The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests has urged the environment ministry to take stringent steps to curb the illegal felling of trees. No action plans was prepared by the ministry to control illegal cutting of trees.

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of P. Edwin Wilson Vs State of Tamil Nadu & Others dated 01/02/2019 regarding measures to protect the trees planted at public places and along the avenues in Chennai. The grievance in the application is that laying of concrete and cement around the trees, without any space is detrimental to the health of trees and environment. Avenue trees need to have adequate space around them.

Tanzanian government on Sunday announced to conduct a six-month operation to remove invaders from the forests and reserved areas across the east African nation.

Lack of water is playing a major role in limiting global forest growth as the climate warms, a recent study has suggested.

NAGPUR: In a bid to boost 33 crore plantations under the ‘Green Maharashtra Mission’ in 2019, the state government has decided to implement the ‘Miyawaki Dense Forest Project’ which will be modelle

Some 38,000 trees have been burned down in a devastating fire that broke at a reserve forest at Jagdishpur in Madhabpur upazila on Saturday.

The study, published in the journal Atmospheric Environment, used six roadside locations in the UK, as test sites where the green infrastructure was between one to two metres away from the road.

CHANDIGARH: The state of Punjab, which has the lowest forest cover and percentage of land under green cover in the country, is finally taking initiatives to better its position.

CHANDIGARH: Sangrur based environment activist Amandeep Aggarwal feels disillusioned that his grit and perseverance in exposing the alleged rampant tree felling and misplaced compensatory afforesta

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Krishan Nand Rai Vs Government Polytechnic College, Deoria & Others dated 11/12/2018. This application was originally filed against grant of permission for felling of 57 tress by the Divisional Forest Officer in favour of Government Polytechnic College, Chariyaon Buzurg, Deoria, Uttar Pradesh on the ground that requisite conditions had not been imposed while permitting felling of the trees.

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