The recent removal of encroachments around Kaziranga triggered strong protests by the Kaziranga Jeep Safari Association and other stakeholders.
The efforts of the Feb.
The Union government is reviewing its landmark initiative, the Forest Rights Act, four years after enacting it and two high-level groups submitted their assessment in the first week of January. But theenvironment ministry is in no mood to accept Forest Rights Act review finds out Down To Earth.
Jammu, Feb 1: A meeting of the Executive Committee of Channi Himmat Residents Association was held under the chairmanship of its president V.K.Grover in which situation arising out of disruption caused in anti encroachment drive of Green Belt and its restoration launched by the J&K Housing Board and various State Government authorities recently was discussed.
Jammu: With 14,539 hectares of forest land having been encroached upon in the state, Forest Minister Mian Altaf Ahmed, while releasing the J&K State Forest Policy 2010 here today, not only laid emphasis on the protection of forest cover, but also announced that the Forest Protection Force (FPF) would be provided arms to check timber smuggling.
Addressing mediapersons here today, the minister sa
Jammu: The Jammu & Kashmir government has abandoned the Rs 740 crore integrated watershed development project after the World Bank sought a disclaimer from the Union government that the aid plan would not recognize India
KOCHI: A committee to look into instances of man-animal conflicts in the State and suggest mitigation measures will be formed soon, Forest Minister Benoy Viswom has said.
He was speaking at a Farmers' Mela, organised by the Institute of Genetic and Tree Breeding, Coimbatore, here on Monday.
A special report by Down To Earth on Koyna sanctuary situated in Satara district, Maharashtra, where the windmills and resorts replace wildlife with government's help.
LUCKNOW: The state government's move to provide relief to the tribals and forest dwellers by withdrawing cases lodged against them by the police and forest department for petty offences has been caught in a `legal tangle'.
While cases filed under forest laws are being summarily disposed of by the forest department by asking the tribals and dwellers to accept the charges, even if they have not c
Chunks of Intanki National Park in Nagaland are sold for Rs 2,500 a hectare as the forest department looks on. Read this Down To Earth Report on encroachers’ settlements in this national park.
