Forests

Sinharaja road: UNESCO calls for report

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has called for a report from the Environment Ministry on allegations that a road is being built through the Sinharaja Fores

Publication Date: 
17/09/2011
Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)
Tags:
Sri Lanka, Roads, UNESCO, Forests, Deforestation, Wildlife, Ecosystems, National Parks, Forest Conservation
Forests

Wealth of forests withheld

In partnership with forest departments, communities across India have raised forests worth millions of rupees in the hope of getting shares in timber revenue. Now that forests are ready for harvest, officials make excuses or give pittance. Read this Special report in Down To Earth.

Publication Date: 
15/09/2011
Sayantan Bera, Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava, Aparna Pallavi & et al
Down to Earth
20
8
Tags:
Andhra Pradesh, Benefit Sharing, Forest Conservation, Forest Policy, Forest Resources, Forest Rights Act 2006, Forests, Gujarat, India, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Minor Forest Produce, West Bengal
Land

Law Commission drafts Bill to protect agricultural land

But the million dollar question is: Will the govt adopt it?

Publication Date: 
09/09/2011
Herald (Panjim)
Tags:
Land Acquisition, Agriculture, Forest Conservation, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Farmers, Land
Forests

New plan to restore 150 million hectares of forest

Conservationists and politicians meeting in Bonn on Friday launched a new initiative to restore 150 million hectares (580,000 square miles) of deforested and degraded forests, reports the World Res

Publication Date: 
03/09/2011
Environment News Network
Tags:
Economic Development, Climate Change, Forests, Forest Conservation, Biodiversity
Mining

Should M’laya go on mining forever’

“Every place in Meghalaya has some mineral or the other. Should we exploit these non-renewable resources at great cost to the environment or use the renewable resources which are available in abundance?” the Chief Minister asked.

Publication Date: 
02/09/2011
Shillong Times (Shillong)
Tags:
Minerals, Forest Rights Act 2006, Forest Conservation, Agriculture, Biomass, East Khasi Hills, Environment, Development, Mining
Forests

Gujarat to bring addl area under mangrove cover

Gujarat’s environment and forest department is aiming to bring an additional area of 120 sq km along the state’s coastline under mangrove cover by the end of the financial year 2011-12.

Publication Date: 
22/08/2011
Business Line (New Delhi)
Tags:
Mangroves, Forests, Afforestation, Forest Conservation, Ecosystems, Jamnagar (D), Bharuch, Surat (D), Valsad (D), Fisheries, Firewood, Marine Ecosystems
Forests

Brazil revisits forest code

A tough-minded law has boosted Brazil's environmental record in recent years by helping to drive the rate of destruction in the Amazon rainforest to historic lows. But a backlash in the hinterlands is threatening to weaken the country's forest code and push deforestation rates back up again.

Publication Date: 
18/08/2011
Jeff Tollefson
Nature
476
7360
259-260
Tags:
Forests, Brazil, Forest Policy, Legislation, Forest Conservation, Deforestation, Tropical Forests, Land Use
Climate Change

The economic potential of bioenergy for climate change mitigation with special attention given to implications for the land system

Generating energy from crops instead of oil and coal can have counterproductive effects. “The use of biomass can lead to additional emissions of greenhouse gases”, says lead author Alexander Popp of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). “This is the case if forests get cut down to plant energy crops instead.” Forests are important CO2 sinks. At the same time, biomass is expected to play an important role in  future energy systems.

http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/6/3/034017/fulltext

Publication Date: 
18/08/2011
Alexander Popp, Jan Philipp Dietrich, Hermann Lotze-Campen & et al
Environmental Research Letters
1-9
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, Energy, Biomass, Biofuel, Forest Conservation, Food Security, Biodiversity, Land Use, Water Management, Food Prices, Bio Fuel Crops, Carbon Sinks, Green House Gases
Forests

Cities for Forests' campaign launched

Bangalore :World Wildlife Fund (WWF) India has launched a campaign in the City urging people to support forest conservation.

The national youth-level campaign, known as ‘Cities for Forests’, focuses on creating awareness about the link between forests and human wellbeing.

Publication Date: 
02/08/2011
Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
Tags:
Afforestation, WWF, Forest Conservation, Bangalore (T), Trees
Forests

Protection of forest resources (Question asked in the Monsoon session of LS 2011)

Protection of forest resources (Question asked in the Monsoon session of LS 2011).

Publication Date: 
01/08/2011
Tags:
Forests, India, Parliament, Statistics, Forest Conservation, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Forest Resources

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