Forests

GUWAHATI, Sept 6 – Rampant deforestation in the forests of the vast North Bank Landscape (NBL) spread along the north of the Brahmaputra extending up to the eastern Himalayan foothills, across the States of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, has been at the root of the raging man-elephant conflict in Udalguri and Sonitpur districts. Until recently, the NBL -- distributed among 19 districts of the two

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Mumbai Under sharp criticism for the increasing number of road accidents that have resulted from trees falling on passersby and faced with a staff shortage, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has now decided to allow private contractors to prune old and dangerous trees. “We have decided to appoint private contractors to cut and prune very old and very heavy trees and branches,” said

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LUCKNOW: The plantation exercise started by Agra forest division with an aim to provide an eco-protection cover to the 17th century monument has struck a chord with the people.

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Continuing its protest over the Rs 10,000-crore Polavaram power project on the Godavari river in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, the Orissa government has filed a petition in the Supreme Court opposing the Centre’s decision to give an environmental nod for the controversial project. “In our petition in the Supreme Court, we have demanded the cancellation of the environmental clearance given to the

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Golaghat, Sept. 5: Nur Hussain was 17 when his father Abul settled inside Rengma reserve forest in Golaghat district. The five-member family from Dhubri district was among the few who had set up huts on the southern part of the reserve forest. “When we came, Rengma was a dense forest where nobody dared to enter.

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Bhubaneshwar, Sept. 5: The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Sunday upped its ante against the Centre and announced that it would hold a massive public rally at Malkangiri on September 12, to protest against the latter’s forest clearance to Polavaram multi-purpose dam project. “The BJD will organise a massive rally at Malkangiri on September 12.

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Implementation of the ‘Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act’ is ‘Zero’ in Goa, according to Minister of Tribal Affairs Kanti Lal Bhuria. The Minister said he has written to the Chief Ministers of the States which have not performed well regarding the Act.

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ITANAGAR, Sept 5 – The Arunachal Pradesh Government has said that it will soon get Rs 241.36 crore as net present value against two hydro-electric projects for diversion of forest land for non-forest use. Dorjee Khandu, CM said this in reply to a question in the Assembly by Congress MLA Tenzing Norbu Thongdok yesterday. He said, out of the total amount, Rs 238.72 crore was lying with Suprem

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M Rafi Ahmed | ENS YOGANATHAN, a TNSTC conductor and an eco-activist, is all set to launch a programme nonpareil to see his city grow greener all through the year. Christening his pet project as 'Uyir Vazha Oru Maram', Yoganathan told Express that his sole intention was to create awareness among the school students on the importance of making the city green. Elaborating on the green proje

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