Forests

Builders booked for hacking mangroves in Navi Mumbai

NAVI MUMBAI: Following complaints from the tehsildars of Thane (Krishna Jadhav) and Panvel (Dattatray Kedare), the NRI police has booked several Navi Mumbai-based developers for allegedly destroying mangroves along the Palm Beach Road near Seawoods.

Publication Date: 
07/03/2009
Times Of India (Mumbai)
Tags:
Mangroves, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Coastal Regulations
Habitat And Urbanisation

Goa violates regulation on seaside construction

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Publication Date: 
02/03/2009
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Coastal Development, Goa, Coastal Regulations
Environment

Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment & Forests 202nd report on coastal management programmes

Coastal environment plays a vital role in nation

Publication Date: 
01/03/2009
Rajya Sabha Secretariat
Tags:
Coastal Development, Government Of India (GOI), Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), India, Coastal Regulations, Coastal Regulation Zone Notification

 They lived with dinosaurs

Sea turtles have inspired far-reaching conservation programmes. Pity, they are still in peril Sea turtles are magical animals, all the more mystifying because of our ignorance about them. For millions of years, they have wandered the oceans. But today, they are threatened by habitat loss, lighting on beaches, which disorients hatchlings and prevents them from finding the ocean, pollution

Publication Date: 
14/01/2009
Down to Earth
Tags:
Marine Ecosystems, Wildlife, Turtles, Special Economic Zones (SEZ), India, Coastal Regulations
Industry

Coastal Regulation Zone clearance for proposed waterfront development project at Mundra, district Kachchh, Gujarat of M/s Mundra Port and SEZ Ltd (12&19/01/2009)

Coastal Regulation Zone clearance for proposed waterfront development project at Mundra, district Kachchh, Gujarat of M/s Mundra Port and SEZ Ltd (12&19/01/2009).

Publication Date: 
12/01/2009
Ministry of Environment and Forests
Tags:
Adani Port and SEZ Ltd, Gujarat, Coastal Regulations
Habitat And Urbanisation

 The word is management

The question is whom to manage and what to regulate An official of the environment ministry said that the new notification is better because it is site specific.

Publication Date: 
30/12/2008
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Coastal Development, Sea Level Rise, Habitat And Urbanisation, Marine Fisherfolk, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), India, Coastal Regulations, Coastal Regulation Zone Notification
Habitat And Urbanisation

 A divided house

Most coastal states, except Orissa, against the notification; environment ministry will take a call in June 2009 The ball is now in the environment ministry

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30/12/2008
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Habitat And Urbanisation

 The CMZ notification

Key differences between CMZ and CRZ View image Genesis and features of CMZ vis-a-vis the Coastal Regulation Zone Notification 1991 Key features Coastal areas categorized as

Publication Date: 
30/12/2008
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Mangroves, Coastal Development, Corals, Aquaculture, Habitat And Urbanisation, Marine Fisherfolk, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), India, Coastal Regulations, Coastal Regulation Zone Notification
Habitat And Urbanisation

 How public?

At the public consultation meeting in Mumbai on August 19, about 30 people spoke out against the CMZ notification. N D Koli, general secretary of National Fishworkers

Publication Date: 
30/12/2008
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Habitat And Urbanisation

 Run-up to CMZ

The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests formed a 13-member committee headed by M S Swaminathan (see Interview) to review the Coastal Regulation Zone. In its report, the committee noted that

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30/12/2008
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