living in any area of the earth. But unfortunately, we -- the most …