GUWAHATI, Aug 12: Encroachment over forest land has drastically reduced the roaming field for elephants, resulting in frequent man-elephant clashes that has claimed nearly 500 lives in the last ten years.
KENDRAPARA: The crusade against illegal prawn farming is making inroads into seaside villages of Mahakalapada block. In the last two years, the forest and district officials have demolished 1,252 hectares out of the 2,529 hectares being used for prawn farming, said Prasanna Kumar Behera, the divisional forest officer of Bhitarkanika National Park.
FOREST RIGHTS ACT
WHILE the poor and marginalised tribal community is yet to benefit out of the Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006, thanks to procedural and legal hurdles, the hill and forest areas in Salem are getting swept by yet another wave of illegal encroachments.
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has told the Kerala government that no encroachment should be allowed in the tourist hotspot of Munnar and a central panel's recommendations in this regard should not be diluted.
In response to media reports alleging a land scam in Bannerghatta, Government Land Protection Task Force Chairman V Balasubramaniam on Wednesday, inspected the Bannerghatta Zilla Panchayat vicinity.
RS 50L FINE FOR ENCROACHERS, STIFFER PENALTY FOR POACHERS, MORE POWERS TO THE FOREST DEPT. THESE ARE SOME OF THE CHANGES PROPOSED TO PROTECT THE COUNTRY
KOKRAJHAR, June24: Forest mismangement has ruined the forest wealth in BTC. The department of Forest has admitted that already 30 per cent of BTC forest land is under illegal encroachment.
Repeated claims of the government of having retrieved encroached land notwithstanding, the illegal practice has been going on unabated due to political patronage.
The Delhi government finds itself in a piquant situation over the implementation of the Tribals and Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act.
Raipur: The maize he grew on the small zig-zagged shaped patch of forest land was the only food for his family. But in 1998, the forest department picked up Bir Singh Markam, and along with 75 other men in his village in Bastar, and jailed him for illegally occupying forest land.
