<p>Order of the Supreme Court in the matter of M K Ranjitsinh & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 21/03/2024. The matter related to protection of Great Indian Bustard (GIB) and Lesser Florican.</p>
A federal judge last week blocked a sonar research project on gray whales that environmental groups charged would have have disoriented the giant mammals as they migrated along the California coast.
The President has given his assent to the Wildlife (Protection Amendment) Bill, 2002, seeking to constitute a National Board for Wildlife to be headed by the Prime Minister and making violation of
Visiting Iranian President Khatami is in for a surprise request from Indian scientists when he visits Hyderabad on Tuesday. Indian scientists from the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology
The outcry of environmentalists against the wanton massacre of the endangered Olive Ridley turtles on the Orissa coast seems to have fallen on deaf ears with fresh reports of mass turtle casualties
Even though the intense chill has subsided in Delhi, the tender respiratory tracts of birds continue to be affected by the cold weather. About 300 birds at the Charity Birds Hospital in Chandni Chowk
Wildlife guards traded gunfire with a group of suspected poachers in the famous Jim Corbet National Park, Uttaranchal, in an areas where five elephants were killed two years ago for ivory, official
The government is all set to strengthen the Anti-Poaching Unit (APU) at the Royal Chitwan National Park, which was blamed for alarming incidents of poaching in the last eight months.According to the
There has been a lot of rhetoric and hype about eco-tourism. In his budget speech a couple of years ago the Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar even made allocations for development and promotion of
Japan's only Chinese giant panda, Ling Ling, headed for Mexico for a third attempt to impregnate three females of the popular but endangered species. The middle-aged Ling Ling, now 17, was sent home
The Delhi City Government's Wildlife Department has no plans to catch the stray monkeys roaming across the Capital, as there is no shelter to keep them. The department has only one shelter for the
