Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 16, 2024)

Down To Earth brings you top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts & National Green Tribunal  

Ghana’s forests are being wiped out: What’s behind this and why attempts to stop it aren’t working

In 2022, Ghana had the highest relative increase in primary forest loss among all tropical countries

Madagascar’s ancient baobab forests are being restored by communities — with a little help from AI

Deforestation driven by slash-and-burn agriculture and vanishing of large-bodied animals that would spread the boabab seeds major reasons for decline

Climatisation caused by commercialisation has reduced forest governance to carbon sinks

State regulation and community-led initiatives could offer better pathways for effective forest governance, the report at UN Forum on Forests suggests

Severe environmental harm equal to genocide, crime against humanity: Experts write to International Criminal Court

Human activities leading to severe environmental harm also violate human rights; must be punished, they urge in joint statement

Simply Put: Cleaning the air

Simply Put: The Earth goes bald

Simply Put: Missing the woods

Simply put: Road to development

Simply Put: Aarey online-offline

Simply Put: Perseverance vs preservation

Simply Put: Deforestation due to coal

Simple Put: The green activist vs the greed activist

Simply Put: The shrinking umbrella

Kenya gets tree-planting holiday to plant 100 million seedlings

Kenya has plans to plant 15 billion trees in 10 years

Simply Put: What would Noah do today

World's largest eagle unable to feed its young due to deforestation

Unlike other eagles, Harpy eagles cannot effectively hunt in a non-forest environment

Paper forests: India’s missing stretches of green

The most bad news is what the biennial forest survey report leaves unsaid

This new tool can drive India’s eco-restoration initiatives; here’s how

The tool helps the user in identifying species that match their restoration objectives

Simply Put: Making way for parliament

Biennial Forest Survey Report: What does State of India’s Forest 2021 tell us

Statistic of the decade: The massive deforestation of the Amazon

8.4 million soccer fields of land deforested in the Amazon over the past decade

Halt deforestation by 2030: Are we on track to meet global pledge?

Brazil was the world’s largest contributor to deforestation in 2021

Forests are vital to protect the climate, yet the world is falling far behind its targets

Global climate targets, sustainable development goals and forest commitments depend on each other

Ireland has lost almost all of its native forests — here’s how to bring them back

Around 80% of the island of Ireland was once green