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 …
Union Environment and Forest Minister Jairam Ramesh will visit Bhopal on July 9. Ramesh will meet Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on July 9. Later Ramesh will attend a discussion on Green India Mission organised at the Indian Forest Management Institute. Director General of Forests, Government of India and Special …
The Commonwealth Games Village which would be the official address of the athletes and delegates is ready to undergo beautification as the Organising Committee (OC) has planned to smarten up the village with thousands of trees and plants. A magnificent landscaping is also being planned for the village, said the …
At a time when depleting green area is a major cause for concern, the New Delhi Municipal Council has resolved for better maintenance and upgrade of its green area including gardens and parks. The civic agency presently maintains 1,100 acres of green cover in the Capital. To achieve the target, …
Ahmedabad: Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has green designs for the city this monsoon and will initiate a plantation drive from July 10. The parks and garden department of AMC will be planting 2.9 lakh trees in different parts of the city. Deputy municipal commissioner and incharge of parks & garden, …
Ahmedabad: The state forest department in co-ordination with the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) will take up a massive tree plantation drive as a part of the project
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: The Centre has embarked on yet another ambitious project to build a green memorial at Dandi to immortalise the salt march by Gandhi in 1930. With an aim to rejuvenating Gandhi principles, a Rs 25-crore green project will be launched at Dandi on Wednesday to …
Pune This time when the warkaris cross Hadapsar and proceed on their path to Pandharpur, they will be on a mission to make the earth greener. The Garden Department of Pune Municipal Corporation in collaboration with Harit Mitra Pariwar and Give to Save Movement (G2S) have been distributing seeds amongst …
Balurghat, July 4: Almost 9,000 trees, some of them over a century old, have been felled along a 110-kilometre state highway that is being expanded, but not a single sapling has been planted under the re-plantation mandatory for such a project. Despite the project clause that 10 saplings have to …
July 1: Scarcity of funds has hit the afforestation programmes in Anantapur district. The district has 1,989 sq km of forest land out of a geographical area of 19,134 sq km. Forests are being destroyed here for firewood, erratic rainfall and heavy soil erosion. The district, which re-ceives the poorest …
Lucknow: The forest department has come up with plantation targets for the year 2010-11. The department will plant saplings covering over an area of 55,000 hectares in the coming year. The plantation exercise will begin this month with the advent of monsoon. The total plantation target of planting saplings over …
The vision of a country includes pursuing a development process that is environmentally sustainable. The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has sought to achieve this aim of conserving and protecting the environment by implemening various policies and programmes. This report aims to generate greater awareness and environmental consciousness amongst …
In India, seabuckthorn is widely distributed at high altitude, cold arid Trans Himalayan regions of Ladakh, Lahul-Spiti, parts of Chamba and upper Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh. It plays an important role in soil erosion control, slope stabilization, reclamation of degraded and wastelands.
Convergence between any two schemes is a mutually beneficial proposition. That is why joint guidelines were issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forests and Ministry of Rural Development on January 9, 2009, to usher in convergence efficiently and effectively. The convergence between NAP and rural development programmes such as …
Afforestation and regeneration of degraded forests have been the prime objectives of all forestry activities undertaken by the Forest Department since inception. Poverty reduction and sustainable livelihoods are the two most important issues in JFM.
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Gandhinagar: The green cover in Gujarat may double. The dream, however, is linked to the Rs 44,000-crore National Green Mission, which is in the last phase of finalisation. The social forestry department officials said the green mission, unveiled by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, was aimed at …
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Gandhinagar: The green cover in Gujarat may double. The dream, however, is linked to the Rs 44,000-crore National Green Mission, which is in the last phase of finalisation. The social forestry department officials said the green mission, unveiled by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, was aimed at …
ON MAY 25, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) released the draft Green India Mission. It aims to reduce carbon emissions by doubling the area taken up for afforestation in the next one decade as a part of the Centre’s climate change action plan. The ministry said the …
KOCHI: As a part of increasing the green cover and making afforestation programme more effective and meaningful, the Kochi Corporation has decided to start a tree census to get the feedback on the success rate of tree plantation in the city on June 30. The civic body has already reached …
