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Delhi Preservation Of Trees Act | Supreme Court Stops Felling Of More Than 50 Trees Without CEC Approval, Orders Tree Census In Delhi

Live Law

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed that whenever Tree Officers grant permission to fell 50 or more trees under the Delhi Preservation of Trees Act, 1994 the permission must be approved by the CEC before it is acted upon. “We therefore direct that whenever permission is granted by the tree officer for felling of 50 or more trees in accordance …

Delhi Court Census Trees Officers Act Tree

2 weeks, 3 days ago

How India’s Green Credit Programme has Reopened Old Wounds for Adivasis in Gujarat’s Dang

The Hindu

Published : Dec 06, 2024 12:27 IST - 8 MINS READ As you leave behind the burgeoning Vansda city in the swiftly urbanising Valsad district, you cross over to The Dangs, Gujarat’s most forested region. Recently, compensatory afforestation drives, under older legislations such as the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act 2016 and the newly notified Green Credit Programme 2023, are being …

India Management States Gujarat Land Forest Plantation

2 weeks, 5 days ago

'Highways Are Of Paramount Importance For State Welfare': Meghalaya High Court Orders Expedited Construction Of Shillong-Dawki Highway

Live Law

The Meghalaya High Court on Tuesday directed the State Authorities to expedite the building of the National Highway from Shillong to Dawki near the Bangladesh border terming it of "paramount importance" for the "welfare of the state". A division bench of Chief Justice IP Mukerji and Justice W Diengdoh passed the order while hearing a Public Interest Litigation seeking the …

Highway State High Court Orders Adv Afforestation Nhidcl

3 weeks, 3 days ago

Afforestation efforts bear fruit in Taklimakan Desert

China Daily

Residents plant oleaster trees in Minfeng county, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on Thursday. According to local conditions, the region implemented scientifically sound sand control strategies and integrated resources from various areas while overcoming administrative boundaries between different counties and cities. "To suit different conditions, three main methods are employed during the process — engineering sand control, photovoltaic sand control, and …

China Control Xinjiang Desert Sand Taklimakan Taklimakan Desert

3 weeks, 3 days ago

Afforestation efforts bear fruit in Taklimakan Desert

China Daily

Residents plant oleaster trees in Minfeng county, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on Thursday. According to local conditions, the region implemented scientifically sound sand control strategies and integrated resources from various areas while overcoming administrative boundaries between different counties and cities. "To suit different conditions, three main methods are employed during the process — engineering sand control, photovoltaic sand control, and …

China Control Xinjiang Desert Sand Taklimakan Taklimakan Desert

3 weeks, 4 days ago

China is turning its largest desert into a forest: Here's how

India Today

China has achieved a significant milestone in its battle against desertification by completing a 3,046 km sand-blocking green belt around the Taklimakan Desert. This achievement, finalised on Thursday morning, is part of the world’s largest afforestation initiative aimed at combating desertification across northwest, north, and northeast China. China finished encircling the country's largest desert, the #TaklimakanDesert, with a sand-blocking green …

China Forest Desert

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Green Oasis Takes Shape in Xinjiang Desert: A Journey Through a Reborn Landscape

China Daily

Green efforts in Xinjiang have transformed the barren desert landscape into a vibrant green city. The desert corps has been instrumental in this transformation, investing in artificial afforestation and ecological restoration projects that have increased the forest coverage rate and green space in built-up areas. The result is a thriving city that attracts tourists and offers a glimpse into a …

Environment Government Law Tourism

3 months, 2 weeks ago

SC seeks compensatory afforestation compliance in Delhi

Hindustan Times

New Delhi The bench, also comprising justice Augustine George Masih, permitted CEC to send notices to these project proponents, calling upon them to submit data of compliance within three months. The Supreme Court on Friday sought the response of project proponents, including government agencies and private entities, in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh for allegedly flouting compensatory afforestation norms over tree …

Delhi Court Trees Project Three Months Project Proponents Bench

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Forest Department recommends growing of 25 indigenous plant species as part of afforestation drive

The Hindu

As part of its afforestation drive aimed at increasing green cover to more than 33% of the State’s geographical area, the Forest Department has recently recommended to the District Collectors, Municipal Commissioners and Zilla Parishad CEOs to raise trees from among a list of 25 indigenous species, and to dispense with the planting of three exotic species considered detrimental to …

Trees Species Forest Department

4 months ago

No Justification For Not Using CAMPA Funds : Supreme Court Seeks Details From States/UTs On Amounts Spent For Afforestation

Live Law

The Supreme Court directed the State Governments/Union Territories to file an affidavit, inter-alia, to chart out the reasons why the CAMPA Funds, created to use it for compensatory afforestation and allied activities, have not been utilised. “We find no justification in the State Governments/Union Territories not using the said fund for the purpose of afforestation and allied activities.,” the Court …

Court State Fund Campa Afforestation

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Wildlife nods spiked in 2023; Nicobar plan to cost over ₹81K crore

Hindustan Times

No objections were raised by the tribal communities against the Great Nicobar project during the “statutory period” for such feedback under the law, the Union government has submitted in parliament, a position that could be significant against the backdrop of Tribal Council of the Indian Ocean island announcing it had rescinded its permission for a controversial plan to carry out …

Environment Wildlife India Tribal Council Cost Project

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Public Authorities Should Take Best Efforts To Reduce Trees Required To Be Cut For Public Projects : Supreme Court

Live Law

The Supreme Court has directed that every public authority seeking permission to cut trees for public projects must make best efforts to reduce the number of trees which are required to be cut by re-examining the alignment of the public project. The bench observed in the order : "Keeping in view the spirit of Article 51A of the Constitution of …

Court Project State Public Permission Cec Justice Oka

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Over 200k trees to be felled in Chhattisgarh’s Hasdeo, 960k in Great Nicobar: Govt

Hindustan Times

Approximately 273,757 trees will be cut in Chhattisgarh’s Hasdeo Arand forests in the coming years, the Union environment ministry told informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, while also defending plans to carry out large-scale development projects in the Great Nicobar Island, where it said close to a million trees will be felled in a separate disclosure. In a response to …

Development Trees Singh Chhattisgarh Forests Parsa Hasdeo

5 months ago

SC moots apparatus for tree-felling compliance

Hindustan Times

The Supreme Court on Friday contemplated devising a mechanism that will ensure that orders for felling of trees are verified on ground and conditions for compulsory afforestation are scrupulously followed. The top court recently constituted a committee of three experts along with a team from Forest Survey of India to determine the total number of trees cut. “It is necessary …

Delhi Court Trees Forest Cec Dda Compulsory Afforestation

6 months, 1 week ago

11.5 lakh seed balls dispersed in afforestation drive in Pollachi forest range

The Hindu

Members of the National Cadet Corps and the Forest Department staff dispersed 11.5 lakh seed balls in an afforestation drive held in Pollachi forest range of the Anamalai Tiger Reserve on June 8. 5 lakh seed balls in two hours under the guidance of the Forest Department staff. With conducive weather, a mass afforestation drive was organised at Sethumadai in …

Ncc Forest Department Forest Range Pollachi Forest Lakh Seed Pollachi Forest Range

6 months, 2 weeks ago

Tree felling in Prayagraj after compensatory afforestation, UP government tells court

India Today

The Uttar Pradesh government has assured the Allahabad High Court that felling of trees for proposed road widening in Prayagraj would be done after the compensatory afforestation in July. During the course of hearing of the PIL filed by Anand Malviya and others, chief standing counsel Kunal Ravi Singh, on behalf of the state government, assured the court that felling …

Court Trees Pil Prayagraj Tree Compensatory Afforestation

6 months, 3 weeks ago

Forest Department’s afforestation plans go awry as A.P. govt. fails to release CAMPA funds in time

The Hindu

The Forest Department has not been able to implement its activities as per schedule for the last few years due to non release of funds in time by the State government. The prime reason is the non-release of the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority funds as per schedule by the State government despite the Union government releasing the …

Forest State Fund Department Funds Release Campa

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Afforestation revivifies landscape in Chishui River area

China Daily

Foresters carry saplings up a mountain in Zouma village, Taiping town, Gulin county, Sichuan province, in March 2024. This spring, employees from Sichuan Changjiang Forestation Group planted 6 million saplings of various kinds in Gulin county for water conservation and rocky desertification control in the Chishui River area in Sichuan province of Southwest China. Rocky desertification land covers 449,300 hectares …

Sichuan Province Rocky Desertification County Sichuan Chishui River Area Gulin County Chishui River

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Afforestation revivifies landscape in Chishui River area

China Daily

Foresters carry saplings up a mountain in Zouma village, Taiping town, Gulin county, Sichuan province, in March 2024. This spring, employees from Sichuan Changjiang Forestation Group planted 6 million saplings of various kinds in Gulin county for water conservation and rocky desertification control in the Chishui River area in Sichuan province of Southwest China. Rocky desertification land covers 449,300 hectares …

Sichuan Province Rocky Desertification County Sichuan Chishui River Area Gulin County Chishui River

8 months ago

What are the new Green Credit Programme rules? | Explained

The Hindu

April 21, 2024 03:54 am | Updated 02:01 pm IST The story so far: On April 12, the Environment Ministry issued further guidelines on its Green Credit Programme, two months after it had prescribed rules governing the first initiative, afforestation. Under this, individuals, organisations and companies — public and private — would be encouraged to invest in sectors ranging from …

India States Companies Forest Conservation Green Ministry Credits

8 months, 2 weeks ago

States offer up thousands of hectares of ‘degraded’ forest land for green credits

The Hindu

Weeks after the Union Environment Ministry announced the rules for its Green Credit Programme, ten States have identified parcels of degraded forest land, amounting to about 3,853 hectares, that will be available for individuals, groups, public and private sector units to earn – and potentially trade – green credits. These green credits can then be used by companies which have …

Land Green Forest Forest Land Scheme Credits Afforestation

9 months ago

Green credits scheme: Retd civil servants urge Centre to recall tree plantation notification

Hindustan Times

New Delhi, A group of retired civil servants on Tuesday requested the Centre to withdraw a notification issued under the Green Credits Programme, alleging that it would make it easy for corporates to obtain forest land for their projects, leading to an "ecological disaster" and impacting the livelihoods of millions of pastoral and semi-pastoral communities. Notified on February 22, the …

Land Green Forest Forest Land Credits Van Lands

9 months, 1 week ago

Yantai to further expand green coverage this year

China Daily

Yantai launches an afforestation project to turn the city into a greener, more eco-friendly and livable place. Yantai in East China's Shandong province plans to afforest an area of 3,538 mu and continue implementing precise management of afforestation and greening, according to an announcement by local authorities on March 12, the 46th National Tree Planting Day. In recent years, Yantai …

City Green Forest Yantai

9 months, 3 weeks ago

Greens uneasy over Green Credit rules

New Indian Express

NEW DELHI: In the recent Green Credit Rule 2024 announced by the government to promote tree plantations on natural forest land, environmentalists see another attempt to destroy natural forests. Through the rules, the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change directed the State Forest Departments to identify degraded land parcels, including open forest and scrub land, wasteland and catchment areas, …

Climate Change Land Green Rules Forest Tree Plantation Afforestation

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Delhi Preservation Of Trees Act | Supreme Court Stops Felling Of More Than 50 Trees Without CEC Approval, Orders Tree Census In Delhi

How India’s Green Credit Programme has Reopened Old Wounds for Adivasis in Gujarat’s Dang

'Highways Are Of Paramount Importance For State Welfare': Meghalaya High Court Orders Expedited Construction Of Shillong-Dawki Highway

Afforestation efforts bear fruit in Taklimakan Desert

Afforestation efforts bear fruit in Taklimakan Desert

China is turning its largest desert into a forest: Here's how

Green Oasis Takes Shape in Xinjiang Desert: A Journey Through a Reborn Landscape

SC seeks compensatory afforestation compliance in Delhi

Forest Department recommends growing of 25 indigenous plant species as part of afforestation drive

No Justification For Not Using CAMPA Funds : Supreme Court Seeks Details From States/UTs On Amounts Spent For Afforestation

Wildlife nods spiked in 2023; Nicobar plan to cost over ₹81K crore

Public Authorities Should Take Best Efforts To Reduce Trees Required To Be Cut For Public Projects : Supreme Court

Over 200k trees to be felled in Chhattisgarh’s Hasdeo, 960k in Great Nicobar: Govt

SC moots apparatus for tree-felling compliance

11.5 lakh seed balls dispersed in afforestation drive in Pollachi forest range

Tree felling in Prayagraj after compensatory afforestation, UP government tells court

Forest Department’s afforestation plans go awry as A.P. govt. fails to release CAMPA funds in time

Afforestation revivifies landscape in Chishui River area

Afforestation revivifies landscape in Chishui River area

What are the new Green Credit Programme rules? | Explained

States offer up thousands of hectares of ‘degraded’ forest land for green credits

Green credits scheme: Retd civil servants urge Centre to recall tree plantation notification

Yantai to further expand green coverage this year

Greens uneasy over Green Credit rules