Forests

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding illegal cutting of trees in village Roshanpur, district Patiala, Punjab, 30/06/2021

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of H. C. Arora Vs State of Punjab & Others dated 30/06/2021 regarding illegal cutting of 176 fully grown trees in village Roshanpur, block Bhunar Heri, district Patiala, Punjab. The applicant had made a series of representations to the concerned departments, without any result.

Judgement Date: 
30/06/2021
Tags:
Trees, Deforestation, Patiala (D), Punjab, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court
Forests

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding cutting of trees for construction of water tanks, village Nimar Badesara, district Bhiwani, Haryana, 28/05/2021

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Subhkaran Vs State of Haryana dated 28/05/2021.

Grievance in this application is against cutting of trees by the health department for establishing water tanks at khevat No. 63/2, khasra No. 207, village Nimar Badesara, district Bhiwani, Haryana. It is stated that the trees in question are of rare species – Khair and Kheri.

Judgement Date: 
28/05/2021
Tags:
Deforestation, Bhiwani (D), Haryana, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Khair
Forests

Illicit harvest, complicit goods: the state of illegal deforestation for agriculture

Tropical forests around the world are being destroyed at an alarming rate, even in 2020 when the global economy slowed dramatically during the pandemic. A new report offers insight into a primary driver of this deforestation – and our unwitting complicity as consumers.

Publication Date: 
20/05/2021
Forest Trends
Tags:
Tropical Forests, Deforestation, Agriculture, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, India, Global, Africa
Environment

The importance of resource security for poverty eradication

As humanity’s demand on natural resources is increasingly exceeding Earth’s biological rate of regeneration, environmental deterioration such as greenhouse gas accumulation in the atmosphere, ocean acidification and groundwater depletion is accelerating. As a result, the capacity of ecosystems to renew biomass, herein referred to as ‘biocapacity’, is becoming the material bottleneck for the human economy.

Original Source

Publication Date: 
26/04/2021
Mathis Wackernagel, Laurel Hanscom, Priyangi Jayasinghe & et al
Nature Sustainability
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1-8
Tags:
Environment, Common Property Resources, Poverty, Biomass, Biodiversity, Deforestation, Land Use, Developing Countries, Ecology, Ecosystems, Ecosystem Services
Forests

Forest governance by indigenous and tribal peoples. an opportunity for climate action in Latin America and the Caribbean

Deforestation rates are significantly lower in Indigenous and Tribal territories where governments have formally recognized collective land rights, according to a new report.

Publication Date: 
25/03/2021
FAO
Tags:
Forests, Community Forest Management (CFM), Indigenous Peoples, Tribals, Deforestation, Traditional Knowledge, Climate Mitigation, Governance, South Africa, Caribbean
Forests

The collective effort to end deforestation: a pathway for companies to raise their ambition

Companies are realising the need to act on deforestation. Despite COVID-19, 2020 saw a 27% increase in companies disclosing on how they are managing deforestation and 93% of companies we analyzed are taking at least one industry-accepted action to safeguard forests.

Publication Date: 
22/03/2021
Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)
Tags:
Deforestation, Industry, Forests
Forests

Forest degradation in the Brazilian Amazon: public policy must target phenomenon related to deforestation

This Insight provides a brief introduction to the topic of tropical degradation, a summary of key results, and directions for future research and policy. The analysis reinforces the recent relevance of degradation in the Brazilian Amazon, and finds that there is a close relationship between degradation and deforestation.

Publication Date: 
09/03/2021
Clarissa Gandour, Diego Menezes, João Pedro Vieira, Juliano J. Assunção
Climate Policy Initiative
Tags:
Deforestation, Land Degradation, Amazon, Brazil
Environment

Written arguments by Bharat Kumar Jain to the NGT for the preservation of Mount Abu, Rajasthan, 08/03/2021

Written arguments on behalf of Bharat Kumar Jain for the protection and preservation of the ecological area of Mount Abu, situated in the Aravalli range in Rajasthan.

In terms of the notification of Eco-sensitive zone of Mount Abu, various construction activities were absolutely prohibited and accordingly when it was observed that under the garb of renovation various construction activities were going on by the politically and financially influential people, the application was filed, raising a substantial question relating to the environment.

Judgement Date: 
08/03/2021
Tags:
Abu Hills, Ecology, Land Use, Rajasthan, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Deforestation, Aravalli Range
Forests

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding felling of trees for a new runway by International Airport Authority Limited in Delhi, 02/03/2021

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vivek Avasthi Vs Ministry of Environment Forest & Climate Change & Others dated 02/03/2021. Grievance in the application was against felling of trees by Delhi International Airport Authority Limited and its agency, M/s GMR Group, for expansion of a new runway for the airport. It was stated that the felling of trees was without complying with the requirements of planting the requisite number of trees.

Judgement Date: 
02/03/2021
Tags:
Trees, Deforestation, Delhi, Air Transport, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court
Forests

Society, economy and forests: the unfolding forest transition in China and the lessons for the future

The paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the changes witnessed in the forest sector in China during the last three decades and the key drivers that have contributed to the country’s forest transition.

Publication Date: 
01/02/2021
FAO
Tags:
Forests, Deforestation, Ecosystem Services, Afforestation, China

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