Interim order passed to restrain Kerala authorities from going ahead with plans The National Green Tribunal, Southern Bench on Monday restrained the authorities in Kerala from proceeding with any development and construction activities in the Periya Tiger Reserve in Thekkady, Idukki district.
After nets and firecrackers, here's another novel attempt at preventing tigers from straying into Sunderbans villages — solar lights. WWF-India has launched the project — 'Lights for Stripe' — to install solar lights along the edge of villages on the fringe areas of the tiger reserve. It has been working on the initiative since 2009 and has installed 78 lights at a cost of Rs 19.5 lakh (58 of these were co-funded by WWF-Australia and Aircel). This is the first time it is using crowd funding to raise Rs 660,000 for 20 community solar lights.
Even as conservation efforts at various levels continue to show hope for the future, the latest International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN) Red List of Birds (2013) shows that fifteen bird species
NGT Action Sought In The Matter Lucknow: Illegal sand mining is posing the biggest threat to the last of the wild and breeding ghariyals left. Found in maximum strength in National Chambal Sanctuary running across three states- UP, MP and Rajasthan, ghariyals are losing out to human interference.
BHOPAL: State government has shot off another reminder, the second in two months, to the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to take urgent measures to shift lions from Gujarat to Kuno wildlife
The head counting of the Bengal tiger s in the Shuklaphanta Wildlife Reserve has completed. The number of tiger s in the reserve is expected to be higher this year compared to the last year. The counting
Every year, about hundred animals are rescued by the Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) authorities in Mayurbhanj district. A majority of the animals are rescued from villagers, indicating rampant poaching.
Nearly 100 cameras will soon track the movement of tigers in the forest range adjoining the UP-Uttarakhand border. The state government has recently initiated the project near the Corbett Tiger Reserve
Lesser white-fronted goose, an endangered migratory bird from Scandinavia and Arctic Russia, has been recorded for the first time in the region. It was recorded at the Pong Dam wetland at Nagrota Surian
The Assam government's move to explore trimming of horns to save rhinos from poaching was opposed by an environmental activist body which said it will affect biological growth of the animal and the risk
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