Presented on National legal seminar on Environment law Dehradun

1. SAVE
TREES
PRESENTER: Vedant Gupta
Government Mohindra law
college
Patiala
Punjabi university

2.  Buddhist sutra
“ The forest is a peculiar organism of
unlimited kindness and benevolence
that makes no demands for its
sustenance and extends generously
the products of its life and activity, it
affords protection to all being.”

3. HISTORICAL ASPECT
 Resistance to
destruction of forests
spread in the hills of
Uttarakhand in1970’s
 Chipko movement
 Gopeshwar in District
Chamoli.

4. IMPORTANCE OF TREES

5. CAUSES OF
DEFORESTATION

6. PROBLEMS OF
DEFORESTATION

7. FACTS & FIGURE’S

8. FACTS AND FIGURE’S

10. THERE HAS BEEN AN INCREASE OF 5081Km
(0.64%/) FOREST AND COVER AREA IN INDIA

11. Government Initiatives
The Supreme Court of India has banned all kinds of
clear-felling in the forests of India from 1996 onwards,
which has resulted in greater protection and a
decreasing trend of deforestation.
The Biodiversity Act, 2002
primarily focused on the conservation of biological
resources by facilitating access to local communities
by
sustainable approach.
The National Environment Policy, 2006
addressed the issue of empowerment of the local
communities to avoid forests from becoming open
access in nature and degrading gradually.

12. NATIONAL GREEN
TRIBUNAL
 Established on 18th august 2010 under
the national tribunal act 2010.
 For effective and expeditious disposal
of cases relating to environmental
protection and conservation of forests
and other natural resources including
enforcement of any legal right.
 Tribunal is mandated to make and
endeavor for disposal of filling of the
applications within 6 months of the
same.

13. PERSONAL INITIATIVES
 Plant a tree.
 Go paperless.
 Recycle and buy recycled products.
 Look for certification on wood and
wood products.
 Eat vegetarian meals as often as
possible.

14. “What we are doing to the forests of the
world is but a mirror reflection of what
we are doing to ourselves and one
another.”
“MAHATMA GANDHI”

15. TAKE HOME MESSAGE
A tree is beautiful, what more, it has right to
life. Like water, the sun and the stars, it
essential.
Life on earth is inconceivable without
trees

16. THANK YOU