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MUMBAI: A team of senior forest officials and environmentalists were heckled, abused and threatened on Tuesday in the presence of police personnel when they went for an inspection of the Dahisar site where mangroves were being systematically destroyed over the past few weeks.

Replying to query of a mediaperson about the reason for his presence in Uttarakhand, Tarun Vijay said,

The World Bank (WB) will provide the government with non-lending technical assistance to help carry out various studies for conservation of the Sundarbans forest, the largest single mangrove ecosystem in the world.

The project will develop a programme that will integrate prioritised interventions to address the region's main conservation and development challenges like poverty reduction, climat

On Friday, the Supreme Court in its first hearing of the forest law violations in the Orissa mining scam asked the state government to file compliance report on the recommendations of the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) within six weeks.

THE National Green Tribunal Bill was passed by the Lok Sabha on Friday. The Bill allows for the setting up of specialised environment laws. There are at present 5,600 environment related cases pending in the courts.

Stung by criticism that he delays projects, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has left it to the Prime Minister to decide on the mechanism for approving coal mines. Jairam has attributed the holding up of projects to an attempt by his Ministry

BHUBANESWAR: Development is fine. But when it comes at the cost of precious green cover, it brings in catastrophe. And it says all as the rapid loss of canopy is linked to the rising mercury level.

The Capital city has sacrificed 2,626 trees during 2005-

TALCHER: In view of large-scale destruction of forest cover due to coal mining, the Forest Department has sought around Rs 7.17 crore from various coal mining authorities for wildlife management plan.