Forests

Chipko to save trees on Nepean Sea Road

MUMBAI: To protest against the BMC's plan to chop and relocate trees for the Nepean Sea Road widening project, school students on Tuesday will hug trees in the area reenacting the erstwhile chipko movement. The widening of this road will require relocation of 54 trees while 99 others will have to be chopped.

Publication Date: 
17/02/2009
Times Of India (Mumbai)
Tags:
Forest Conservation, Trees, Chipko Movement, Maharashtra, Mumbai
Environment

Department-related parliamentary standing committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests: 201st report

The latest report of the Parliamentary standing committee on environment & forests presented to Rajya Sabha on Feb 17, 2009. Expresses serious concern over the ineffective implementation of Ganga Action Plan and Yamuna Action Plan.

Publication Date: 
17/02/2009
Rajya Sabha Secretariat
Tags:
Environment, River Pollution, Air Pollution, Yamuna Action Plan, Ganga Action Plan, Forest Management, Forest Conservation, Afforestation, Waste Management, Wildlife, Tiger, Environment Education, Water Pollution
Forests

Plant a sapling , grow a memory

People adopt trees in an MCD park to remember the dead

Publication Date: 
16/02/2009
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Plantation Crops, Forest Conservation, Trees, Delhi
Forests

 Firefighters all

Himachal Pradesh gives incentives to prevent forest fires The Himachal Pradesh forest department has decided to reward community initiatives in the state that are successful in averting forestfires. The annual reward would vary between Rs 5,000 and Rs 10,000, depending on how successful a joint forest management committee is in checking fires. The programme for giving cash rewards for

Publication Date: 
14/02/2009
Sumana Narayanan
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forests, Forest Management, Forest Conservation, Forest Fires, Public Participation, Himachal Pradesh
Forests

 Tree is not timber

Madhya Pradesh

Publication Date: 
14/02/2009
Aparna Pallavi
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forests, Groundwater Recharge, Forest Management, Forest Conservation, Forest Personnel, Deforestation, Forest Products, Tribals, Baiga, Public Participation, Madhya Pradesh, Dindori (D), Sustainable Development

 Money on trees

Book>> The Little REDD Book

Publication Date: 
14/02/2009
Chetan Agarwal
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forests, Forest Conservation, Deforestation, Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, Carbon Sinks, Benefit Sharing, Global
Forests

Ambulance to save city trees

New Delhi: NDMC

Publication Date: 
11/02/2009
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Forest Conservation, Trees, Municipal Corporations, Delhi
Forests

Laokhowa-Burachapori forest area boost to conservation efforts

HOJAI, Feb 4

Publication Date: 
05/02/2009
Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
Tags:
Ecosystems, Forest Resources, Forest Conservation, Wildlife, Assam, Nagaon (D)
Climate Change

Forests - A viable option for mitigating climate change

Forests contribute to global climate change through their influence on the global carbon (C) cycle. The world's forests store an estimated 536 Giga tons of Carbon (GtC) in biomass, 1104GtC in soils (to a depth of 3m) and additional amounts in dead organic matter pools, including fine and coarse woody debris.

Publication Date: 
01/02/2009
Meenakshi Gupta, M. Saleem, L. M. Gupta
Indian Forester
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Tags:
Forests, Forest Management, Forest Conservation, Afforestation, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Green House Gases, Climate Mitigation, Carbon Sinks
Biodiversity

Challenges for a business case for high-biodiversity REDD projects and schemes

This report aims to investigate how the biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation agendas can be linked in ways compatible with current and forthcoming markets for ecosystem services. Is there a business case for high-biodiversity REDD projects and schemes?

Publication Date: 
01/02/2009
Johannes Ebeling, Jan Fehse
EcoSecurities Limited
Tags:
Forest Conservation, Deforestation, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Tax, Climate Change, Emissions Trading, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Conservation

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