Environment Ministry rejects 9 projects in India
It's a ministry, which is taking its role as a watchdog and
protector of India
Of 25 projects submitted to the Standing Committee of the
National Board of Wildlife for approval, nine have been rejected outright. If
these projects had been cleared it would have sliced open the habitat of the
tiger, the red panda and the Indian gharial.
The Ministry has given a firm no to 125 hectares of
forestland in a wildlife sanctuary in Himachal, 85 hectares of forest that
connects two crucial tiger habitats in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh (MP), 840
hectares of forest land for a coal project in MP……………….
Q&A: India 's
Climate Chief on Making India
By NILANJANA BHOWMICK Thursday,
Oct. 14, 2010
When climate change negotiations ended on Saturday in Tianjin , China China U.S. and China
continued to lock horns on an emissions target, with the U.S. deputy special envoy for climate change
hinting that the U.S.
THURSDAY 14 OCTOBER 2010
The first draft of the Green India Mission under National
Action Plan for Climate Change was released on 24th May, 2010 by the Ministry
of Environment and Forests (MoEF). Public consultations on this draft were held
in 7 cities across the country starting with Guwahati on 11th June ending on
5th July in Mysore
The main objectives of the mission are i:
The main objectives of the mission are i:
Doubling the area to be taken up for afforestation
/eco-restoration in India
Increasing the GHG removals by India ’s
forests to 6.35% of India ’s
annual total GHG emissions by the year 2020 (an increase of 1.5% over what it
would be in the absence of the Mission
Enhancing the resilience of forests/ecosystems being treated
under the Mission
In the third public consultation held at Pune on 19th June,
2010 the MoEF minister Mr Jairam Ramesh said “We seek to bring about a change
in the relationship between the people and the forest department. We will ………………………………
Jairam says no to diversion of forest land for road
Vivek DeshpandeTags : Posted: Thu Oct 14 2010, 05:36 hrsNAGPUR:
The National Board of Wild Life (NBWL) on Wednesday rejected the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) proposal to take 84 hectares of forest land out of Forest Conservation Act (FCA) provisions to facilitate unhindered construction of National Highway 6 between Nagpur and Raipur
The NBWL rejection is seen as a setback for the NHAI, which has already four-laned the road, that often trespasses into the 10-km radius of Protected Areas, thereby violating the Wildlife and Forest Conservation Acts. At places, the road comes uptil 800 metres of the Navegaon National Park
The call of the wild
Osai's wildlife exhibition is drawing in the crowds
Purple herons, darters, small blue kingfishers, pelicans…
they're all here at Osai's wildlife photo exhibition at VOC Park India
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Bharatpur tiger identified as T-7
TNN, Oct 13, 2010, 11.43pm IST
JAIPUR: The male tiger now at Keoladeo in Bharatpur is the
same one that attacked forest ranger Daulat Singh Shaktawat on August 20 on the
periphery of the Ranthambore
National Park
Forest department officials said its pictures
have been taken at the bird sanctuary with the help of trap cameras.
"After comparing the pictures with that of T-7, the tiger that attacked
Shaktawat, we have come to this conclusion," officials said.
After the attack T-7 had made its way through Bharatpur up to Beri village near ………….
After the attack T-7 had made its way through Bharatpur up to Beri village near ………….
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