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 …
The Centre is coming out with a new mechanism to encourage states to maintain and enhance forest covers. The policy which is in the design stage, aims at giving special
The Central Empowered Committee (CEC) has come down heavily on the state government for allowing illegal construction and widening of a road inside Tungareshwar Wildlife Sanctuary by the Balyogi Shree Sadanand Maharaj Ashram Sanstha. The CEC in a report submitted on September 29 has recommended to the Supreme Court to …
The government has taken an initiative to amend the Bangladesh Environment Protection Act- 1995 for making it time- befitting to address the environmental hazards and protect the nature. State minister for land Mostafizur Rahman yesterday informed the House that the draft of the amendments to the act has been sent …
LEH: Anyone visiting Ladakh for the first time can be left gasping for breath due to low oxygen levels in the high altitude region. But a successful plantation drive has brought about environmental changes-driving up oxygen content by 50% and, most unusually, making it rain, say Indian scientists.
Labourer Has Single-Handedly Nurtured 2,500 Trees Since 2001 Vijaysinh Parmar | TNN Khambha (Amreli district): Those entering the sleepy town of Khambha in Amreli district by bus won
Task of planting the saplings has been taken up by the Forest Department SOCIAL CONCERN: Dharmapala Swamy of Adi Chunchanagiri Shakhamath watering a saplinng planted by him near Hampankatta in Mangalore on Sunday. MANGALORE: Plans are afoot to grow 2,000 flowering plants in the city. Vijaya Kumar, District Forest Officer, …
NAGERCOIL: The Department of Forest has decided to plant seven lakh saplings under Tamil Nadu Afforestation Programme with financial assistance from Japan, said the District Forest Officer, V. Sundarraju. Addressing a seminar on
The Chhotanagpur Catholic Mission Cooperative Credit Society is celebrating 100 years of its success by planting saplings. This year, it has distributed a loan of Rs 1 crore among villagers across the state for planting trees. About 10,000 villagers from across Jharkhand have benefited from this novel initiative. They received …
In those South American countries where forest plantations are important or have potential for development, investment in them is one option for creating jobs.
The Delhi Statement on Cooperation in Environment by ministers of environment belonging to member states of SAARC at the meeting in New Delhi on 20th October 2009. The ministers have agreed on specific joint actions to further strengthen environmental governance, biodiversity conservation, and climate change cooperation. The Environment Ministers of …
In 2007, when the Bali Action Plan introduced REDD as a possible method of mitigating climate change, it thereby expanded the potential role of forests in the post-2012 climate change regime. Forests have the capacity not only to
Jharkhand is all set to get Rs 950 crore from the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (Campa) to rejuvenate over 4,000 hectares of forests as a part of a nation-wide effort to promote afforestation in areas where forest land was used up for development projects. In Jharkhand, 4,700 …
Letter to Principal Secretary (forests) govt of Gujarat to Assistant Inspector General of Forests regarding diversion of 1840 ha of reserved forest land for development of port based Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Mundra and Dhrub villages of Mundra taluka in Kutch East Forest Division in favour of M/s Mundra …
The World Bank offered to provide Bangladesh necessary supports for creating its social-safety net, alleviating poverty and developing infrastructures. The assurance came from the World Bank president, Robert Zoellick, when he called on the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, at her suite at Hotel Grand Hyatt at 17:30pm (local time) Wednesday. …
Bangladesh has sought 5 billion US dollars from the developed countries in compensation as an affected country due to climate change caused by global warming. An official announcement in Dhaka yesterday said, State Minister for Environment and Forest Hasan Mahmud placed the demand during a high-profile meeting of the United …
Coimbatore: In line with the recommendations of the Forest Commission led by retired IAS officer, P.V. Rajaraman, the State Government is embarking on an ambitious programme to renew the forest cover in the State, said N. Selvaraj, Minister for Forests on Thursday. The Minister, accompanied by the Conservator of Forests, …
