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The Centre said on Monday that more than 5,600 comments have been received by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change from various stakeholders on the proposal to amend the existing Forest Conservation Act.Replying to a question ...

Emeritus Professor Nimal Gunatilleke, University of Peradeniya Natural forests provide a variety of services that include forest products of utility value, water regulation, biodiversity and soil conservation, climate amelioration and a range of socio-cultural benefits to forest-dependent people. In good governance of natural resources such as that of forests, transparency and inclusiveness in ecosystem management […]

Breaks ground for a state-of-the-art new production facility A renowned international electronics manufacturer operating in Sri Lanka since 1986, GPV Electronics celebrated a grand milestone recently when they broke ground for a new electronics factory. When finished in Q1 2023, the factory will comprise of a total of 11,300 m2 state-of-the-art production facility nearly doubling […]

Overwhelming 66% of participants agreed that climate change will be the biggest threat to Sri Lanka in the coming years Notably six out of ten people in rural Sri Lanka think that climate change will be the biggest impending risk Encouraging to know that 70% of the youth participants believe they can play the role […]

Senior Congress MP Jairam Ramesh was an influential voice at the Copenhagen and Cancun editions of the UN Climate Change Conference in 2009 and 2010. As yet another edition of the Conference of Parties (COP) gets underway in Glasgow, Ramesh spoke to DH’s Shemin Joy, charging the Narendra Modi government with diluting forest and environmental laws and rules at home while making

Russian President Vladimir Putin said it was vital to protect forests to curb climate change and that Russia would draw on its own vast forestland to meet its emissions pledges, speaking in a pre-recorded video broadcast at the COP26 climate talks on Tuesday. Putin, whose absence from the UN talks in Glasgow is seen as a setback to their chances of a breakthrough, said that

Our wider efforts on reducing emissions. what really matters is the rapid development of clean technologies with private sector investment and this transformation has become an unparalleled economic opportunity for growth and forjob creation and still we are taking similar steps today to make forest conservation not just today to make forest conservation notjust right for our planet but right for rare economies too. we know 80% of tropical deforestation is driven by the global trade in agricultu...

In its current form, the Act vests power over India’s forests more with states than with the Centre.

The proposed move of the Central Government to exempt infrastructure projects along with the international border areas from the purview of the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980

The Gauhati High Court has directed the PCCF (Principal Chief Conservator of Forests)-cum-Head of Forest Force, Assam