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Introduced in March 29th, 2023, the Forest Conservation Amendment Bill, 2023 has proposed the following changes: (i) exempts certain categories of land from its purview (ii) expands the gamut of activities that can be carried out on forest land A Joint Committee of Parliament has reviewed the Bill before it was introduced in the Parliament.
2 August – Rajya Sabha passes the Forest Conservation Act Amendment Bill, which allows diversion of forest land for security and strategic purposes, amid an opposition walk-out over the ongoing violence in Manipur. [42]
In the new 2022 Forest Conservation Rules, [23] the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) introduced an amendment to the Forest Conservation Act of 1980 [24] which violates the Forest Rights Act of 2006. This amendment transferred the rights of forests from tribal communities to large corporations such as private mining ...
A coalition of five conservation organizations have sued the U.S. Forest Service, alleging the 2023 management plan for the Nantahala-Pisgah national forests failed to protect the biologically ...
On 18 October 2010, Justice Lokeshwar Singh Panta [10] became its first Chairman and currently Justice Prakash Shrivastava has been appointed as Chairperson of National Green Tribunal (NGT) on 21 August 2023. [11] Retired justice Adarsh Kumar Goel is the former chairman of the tribunal from 6 July 2018 to 6 July 2023. [12]
Even though the forests are cut down, this process of Compensatory Afforestation ensures that the forest is still put into good use. [2] Compensatory afforestation is also a means of creating non-forest land-use replacements. Non-forest purposes include the activities, for example, cultivation or redevelopment in an area that had forests ...
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The 40 Acre Conservation League acquired more than 650 acres of Sierra forest land in the Emigrant Gap area of Placer County in August, using a $3 million award from a pair of conservation groups ...