Forest Advisory Committee gets earnest about implementing forest diversion rules, finally

Clarifies that forest diversions will be allowed only if forest rights of affected people are settled and their consent obtained

Defence projects, border roads will not require green nod from Centre: Javadekar

Activists say this will aggravate environmental problems, especially since borders in Himalayan states are ecologically fragile

Defence projects, roads on border will not require green nod from Centre: Javadekar

Activists say this will aggravate environmental problems, especially since borders in Himalayan states are ecologically fragile

Karnataka cancels leases of two mini hydel projects in Western Ghats

Developer Maruthi Power Gen had fudged facts to show one project as two to circumvent clearances from Centre

India bans use of dolphins for commercial entertainment

Environment ministry says dolphins are ‘non-human persons’; morally unacceptable to capture them for entertainment

‘Clean Ganga and Yamuna mission a failure’

Parliamentary panel says that not involving people living on the banks of the river is the reason for it

MoEF extends deadline for states to declare eco-sensitive zones around wildlife parks and sanctuaries

It is the last opportunity for states, warns ministry official

Supreme Court stalls Centre’s plan to reintroduce cheetahs in India

Project to bring African cheetahs in Kuno-Palpur sanctuary was initiated in 2010

Rajasthan drafts its own wildlife tourism guidelines

Allows tourism in core tiger habitats and areas in reserves from where villages were uprooted

Green tribunal suspends environment clearance of Scania sponge iron plant in Raigarh

Environment ministry granted clearance even though mandatory public consultations were not held

Centre dilutes eco-tourism guidelines

Presents the new guidelines in Supreme Court; next hearing on October 3

Ban on construction work at Maheshwar dam lifted

This despite Jairam Ramesh himself accepted rehabilitation was slow

Gir lions get a second home

Supreme Court orders shifting of some lions to Madhya Pradesh's Kuno-Palpur sanctuary to protect their gene pool

Environment ministry backtracks on ban on tiger tourism

Will file an affidavit in Supreme Court, seeking review of guidelines that call for phasing out tourism from core tiger habitats

Forestry, the Mexican way

Environment ministry approves mining near Vaishno Devi shrine

Trikuta wildlife sanctuary to be denotified

New eco-tourism guidelines likely to favour tourism industry

MoEF panel recommends opening up to 20 per cent of core tiger habitats in reserves for tourism; earlier guidelines proposed only community-based …

Kaziranga’s no-development zone has 90 factories

Green tribunal orders closure of all industries that began operations after the zone was notified in 1996; others to use clean fuel

How well are funds spent on sanctuaries and zoos

Central Information Commission wants a impact assessment report by November

Rs 13,000 crore to be spent on green India mission in next 5 years

Parliamentary Committee on Estimates pulls up Centre for failing to increase forest cover in the country

Delegates attending biodiversity meet swing to Bollywood tunes

Negotiations progress smoothly

FRA guidelines to help forest dwellers freely trade in minor forest produce

Tribals and forest dwellers don’t need to obtain transit passes to cart away the produce; minimum support price scheme for MFPs to be in …

Radio collars for elephants in forests along rail tracks

Environment ministry wants to tag jumbos to track their movements and avert rail accidents

Environment ministry’s desperate attempts to suppress expert panel report on Western Ghats

Defies Information Commission’s order and obtains stay from Delhi High Court to keep the report out of public domain

Did Welspun fudge facts for its coal-fired power plant in Mirzapur?

Project will destroy forestland and wildlife, say non-profits; Centre's decision on environment clearance yet to be made public