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 …
In a remarkable attempt under the auspices of the department of Forests, BTC under Haltugaon Forest Division in Kokrajhar as many as 100 jawans of 15 Dogra Regiment of Indian Army & 315 Eco-Task Force Battalion successfully planted 40885 saplings within an hour at Khalashi area under Jharbari Range in …
Three years after over a lakh trees were axed and nearly two lakh plants uprooted for widening of the National Highway-I, Punjab is finding it hard to meet its afforestation target due to paucity of forestland. So much so that the state Forest Department was now planting saplings on common …
Massive rally planned in protest against the civic body's resolution seeking legal action against those who oppose cutting trees A meeting of nature conservation groups and green enthusiasts on Sunday resolved to write to Chief Minister Jayalalithaa expressing their anguish over a resolution passed by the civic body seeking legal …
Chanda Rana, an environmental activist, founder of 'Save the Environment Foundation', has launched a pilot project at a community forest in Mukundapur VDC, Nawalparasi, to study the possibility of manual method adoption to control infestation of Mikania [Mile a Minute]. As part of the pilot project, which was launched marking …
99,850 Hectares Of Green Cover Eroded Between ’07 & ’09: IISc Study. Going by the latest report on deforestation in India, we have lost forest area equivalent to more than half of New Delhi or as big as a tier two city between 2007 and 2009 alone. The study conducted …
Coming down hard on the state government on the Lavasa hill town project, the CAG report has said the government bent rules and made amendments to existing laws only to allow the controversial township to be built at the cost of public interest. The report was tabled in the Assembly …
Ludhiana Even as lakhs of trees are being chopped for various development works, a recent report of Forest Survey of India (FSI) has presented a pleasant surprise for Punjab. As per the report, the agrarian state has registered an increase of 100 square kilometres of in 2010-11. The figure is …
Jaipur: With a view to increase the forest cover in the state, it has been proposed to confer the status of conservation reserves on eleven forests in the state. With that the total number of conservation reserves will go up to 24. According to VS Singh, additional chief secretary, environment …
IMPHAL: The Manipur government has miserably failed in containing the widespread practice of starting wildfire for hunting and clearing the mountain slopes for cultivation. The tribals have found that the ashes from the burnt trees and other vegetations are natural manure. The raging wildfire also drives away the terrified wild …
Hazaribagh, April 8: Being eco-friendly is today’s mantra for a safe planet. Following the trend, Central Coal Fields Limited (CCL) has decided to put its best foot forward by starting a campaign to plant 50,000 saplings of fruit-bearing trees at the abandoned Sangam coal mine at Bhurkunda in neighbouring Ramgarh …
The government does. It says area under forests has been increasing for the last 13 years. M Rajshekhar finds this is the outcome of statistical jugglery and the use of flawed definitions by India’s forest bureaucracy. The bald truth is India’s forests are in serious decline, both in numbers and …
In a move to take steps towards conservation of environment, Uttarakhand Jal Vidyut Nigam Ltd has decided to chop only those forests which are required to construct reservoirs or power stations. Officials have also decided to undertake compensatory afforestation in the region. After realising its responsibility to the environment and …
Environment and Forests Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud yesterday said the number of reserve forests in the country had increased from eight to 34 in the last three years. Social afforestation played a vital role in conservation of biodiversity in our country and more than one lakh hectare landscape would be …
A tree plantation campaign was launched in Lumbini yesterday amid a programme attended by persons from various walks of life. The World Wild Life Fund-backed drive is a part of the organisation’s ‘Save Earth’ project. More than 1.50 lakh plants are to be planted in Lumbini under the program-me. Yesterday’s …
A group of influential people have continued to fell trees of afforestation project, known as 'Sabuj Bestoni Prakalpa' of forest department in different areas of Patuakhali and Barguna districts. In Patuakhali, a group led allegedly by Shahjahan, Alamgir Matobbar, and Mujibul Haque Howlader felled at least 100 trees on a …
Goa Governor K. Sankaranarayanan on Tuesday said his government would crack down on the illegal mining as also the mafias involved in such illegal operations in the State, and expressed his government's wish to reduce dependency of the Goan economy on mining. Delivering the Governor's customary address before the newly-elected …
Agartala: While Forest Survey of India (FSI) Report 2009 showed a steady increase of forest cover in the North-East states, the latest report of FSI revealed that the region has lost about 549 sqkm green cover over the years. FSI Report 2011 stated that Tripura alone had degraded about 96 …
The Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation has decided to tighten up on granting licence for hydropower projects in conservation and protected areas, citing threat to biodiversity. The decision came in response to the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation’s request to the ministry a few weeks ago that …
The afforestation of abandoned farmland significantly influences soil organic carbon (OC). However, the dynamics between OC inputs after afforestation and the original OC are not well understood. To learn more about soil OC dynamics after afforestation of farmland, we measured the soil OC content in paired forest and farmland plots …
Jammu: The government has big plans to expand the green cover in the state. The Economic Survey Report, 2011-12, by the Directorate of Economics and Statistics has revealed that the forest department planned to conserve the existing forest resources and bring more areas under tree plantation to expand the forest …
