Cauvery Calling is the world’s largest farmer-driven ecological movement and a ground-breaking eco-restoration project. It has been named the Top Innovator in ecological conservation and restoration by Trillion Trees: India Challenge.
Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project: As per a 2018 order of the high court, there exists a 'total freeze' on the destruction of mangroves across the state and permission has to be sought from the high court each time an authority wishes to fell mangroves for any public project.
The panel will have members from PWD, DDA, Forest Dept, municipal corporations, School of Planning and Architecture, Central Public Works Dept, Delhi Urban Arts Commission and the IARI-PUSA.
The permission has been issued by the Dy Conservator of Forest (North) under Delhi Preservation of Trees Act, 1994.
A bench headed by Justice DY Chandrachud passed the order on appeal filed by Citizens for Doon, an NGO, challenging NGT order passed on Oct 6 declining to interfere in the matter.
"The problem is there is China which has fully developed its infrastructure, so tomorrow if we have to transport big trucks, machinery then it would need at least 10-metre wide roads otherwise we wouldn't be able to do it," Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said.
The hazard trees could potentially fall onto people and cars on section of State Route 180 known as Generals Highway, or they could create barriers for emergency and fire response, the Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks said on Friday.
Cyclone Tauktae made landfall in Gujarat on May 17 with gusty winds and heavy rain that damaged houses and trees.
The Arbor Day Foundation and the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation have recognised Hyderabad as 2020 Tree City of the World. The southern city is the only from India to get the recognition for its commitment to growing and maintaining the urban forest.
A thunderstorm swept through Agra causing damages to the city on May 30.
The National Research Centre on Litchi (NRCL) in Bihar's Muzaffarpur has initiated 'Buniyad Purani, Nayi Kahani' initiative.
A rare species of the Babool tree called Acacia eburnia has been found in Rajasthan after 68 years, said Dr Satish Sharma, an environmental scientist and retired Assistant Conservator of Forests.
Green space that is poorly designed and inadequately maintained can help crime take root and spread, the researchers said.
Specialist firefighters have saved the world’s last remaining wild stand of a prehistoric tree from wildfires that razed forests west of Sydney, officials said Thursday. Firefighters winched from helicopters to reach the cluster of fewer than 200 Wollemi Pines in a remote gorge in the Blue Mountains a week before a massive wildlife bore down, National Parks and Wildlife Service Director David Crust said.
Around 20 lakh trees were uprooted at the Balukhand-Konark Wildlife Sanctuary during Cyclone FANI eight months ago.
The Supreme Court has allowed for felling of trees on the condition that saplings be planted as part of the afforestation drive, under a strictly monitored process
Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday night asked not to touch any tree for building the memoria of Bal Thackeray. We will build the memorial by keeping all the trees intact," senior Sena leader and former Aurangabad MP Chandrakant Khaire told PTI.
Plants and trees may be better and cheaper options than technology to mitigate air pollution, says a new study from an Indian-origin researcher.
The Mumbai Metro said on Monday that it would honour Supreme Court's direction restraining cutting of any more trees in Aarey colony for a Metro car shed. Giving out the data, the Mumbai Metro said 2,141 trees have already been cut till date, while adding that no more trees will be cut at the contested site.
The Tree Authority of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Thursday gave its nod to cut over 2,700 trees for a Metro car shed in the leafy Aarey Colony area.
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