<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>
Thirty years into project Tiger, the government plans to use satellite maps and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to get a pulse on the tiger. It plans to map tiger habitats countrywide, get
In China the there is month old ban on the capture and sale of wildlife
Within weeks of the capture of a rare clouded leopard in south-west China, a region from which the animal had disappeared fro half-a-century, a farmer has caught another, a media report said on
The Directorate of Project Tiger in the Ministry of Environment and Forests has introduced state-of-the art technology to develop a "Tiger Habitat and Population Evaluation System" in the country to
If pug marks are any indication, the tiger population in Andhra Pradesh has certainly gone up this year. As the two-day enumeration in the sanctuaries is due to be completed soon, forest officials
Alarmed by the sudden decline and near-disappearance of some bird species - like the common house sparrow - from the city, the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) is planning a study to find out
The first Amrita devi Bishnoi National Award for Wildlife Conservation was today conferred posthumosuly on Ganga Ram Bishnoi of Chirai village in Jodhpur by the Union Environment and Forest Minister,
A new study which shows that farmers who host fox hunts do more to protect the countryside than other farmers could prove to be a thorn in the side for a government keen to clamp down on hunting.
Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife) A.K. Gulati today said that the Centre had amended the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 and given one time opportunity to those persons who
The Bush administration believes the Endangered Species Act is broken and in need of a major overhaul. The provision for designating lands essential to the survival of a species - known as "critical
