Reply affidavit on behalf of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of Gavhan Koliwada Matsyavyavsayik Sahakari Sanstha Maryadit Vs City & Industrial Development Corporation & Others dated 28/01/2025. City & Industrial Development Corporation submitted a proposal for CRZ clearance for the construction of coastal road from …
Barely a month after the ban on use of heavy equipment in local rivers took effect, excavators have returned in the wake of a decision of the District Development Committee of Nawalparasi lifting a ban on excavation at rivers. Earlier, a ban had been put in place on the use …
In a move that could have far reaching implications for eco-conservation, the state government has revised a rule that came into effect 36 years ago in the wake of the historic Silent Valley agitation and was crucial in formulating the Environment Protection Act later. Under the new Government Order (GO), …
The Digboi Forest Division led by Siraj Ahmed the Deputy Conservator of Forest together with the civil administration comprising the District and Sub Divisional launched a massive eviction drive here at the Namphai Reserve Forest under Digboi Division along the Assam–Arunachal border near Jagun last morning and evicted 163 temporary …
Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand on Thursday said that development must not be at the cost of nature and biodiversity; rather there should be a balance between all three. He stated this, while addressing a national seminar organised by State Forest Department on the occasion of International Biodiversity Day at the …
A two-percent increase in Ecological Fund allocation to states of the federation has been recommended by the Committee on Environment at the on-going National Conference in Abuja. According to the Committee, the increase became necessary in view of the expanding cost of battling ecological issues in several states partially brought …
Large open pits left behind after clay mining would cause serious threat to the ecological balance in the locality, says the Kerala high court. Deep mining of land to extract china clay (kaolin) has become common in many areas in Thiruvananthapuram and Kollam districts, where large reserves of china clay …
The forest department has recommended that Tosamaidan firing range which has sofar reportedly claimed over 75 people besides damaging thousands of green trees be handed over to Pehjan wild life department as an Eco-Sensitive Zone. According to an official letter bearing number 1254/SKNG dated March 3, 2014, the divisional forest …
WWF staff have been telephoned with death threats for opposing oil exploitation in Africa's oldest national park, which is home to one in four of the world's estimated 800 remaining mountain gorillas. It follows the attempted assassination of the Virunga national park's chief warden last month and the death of …
The mining department has alleged that LDA is carrying out illegal mining in a pond without the district magistrate's permission and has demanded a penalty of Rs 36,00,000 from the development authority. Officials said LDA did not take environmental clearance from UP Pollution Control Board before digging soil from the …
The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency has not yet approved the environmental impact assessment (EIA) study of a coal-fired power plant, ground-breaking of which was performed by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at Port Qasim recently. Sources said getting an EIA approval or NOC from Sepa before initiation of any project was …
Greece's plan to allow more construction and business activity along its vast Mediterranean coastline to boost its economy has sparked uproar in a country whose pristine beaches attract millions of tourists each year. Greece's long coastline remains less developed than that of some Southern Europe countries, such as Spain. The …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Ravinder Kumar Sharma & Ors. V/s State of Jammu & Kashmir & Ors. dated 13/05/2014 regarding indiscriminately digging the earth for the purpose of making bricks, without approval, resulting to an ecological imbalance in the State …
NAGPUR: The National Tiger Conservation Authority, a statutory body under the MoEF monitoring tiger reserves in the country, has directed all the reserves to incorporate supplementary guidelines to prepare tiger conservation plans (TCPs) and has set a deadline of June 15, to submit them. Like a working plan for territorial …
Government says only 359,762 of 756,000 signatures were legitimate, meaning petition fails to trigger national referendum Nearly two thirds of the signatures on a national petition to stop oil being exploited on a large scale in one of the most biodiverse parts of the Amazon rainforest have been rejected, leading …
More than three months after regulators were told that a coal ash containment pond in North Carolina had failed and was dumping toxic sludge into the nearby Dan River, environmental experts are taking a hard look at what's left in the water. What they have found may not bode well …
Orchardists say the move will ruin apple economy Residents, mainly apple and vegetable growers in the Chopal-Nerwa-Tharoach apple belt, are against the proposed move to set up a 1-million tonne capacity cement plant near Nerwa here. They plead that the plant will ruin the apple and vegetable economy and spell …
In a first for any state, the Haryana government has made public its losses on account of illegal sand mining. In a report submitted to the National Green Tribunal on Tuesday, the government has stated that illegal mining of over 60,000 metric tonnes sand on a land belonging to the …
In 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant led to the single worst nuclear accident in history. For nearly three decades, humans have been barred from living within 1,000 square miles surrounding the reactor, allowing plants and animals to reclaim their native home... but all may not be …
Studies about the movement of mammals have recently gained much emphasis thanks to the development of new tracking technology, allowing highly accurate recording of animal movement. However, the amount of data made available requires eff ective theoretical and analytical framework for appropriate scientifi c use, i.e. to answer questions of …
A photo exhibition on the Nilgiris, now under way in the Horticulture Complex here as part of the 2014 Annual Summer Festival, focuses on the flora and fauna of the hilly district. Organised by the Forest Department in association with the Department of Tourism and the District Administration, the exhibition …
