Order of the Bombay High Court in the matter of Adani Cementation Limited Vs Union of India & Others dated 05/03/2025. Adani Cementation Limited approached the Bombay High Court seeking issuance of an order directing the respondents/ authorities to permit the petitioner to carry out the work of construction of …
World Tiger Day would be observed today in the country as elsewhere in the world underlining the need for protecting the endangered tiger species against total extinction. Some 41 tigers were killed and 11 died normally in last 17 years in the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, said forest …
The movement against the proposed India-Bangladesh joint venture coal-based power plant at Rampal near the Sundarbans is getting stronger day by day drawing wide public support. Former MP of Bagerhat-3 constituency Talukdar Abdul Khalek, also immediate past Mayor of Khulna City Corporation, played a vigorous role in implementing the much-hyped …
After spoiling all the alternatives to ensure incessant power supply to the people, the government is now on course to destroy Sundarbans by setting up power plant at Rampal, observed leaders of the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Port on Sunday, reports UNB. At a …
NIO study also concluded that water quality fulfilled criteria of CPCB for eco-sensitive zones The impact of industrial activity on aquatic fauna found at bottom of the Arabian sea (macrobenthic communities) in the sensitive ecosystem of the Marine National Park and Sanctuary (MNPS) in southern Gulf of Kutch was found …
The Bombay high court on Thursday directed the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA) to determine within a month whether a proposed hoarding site in an area of mangroves on the Mahim Causeway falls within the Coastal Regulatory Zone-I. The court has also said until the MCZMA’s report comes in, …
The Bombay high court has directed the ministry of environment and forests to decide the fate of around 8.80 lakh fully grown mangroves spread over 220 hectares at Dronagiri in Navi Mumbai. Hearing an application filed by Cidco, seeking to cut down the mangroves for desilting and redevelopment work, a …
Mumbai: The state revenue and forest department on Thursday said it would elevate mangroves on government land in and around Mumbai from ‘protected forests’ to ‘reserved forests’ under section 4 of the Indian Forest Act. Officials said mangroves would now be more stringently protected. “While the rights of people on …
Ahmedabad: Despite opposition from senior forest officials, the state revenue department has de-reserved a patch of a mangrove forest and is ready to hand over the land to salt makers. The department has ignored the Indian Forest Act and has de-reserved the patch to give the land to two salt …
The systematic destruction of mangroves in Mumbai and the state at large is a scourge familiar to the residents here. But for the Union ministry of environment and forests, Maharashtra’s mangrove cover has remained unchanged the last eight years. In its 2012-13 report, the ministry states that the mangrove cover …
Committee asks company to submit compliance report The experts appraisal committee (EAC) of the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has deferred Tata Power's application for green note for converting a 500 -Mw oil-fired unit at its Trombay plant here to a coal-fired one. The EAC, which met on May …
Central Empowered Committee inspected the alleged environmental damages at Krishnapatnam Port and its surroundings on Tuesday. The committee was deputed by the Supreme Court following some petitions filed by S. Venkateswarlu, a native of Chalivendrum near the port and an advocate K.R. Reddy over damage to the environment because of …
MUMBAI: Around 50 acres of mangroves were allegedly destroyed in Lokhandwala by planting "invasive species" and creating a debris path, which residents claimed was a new modus operandi to kill the green belt. The residents were shocked to see the mangroves destroyed and charred bushes on both sides of the …
An increase of seven sq km in Goa's green cover reported by Forest survey of India (FSI) has not enthused environmentalists much, as it comprises mangrove area and the status of dense and other forest types remains ambiguous. The moderate dense forest (MDF) cover in the state has showed an …
Coastal zones represent diverse ecosystems and support highly productive habitats such as mangroves, mudflats and other marine species. India has a coast line of 7,500 km which is intersected by rocky outcrops and shores with stretches of sandy beaches. It supports over 25% of anthropogenic and socio-economic factors the coastal …
The Bombay high court blasted the BMC on Thursday while hearing petitions against illegal waste dumping and wetland reclamation in Kanjurmarg. “Please understand. You are not behaving as the municipal corporation for the maintenance of Mumbai, but as the municipal corporation for the destruction of Mumbai. You are incorrigible,” said …
The Bombay high court on Thursday came down heavily on the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for allegedly violating several norms pertaining to Costal Regulation Zone (CRZ) and disturbing wetlands and mangroves at its Kanjurmarg dumping ground site. The Bombay high court on Thursday came down heavily on the Brihanmumbai Municipal …
Preliminary study by varsity department points to dip in oxygen level in the Karamana The mass mortality of fish reported from the stretch of the Karamana, near the Thiruvallam and Pallathukadavu ghats last week, could have been caused by the unusual rise in water temperature, reduction in flow and a …
The National Wetland Atlas 2011 has used confusing and inappropriate classifications. Many man-made wetlands have been treated as naturally occurring, tanks have become lakes, and a large number of ponds have become nondescript entities. The number of inland wetlands estimated is far less when compared to other known sources of …
A five-day pilot survey of Bengal Tigers, which is the first phase of the Bengal Tiger Census and Monitoring project, will begin in the Sundarbans today. More than a thousand field workers will use camera traps to count the total tiger population in the Bangladesh part of the world’s largest …
Carbon dioxide levels are about to rise to the highest they have been in five million years, triggering warnings a move towards low carbon economies is not happening quick enough. The atmospheric concentration of CO2 is expected to rise to 400 parts per million in the next few days, according …
