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SC seeks compensatory afforestation compliance in Delhi
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 …

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Wildlife nods spiked in 2023; Nicobar plan to cost over ₹81K crore
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position that could be significant against the backdrop of Tribal Council of the Indian Ocean island announcing it had rescinded its permission for a controversial plan to carry out …

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

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SC moots apparatus for tree-felling compliance
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 …

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Yantai to further expand green coverage this year
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 …

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Being Custodian, It's The State Which Must First Assess If Tree-Felling Is Even Required: Supreme Court
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Being Custodian, It's The State Which Must First Assess If Tree-Felling Is Even Required: Supreme Court

Live Law  

While hearing a public interest litigation with respect to the environmental issues in the Taj Trapezium Zone, the Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed displeasure at private parties seeking permission to fell trees for industrial projects without first approaching the custodian of subject land and/or providing a concrete plan for compensatory afforestation.The Bench. While hearing a public interest litigation with respect …

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Eco-friendly mining helps drive environmental cleanup
1 year, 5 months ago

Eco-friendly mining helps drive environmental cleanup

China Daily  

Mulberries, a drought-resistant crop that can be used as fodder for livestock, are cultivated under and between the project's solar panels. The village committee contracted an afforestation project from the coal mine last year. Zeng made 8,500 yuan a month from March to December last year by working as a bulldozer driver at the project, the 39-year-old said. He has …

INTERVIEW | Ritwick Dutta: ‘Limited intervention was in the best interest of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands’
1 year, 11 months ago

INTERVIEW | Ritwick Dutta: ‘Limited intervention was in the best interest of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands’

The Hindu  

Published : Jan 12, 2023 10:30 IST Ritwick Dutta, an award-winning lawyer specialising in environmental issues, is also an activist, author, and educator. Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment, the environmental law advocacy group co-founded by him, received the Right Livelihood Award in 2021 for its “grassroots approach of empowering vulnerable communities to protect their livelihoods and claim their right …

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Proposed infrastructure project in Great Nicobar Island a mega folly
1 year, 11 months ago

Proposed infrastructure project in Great Nicobar Island a mega folly

The Hindu  

Published : Jan 12, 2023 10:30 IST In a series of developments that have unfolded with uncharacteristic speed and coordination over the past two years, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has cleared the decks for a mega infrastructure project in Great Nicobar Island situated at the southern tip of the Andaman and Nicobar Island group in the …

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Great Nicobar project gets in-principle clearance for diversion of 130 sq km of forest
2 years, 1 month ago

Great Nicobar project gets in-principle clearance for diversion of 130 sq km of forest

The Hindu  

The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has granted an in-principle clearance for the diversion of 130.75 sq km of forest in Great Nicobar Island for the mega ₹72,000-crore project that includes a transshipment port, an airport, a power plant and a greenfield township. This is doubly significant because these are primary evergreen tropical forests with high biological …

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Changes in conservation rules ease development projects on forest land
2 years, 1 month ago

Changes in conservation rules ease development projects on forest land

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 03, 2022 10:25 IST Every time forest land was diverted for a development project, industries were required to identify an equal area of non-forest land for afforestation. This requirement changed on June 28, when the Union government notified new Forest Rules, 2022, that allow the exchange of private and deemed forests for compensatory afforestation. Compensatory afforestation Under …

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Over 2,000 trees may make way for Bengaluru metro on ORR
3 years ago

Over 2,000 trees may make way for Bengaluru metro on ORR

The Hindu  

Over 2,000 trees are likely to make way for the Namma Metro project on Outer Ring Road. The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd., which has already begun construction for the project, had received ‘permission’ from the offices of Deputy Conservator of Forest of BBMP and Bengaluru Urban District to remove 2,037 trees. The BMRCL had approached the tree officers for …

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Telangana to Use Drones For Afforestation in All 33 Districts Under ‘Hara Bhara’ Project
3 years, 3 months ago

Telangana to Use Drones For Afforestation in All 33 Districts Under ‘Hara Bhara’ Project

News 18  

The Telangana government has partnered with Marut Drones, a Hyderabad-based drone technology startup, to launch a drone-based afforestation project, named ‘Hara Bhara’. This is a first-of-its-kind initiative where the state government will be planting 50 lakh trees across 12,000 hectares of land in forests in all the 33 districts of Telangana. The drones will be used to disperse seed balls …

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Afforestation program expands shelterbelts in Shanxi
3 years, 10 months ago

Afforestation program expands shelterbelts in Shanxi

China Daily  

A forest park in northern Shanxi province North China's Shanxi province invested 1.18 billion yuan in the Three-North Shelterbelt Forest Program during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, completing afforestation work across 2,099.6 square kilometers, according to an announcement from the Shanxi Forestry and Grassland Bureau on Jan 31. Shanxi has established a shelterbelt system covering the northern sandstorm area, the …

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In a first, compensatory afforestation of projects in Andaman to be done in MP
3 years, 11 months ago

In a first, compensatory afforestation of projects in Andaman to be done in MP

Hindustan Times  

In a first, carbon sinks for developments projects in Andaman and Nicobar Islands will be created over 2,000 kilometres away in Madhya Pradesh with the help of the forest department, government officials in the state and the islands said. Madhya Pradesh has about 1,000 degraded forest sites on over 40,000 hectares of land, where compensatory afforestation on behalf of Andaman …

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