Haryana has taken the extraordinary step of defining what constitutes a “dictionary meaning” of forest, 18 months after the Supreme Court ordered states to identify forests using that very phrase’s ...

Gurgaon: Months after the Supreme Court ordered all states and Union territories to define "forest" and map all such areas, not a single survey has been carried out as part of the exercise in Haryana ...

The Haryana government’s decision to go by the ‘dictionary meaning’ of forests has thrown open the doors to wide-ranging debates. On March 4, the Supreme Court directed all states and union ...

The Haryana Government’s recent attempt to define “forests” has sparked debate from environmentalists, legal experts and citizens, who say the move appears easing land use for real estate projects ...

Gurgaon: Most of the Aravalis that aren't already protected in Gurgaon and Faridabad – nearly 14,000 acres, the size equivalent of around 8,000 football fields – will not qualify as ‘forest', going by ...

On Nov. 30, the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management and the Rhode Island Forest Conservation Commission hosted a virtual meeting to collect public comments on a draft definition of the ...