In an order that will have far reaching consequences, the Supreme Court imposed a blanket ban on tourism in the core areas of tiger reserves with immediate effect on July 24. The order is up for review within three weeks, but the stage has been set for a period of considerable turmoil in matters related to wildlife tourism, particularly that where the tiger is involved.

There has been wide coverage of the development in the print and electronic media and the virtual world too has come alive with opinions, claims, allegations and counter allegations.

Area adjacent to Muthikulam and Siruvani forests

The Tribunal for Kerala Forest (Vesting and Management of Ecologically Fragile Lands)- First Additional District Court has declared as evergreen forest 37.32 hectares of land claimed by a private party as cultivated area at Anakaranam Malavaram of Palakkayam village in the Mannarkad Forest Division . The scheduled property in survey number 2020\3 of Palakkayam village was notified as ecologically fragile land under the Kerala Forest (Vesting and Management of Ecologically Fragile Lands) Act, 2003 which came into effect on June 2, 2000

Station director of Akashavani lauds role of radio in imparting awareness among masses

Former secretary to forest and environment department A N Yellappa Reddy said, including Western Ghats to UNESCO’s world heritage list would be apt, as most of the forest is already destroyed in the name of progress. He was speaking at an interaction programme on ‘role of media in developmental process’ here on Tuesday. He said, encroaching forest land for the purpose is not development. Among 45,000 applications pending at the Centre for permission for mining, 19,000 belongs to Karnataka.

Kokrajhar, July 19: An inquiry committee of the Bodoland Territorial Council Legislative Assembly has recommended immediate action to protect the forests in the BTC area, especially in the Nayekgao

Welfare schemes being drawn up for tribals

Forest Minsiter K.T. Pachamal said the State government was making efforts to conserve forests and expand forest areas. Giving away financial assistance to several beneficiaries at the Gudiyatham Forest Range office on Tuesday, the Minister said the forest expanse had shrunk during the previous DMK government.

As the CBI continues to probe into the captive coal block allotment scam, Orissa forest department has recommended that nine coal mines of Mahanadi Coalfields Limited be closed for operating withou

With the lion safari and breeding centre gradually taking shape in about 300 hectares of Fisher forest in Etawah district of Uttar Pradesh, purebred lions, unlike their counterparts in Gir and Juna

Chandigarh: The Master Plan for the city will focus on preserving the character of Chandigarh along with making suitable use of the space that is available in the landlocked city.

New Delhi: Urbanization, road expansion and illegal mining seem to have taken a toll on the green cover in the national capital region (NCR) between 2000 and 2009.

Itanagar: The Arunachal Pradesh government has issued strict instruction to all the officers of forest department and wild-life divisions throughout the State for protection of forest, wildlife and bio-diversity.

The instruction was issued by the Chief Minister Nabam Tuki while considering the plea of Fringe Peoples Forum-WL (FPF-WF) of East Siang district for stringent measures to save forest and wildlife recently, official sources informed on Wednesday.