The Supreme Court on Thursday (September 4, 2025) pointed to repeated flash floods and huge numbers of logs of illegally felled Himalayan trees flowing in swollen rivers, saying “if this goes on, we will be left with no forests”.
The court on Thursday voiced a deep anguish about floods in the States of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab, and highlighted that media visuals of huge numbers of logs flowing in flood waters indicate that illegal felling of the ecologically sensitive Himalayan forests was going on amidst the chaos and deaths caused by repeated natural disasters.
