In a relief for landowners, top court criticised HC for bypassing precedent in allowing Maharashtra to categorise plots across Mumbai as 'private forests' & assume control of them.
The Ridge was ‘declared’ as a Reserved Forest back in 1913 by the British, and again in 1994 by the Delhi forest dept. The 2025 declaration by CM Rekha Gupta is just the latest.
With 72.74 million hectares of forest area, India now accounts for approximately 2% of the world's forests, according to UN's Global Forest Resources Assessment (GFRA) 2025.
The India State of Forest Report 2023, released Saturday, said that the country's total forest cover increased from 7,13,789 sq km in 2021 to 7,15,343 sq km in 2023, covering 21.76 per cent of its geographical area.
A forest’s CO2 sink recovers slowly, with the burnt area continuing to release CO2 for several years after wildfires die. This exceeds the amount of CO2 produced from the fire itself.
According to Government claims Delhi has 20 lakh trees and its tree covered area is 300 sq. km -the largest among all metropolitan cities in the country.
Instead of protecting the leopards, hyenas, civets, jackals, nilgai, and other animals, Delhi forest officials are crossing swords with bootleggers. Except, they are doing it with batons and sticks.
Samir Bordoloi’s Assam food forest has brought the elephants back to the jungle by planting bamboo trees. They no longer trample the village rice fields.
The new law will require no federal government clearance for some green areas to be used for eco-tourism facilities, such as building government-owned zoos.
Coal-based power generation fell 3% in 2025 while renewable capacity surged to 40% of India’s installed power mix, according to India Power Sector Review 2025 by CREA.
Pakistan military said it has assured Bangladesh of fast-tracked delivery of Super Mushshak trainer aircraft during high level defence meet held Tuesday.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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