HUMAN population growth is the primary threat to the world's environment. Each person requires energy, space and resources to survive, resulting in environmental losses. Our population is rapidly rising beyond the earth's ability to regenerate and sustain us with a reasonable quality of life. We are exceeding the carrying capacity of our planet, challenging the existence of several species, including our own.

Mumbai, July 28 The Bombay High Court on Monday gave the go-ahead for the development and infrastructure projects which do not involve destruction of mangroves in the Navi Mumbai area.
A division bench comprising Justice J N Patel and Justice K U Chandiwal permitted the CIDCO and the Central Railways to go ahead with those projects which pertain to public utility infrastructures, development of land, and cleaning and maintenance of artificial water channels and sewage systems.

Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Ali Mirza, who also holds the portfolio of forests, has directed the forest secretary to intensify the efforts to check illegal felling of trees and illegal transportation of timber to protect forestry and environment.

BS Reporter / New Delhi July 10, 2008, 0:55 IST The Supreme Court today vacated its own stay order against the development of Mundra Port and special economic zone (SEZ), granting a major relief to the Adani Group, the developers of the SEZ. The multi-product SEZ in Gujarat was stalled by the order of the vacation Bench of the court on July 1. The Adani Group had not been heard when the status quo order was passed.

Mumbai, July 8 The state government has notified over 3,000 hectares of mangroves in and around Mumbai as

A tiger census in Sundarbans is in the offing. The census, which will take place in November comes against the backdrop of conflicting reports about the exact number of big cats in the world's largest mangrove forest. As per the last census conducted in 2005, there were 344 tigers in the Sunderbans, but a section of the media reported that the number was dwindling, the state forest minister, Mr Ananta Roy informed the state Assembly today.

Flip through a travel brochure, and you're likely to see pictures of sun and sand in Southeast Asia, of luxury lodges in the Serengeti, of scuba diving in the bejewelled coral reefs of the Caribbean, but what the brochure won't reveal is the environmental cost of your trip. That beach in Thailand may once have housed precious mangroves, which were ripped up to make way for your hotel.

Scientists have predicted more destruction and calamity in India if it is hit by another tsunami. The reason: India's natural barriers against tsunami have been badly damaged in the 2004 tsunami and it will take more than a decade for them to heal. Scientists in a recent study warned that mangroves, coral reefs, tidal inlets and saline area forests of the country, which act as natural barrier against tsunami, have been so badly damaged that if the country is hit by another tsunami, its impact will be more catastrophic.