What is the Supreme Court directive on sacred groves? | Explained
1 month, 2 weeks ago

What is the Supreme Court directive on sacred groves? | Explained

The Hindu  

The story so far: On December 18, 2024, the Supreme Court directed the Forest Department of Rajasthan to map on the ground and via satellite every ‘sacred grove’ in detail. In early 2024, the Rajasthan government — responding to interlocutory applications seeking directions to implement this order — said that sacred groves were being identified and documented as ‘forest lands’. The Supreme Court’s directions also obligate the State government to constitute a ‘Community Reserve Management Committee’ to conserve, maintain, and manage the reserve and to protect wildlife and habitats. If sacred groves had fallen under the FRA’s purview, they would have been part of ‘community forest resources’. All sacred groves outside forest land, if any, also come under the FRA’s purview if a proposal to notify them as ‘forest land’ comes into being.

Wildlife Community Rajasthan Court State Committee Department Forest Land Supreme Sacred Cec Reserve Gram Fra Groves Community Reserves Gram Sabhas Wildlife Department Sacred Groves Community Forest Resources  groves  department  committee  forest  land  supreme  sacred  court  explained  wildlife  reserve  community  gram  directive

History of this topic

Put communities in charge of conserving sacred groves
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Put communities in charge of conserving sacred groves

Hindustan Times  

The Supreme Court’s recent judgment directing the government to adopt measures for the protection of sacred groves brings into focus the fundamental tension between the State and communities in environmental governance. The Court’s seeming endorsement of community management is most aligned with the community forest resource rights under the Forest Rights Act, which empower tribal and traditional forest-dwelling communities to …

Formulate policy to manage sacred groves, Supreme Court tells Centre
3 months, 1 week ago

Formulate policy to manage sacred groves, Supreme Court tells Centre

The Hindu  

In a judgment on Wednesday, the Supreme Court told the Union government to create a comprehensive policy for the management of sacred groves across the country. However, the judgment authored by Justice Mehta aligned the preservation of sacred groves with the cultural and traditional rights of entire communities while asking the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change to spearhead …

Supreme Court Issues Directions To Protect 'Sacred Groves', Lauds Rajasthan's Piplantri Village Initiative To Plant 111 Trees For Every Girl Child Born
Trending News
3 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court Issues Directions To Protect 'Sacred Groves', Lauds Rajasthan's Piplantri Village Initiative To Plant 111 Trees For Every Girl Child Born

Live Law  

While pronouncing judgment on an application in the TN Godavarman case, the Supreme Court today lauded Rajasthan's Piplantri village for its initiative to plant 111 trees for every girl child born.A bench of Justices BR Gavai, SVN Bhatti and Sandeep Mehta, conveying its appreciation for the initiative, which was led by the village's "visionary" Sarpanch Shyam Sunder Paliwal, said,"This. While …

Supreme Court Issues Directions To Protect 'Sacred Groves', Lauds Rajasthan's Piplantri Village Initiative To Plant 111 Trees For Every Girl Child Born
Trending News
3 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court Issues Directions To Protect 'Sacred Groves', Lauds Rajasthan's Piplantri Village Initiative To Plant 111 Trees For Every Girl Child Born

Live Law  

While pronouncing judgment on an application in the TN Godavarman case, the Supreme Court today lauded Rajasthan's Piplantri village for its initiative to plant 111 trees for every girl child born.A bench of Justices BR Gavai, SVN Bhatti and Sandeep Mehta, conveying its appreciation for the initiative, which was led by the village's "visionary" Sarpanch Shyam Sunder Paliwal, said,"This. While …

The sacred acres
8 months, 1 week ago

The sacred acres

The Hindu  

The once-ubiquitous Kaavus, Kerala’s sacred groves, are now rare sanctuaries and unlikely places of worship. Encroachment on public lands and the breakdown of joint families in Kerala spelled doom for many sacred groves, bringing their number to fewer than 1,000 from 10,000 a couple of decades ago. A few among them are Nagakesar; white dammar; Indian white oak; Indian devil …

Calm assessment: On the extent of ‘deemed forest’
1 year, 1 month ago

Calm assessment: On the extent of ‘deemed forest’

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court of India has put on pause an ambitious effort by the Centre to amend India’s Forest Act, 1980, that was brought in to check the wanton razing of forests for ‘non-forestry uses’. There is apparently, the Centre says, a reluctance among private citizens to cultivate private plantations and orchards, despite their significant ecological benefits, for fear that …

Analysis | Why has the creation of eco-sensitive zones provoked protests?
2 years, 2 months ago

Analysis | Why has the creation of eco-sensitive zones provoked protests?

The Hindu  

Ecologically sensitive zones are intended to protect ‘protected areas’ – national parks and wildlife sanctuaries – by transitioning from an area of lower protection to an area of higher protection. Protected areas cover 5.26% of India’s land area as 108 national parks and 564 wildlife sanctuaries. The ESZs span notified forests outside protected areas, most of which could also come …

Award for Coimbatore scientist for research on sacred groves
4 years, 8 months ago

Award for Coimbatore scientist for research on sacred groves

The Hindu  

“The breakdown of the joint family system spelt doom for Kerala’s sacred groves,” says Kannan CS Warrier, PhD. An award-winning scientist at the Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding, Coimbatore, Warrier was recently conferred the National Award of excellence for outstanding research in forestry, including conservation of endangered sacred groves in the Alappuzha district of Kerala. His classical composition …

The right way to save India’s forests
7 years, 1 month ago

The right way to save India’s forests

Live Mint  

The Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act, 2016 has raised serious concerns about the human and environmental costs of compensatory afforestation. By allocating more than Rs50,000 crore, the Act enables the forest bureaucracy to entrench its control over forests and subvert democratic forest governance established by the Forest Rights Act, 2006 and Panchayats Act, 1996. During its enactment, the Union environment, forest …

Karnataka plans eco-sensitive zones in forests
11 years, 1 month ago

Karnataka plans eco-sensitive zones in forests

The Hindu  

The State government has drawn up plans to create 32 in the forests, especially in Kodagu, Shimoga, Udupi, Dakshina Kannada, Chikmagalur and Mysore districts, for protecting both the people residing within the forests and wild animals. Jayachandra, who chaired the meeting, said that this would be tabled before the State Cabinet and then sent to the Union government for approval. …

Discover Related