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4 days, 10 hours ago

JNPA to Chowk highway to engulf 11.5k trees, 24 ha forest land

Mumbai: The proposed six-lane, access-controlled 30-km highway connecting Jawaharlal Nehru Port with the Mumbai-Pune and the Mumbai-Goa highways will require diversion of over 24 hectares of forest land and involve the felling of at least 11,500 trees. At present, vehicles leaving the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority premises require 2-3 hours to reach the arterial Golden Quadrilateral The minutes – uploaded …

Mumbai Land Port Highway Trees Forest Hectares

3 weeks, 2 days ago

'Will Hold Chief Secretaries Personally Liable' : Supreme Court Warns States/UTs Which Haven't Formed Expert Committees To Identify Forest Areas

Live Law

The Supreme Court on Tuesday came down heavily on States/Union Territories for not complying with its earlier directions to constitute expert committees for the identification of forest areas.If the non-compliant States fail to constitute the Expert Committees within one month and carry out the exercise in terms of Rule 16 of Van Rules, 2023 within. The Supreme Court on Tuesday …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Great Nicobar’s Flawed Restoration Plan: Why Tree-Planting and Reef Relocation Won’t Save Its Ecosystem

The Hindu

Published : Feb 12, 2025 09:05 IST - 29 MINS READ Trofim Lysenko was a radical plant biologist of the Soviet era. In this section, we briefly summarise the current state of knowledge of the restoration of rainforests and coral reefs in the hope that it will stimulate a reconsideration of the existing restoration proposals for Great Nicobar and help …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Great Nicobar’s Mega Project: A Costly Gamble with Forests, Biodiversity, and Indigenous Rights

The Hindu

Published : Feb 12, 2025 08:08 IST - 15 MINS READ A series of developments and new information that has come to light in recent months have raised further questions about the planned Rs.80,000 crore mega infrastructure project on Great Nicobar Island. One of the sources of new information is the minutes of a meeting held in Port Blair on …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court Bars Union & States From Reducing Forest Land Unless Compensatory Land Provided

Live Law

The Supreme Court yesterday restrained the Union and the States from taking any steps that would lead to reduction in "forest land" across the country, unless provision is made by them for compensatory land.A bench of Justices BR Gavai and K Vinod Chandran passed the order to the following effect: "Until further orders, no steps will be taken by the …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

T.N. Assembly passes Bill to amend Tamil Nadu Forest Act, 1882 to expedite process of allotting compensatory afforestation lands as reserved forests

The Hindu

The Tamil Nadu Assembly on Saturday passed a Bill to further amend the Tamil Nadu Forest Act, 1882, to expedite the process of allotting compensatory afforestation lands as reserved forests. The Bill, moved by Forest Minister K. Ponmudy, said the procedures prescribed in Section 4 to 16 of the Tamil Nadu Forest Act, 1882 for declaring any land as reserved …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Review all pleas for chopping 50+ trees in Delhi: Top court to CEC

Hindustan Times

The Supreme Court on Thursday appointed the Central Empowered Committee as the supervisory authority to review all applications for felling 50 or more trees in Delhi, recognising the critical need to preserve the city’s dwindling green cover and lamenting the failure of tree authorities to implement the Delhi Preservation of Trees Act, 1994 effectively. The top court also ordered a …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court orders tree census

The Hindu

While stating that cutting of trees will only be allowed in exceptional cases or in times of utmost necessity, the Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Tree Authority to conduct a census of the existing trees in the national capital. A Bench of Justices A.S. Oka and Augustine George Masih directed the authority to appoint the Forest Research Institute to …

Court Census Trees Cut Act Bench Tree

6 months, 1 week ago

Surge in diversion of forest land in Andhra raises concerns

New Indian Express

VISAKHAPATNAM: Despite a reported increase in forest cover in the State from 29,137 square kms in 2019 to 29,784 square kms in 2021, as stated in the India State of Forest Report, there are growing concerns about the impact of forest land diversion for non-forestry purposes on traditional forests, wildlife, and associated ecosystems. In a reply during the recent Lok …

Forest State Report Forest Land Ministry Hectares Compensatory Afforestation

7 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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8 months 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 …

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9 months, 3 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

11 months, 3 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 …

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1 year 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 …

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1 year, 1 month 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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1 year, 2 months ago

Regularisation of structures on PLPA land: HSVP sectors among 30 odd proposals pending

Hindustan Times

About 30 proposals seeking ex-post facto approval of the central government are currently pending and under process for regularisation of structures built on Punjab Land Preservation Act protected land in Faridabad. The Supreme Court in its July 2022 judgment had held that the land covered by the special orders issued under Section 4 of the PLPA has all the protection …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Community rights and forest conservation | Explained

The Hindu

The story so far: The Forest Conservation Amendment Act of 2023 has received limited attention and little discussion about its impact on forests and its inhabitants. From the colonial forest law in 1865 to the Forest Conservation Amendment Act, 2023, more than fifteen laws, Acts, and policies have been formulated interlinking forests with legal and policy frameworks. It is in …

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1 year, 6 months ago

CONTROVERSY | Will the new CEC be able to protect India’s forests?

The Hindu

The government’s controversial revamp of the Central Empowered Committee raises questions about its autonomy. The Kudremukh iron ore mines issue, the rampant and illegal iron ore mining at Bellary, the protection of the Aravalli hills, the issue of compensatory afforestation, and determining the value of the ecological services provided to forests and which further led to the creation of the …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Adding green cover or a threat? The Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, explained

Firstpost

The Lok Sabha has passed the Forest Amendment Bill-2023. Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said in Lok Sabha on Wednesday, “The primary objective of this Bill is to increase the forest area of the country to meet our goals of conservation of forests, conservation of biodiversity and the challenges posed by climate change… That is why we have decided to drop …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Odisha: State govt to create compensatory afforestation land bank

Hindustan Times

To facilitate smooth implementation of critical state and central projects requiring diversion of forests, the state government has decided to create a compensatory afforestation land bank of 10,000 hectare. A resolution of Revenue and Disaster Management department said the ‘Compensatory Afforestation Land Bank’ will be created in each district of the state by including degraded revenue forest lands. The lands …

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2 years ago

4.2% saplings planted under BMRCL’s compensatory afforestation dead near three lakes, says report

The Hindu

A recent rapid survey found that while 16.5% of saplings planted under Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited’s compensatory afforestation were water stressed, 4.2% of them seemed dead. The report, ‘Rapid survey on status of saplings planted by BMRCL under compensatory afforestation in three lakes of Bengaluru’ released by Action Aid Association also reported that garbage and plastic were thrown around …

Bmrcl Leaves Saplings Compensatory Afforestation Three Lakes

2 years ago

India’s disputed compensatory afforestation policy at odds with new IPCC report

The Hindu

Not degrading existing ecosystems in the first place will do more to lower the impact of the climate crisis than restoring ecosystems that have been destroyed – a finding that speaks to an increasingly contested policy in India that has allowed forests in one part of the country to be cut down and ‘replaced’ with those elsewhere. “We have known …

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2 years, 2 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 …

Environmental Haryana Projects Holistic Development Trees Forest Islands

2 years, 2 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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JNPA to Chowk highway to engulf 11.5k trees, 24 ha forest land

'Will Hold Chief Secretaries Personally Liable' : Supreme Court Warns States/UTs Which Haven't Formed Expert Committees To Identify Forest Areas

Great Nicobar’s Flawed Restoration Plan: Why Tree-Planting and Reef Relocation Won’t Save Its Ecosystem

Great Nicobar’s Mega Project: A Costly Gamble with Forests, Biodiversity, and Indigenous Rights

Supreme Court Bars Union & States From Reducing Forest Land Unless Compensatory Land Provided

T.N. Assembly passes Bill to amend Tamil Nadu Forest Act, 1882 to expedite process of allotting compensatory afforestation lands as reserved forests

Review all pleas for chopping 50+ trees in Delhi: Top court to CEC

Supreme Court orders tree census

Surge in diversion of forest land in Andhra raises concerns

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

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

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

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

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

Regularisation of structures on PLPA land: HSVP sectors among 30 odd proposals pending

Community rights and forest conservation | Explained

CONTROVERSY | Will the new CEC be able to protect India’s forests?

Adding green cover or a threat? The Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, explained

Odisha: State govt to create compensatory afforestation land bank

4.2% saplings planted under BMRCL’s compensatory afforestation dead near three lakes, says report

India’s disputed compensatory afforestation policy at odds with new IPCC report

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

Proposed infrastructure project in Great Nicobar Island a mega folly