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• Govt for tourism in up to 20% core area

  The Centre on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to allow regulated, low-impact tourist activities in up to 20 per cent of the core/critical tiger habitat in the country as part of the exercise to promote tourism. In the fresh guidelines formulated for states following the top court’s interim ban imposed on July 24 on all tourist activities in the core areas of areas of tiger reserves, the government also said that to protect the tiger population, no new tourism infrastructure should be created.

  • 27/09/2012

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
  • • Tiger Reserves
    • Tourism
    • Supreme Court
    • Tiger
    • Project Tiger
    • National Tiger Conservation Authority
    • Wildlife Tourism
    • Endangered Species
    • Ecotourism
    • Wildlife
• 

  Delhi, Japan ink deal to fight pollution

  NEW DELHI: The Fukuoka prefectural government, one of the provincial governments of Japan, will help the capital fight air pollution. Delhi government and the Fukuoka prefectural government signed an agreement

  • 17/01/2018

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)
  • • Delhi
    • Japan
    • Air Pollution
    • Tourism
    • Air Pollution Control
    • Environment

• AP set to project itself on world tourism map

  The tourism department has designed special package tours for delegates during the bio diversity summit, which starts from Oct 1 With about 8,000 delegates from 193 countries expected to attend the XI Conference of Parties (COP 11) and the Convention on Biological Diversity to be held in the city from October 1 to 19, the state government is all set to project Andhra Pradesh on the world tourism map. Accordingly, the state tourism department has designed special package tours for delegates including daily evening and week-end visits to historical places and heritage sites in the city.

  • 19/09/2012

  • Business Standard (New Delhi)
  • • Tourism
    • Hyderabad (T)
    • Biodiversity
    • Warangal (D)
    • Medak
    • Habitat And Urbanisation
    • Andhra Pradesh

• New tourism policy soon, says Deshpande

  '319 tourist spots will be developed providing basic facilities in the State' Minister for Higher Education and Tourism R V Deshpande said that the State government will soon announce a new tourism

  • 13/10/2014

  • Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
  • • Karnataka
    • Tourism
    • Unemployment
    • Drinking Water
    • Lifestyles
    • Chikmagalur (D)
    • Habitat And Urbanisation

• Ansari presents tourism award to Rajasthan

  JAIPUR: Vice-President M. Hamid Ansari on Wednesday handed over the National Tourism Award to Rajasthan for the best tourism-related programmes. Rajasthan Tourism Minister Beena Kak received the award at a function held at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, in the evening. The Award contains a trophy and a certificate.

  • 04/03/2010

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Habitat And Urbanisation
    • Tourism
    • Rajasthan

• Sustainability the way ahead for tourism, say experts

  Tourism is a success in Kerala as it revolves around the region’s roots — its art forms, cuisine, ethnic products, martial art forms etc., Amitabh Kant, managing director and CEO of Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, who was formerly secretary of Kerala Tourism, said. At a session on tourism at the Emerging Kerala meet on Friday, he spoke of how tourism came to the rescue of many ‘nalukettus’ (a type of traditional building), which would otherwise have been torn down and sold. “We must constantly innovate, while retaining the State’s native charm. We should also restrict construction in pristine locales.

  • 15/09/2012

  • Hindu (Thiruvananthapuram)
  • • Tourism
    • Toilets
    • Solar Energy
    • Ecology
    • Ecotourism
    • Habitat And Urbanisation
    • Kerala

• Performance of the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC): Committee on Estimates (2018-19)

  Taking note of adverse consequences of retreating of Himalayan glaciers, a Parliamentary panel has recommended the Centre to make adequate financial allocation and infrastructure available for an extensive

  • 13/12/2018

  • Lok Sabha Secretariat
  • • National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC)
    • Climate Change
    • India
    • Parliament
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  State of Environment Report for Telangana released

  To provide credible information to policy makers, organisations and the general public State of Environment Report (SoER) for Telangana, for the year 2015, was released by the Minister of State for

  • 08/01/2018

  • Hindu (Hyderabad)
  • • Telangana
    • Environment
    • Sustainable Development
    • Energy
    • Mining
    • Tourism
    • Pollution
    • Waste Management
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  Lal Singh asks people to become “Green Ambassadors”

  Minister for Forests, Ecology and Environment, Choudhary Lal Singh inspected the State Forest Research Institute (SFRI) at Sidhra and directed to identify the open areas to be developed into green spaces.

  • 05/01/2018

  • Daily Excelsior (Jammu)
  • • Environmental Security
    • Tourism
    • Wildlife
    • Forests
    • Ecology
    • Environment
• 

  Health alarm: Goa's oysters have high cadmium traces

  Traces of cadmium, a chemical found in car batteries and used in the nuclear fission processes, are showing up in edible salt-water oysters in Goa, a tourism-oriented coastal state known for its beaches

  • 19/02/2016

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)
  • • Goa
    • Hazardous Products
    • National Institute of Oceanography
    • Tourism Industry
    • Fish
    • Food Safety
    • Health

• Cleanliness index soon to rank cities

  Move expected to encourage best performers and inspire others; aim to double foreign tourist arrivals in India Close on the heels of Prime Minister Narendra Modi announcing the ambitious ‘Clean India’

  • 26/09/2014

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • India
    • Sanitation
    • Tourism
    • Ministry of Tourism
    • Urban Sanitation

• Jim Corbett Park guide gets wildlife award

  Jim Corbett Park guide Ramesh Suyal has won the Billy Arjan Singh Memorial Award for wildlife guide for year 2014 as part of the Sanctuary Travel Operators For Tigers Wildlife Tourism Awards. The award

  • 24/09/2014

  • Tribune (New Delhi)
  • • Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)
    • Corbett NP
    • Awards
    • Wildlife Tourism
    • Wildlife
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  Comprehensive guidelines for tiger conservation and tourism as provided under section 38O (1) (c) of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972

  <p><span id="itro1">National Tourism Conservation Authority (NTCA) notified these guidelines on 15 Oct 2012, under the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 for tourism in and around tiger reserves.</span></p>

  • 15/10/2012

  • Ministry of Environment and Forests
  • • Tiger Conservation
    • Tourism
    • Tiger Reserves
    • Tiger
    • Project Tiger
    • India
    • Wildlife Act 1972
    • Ecotourism

• Opinion divided over notifications on tiger reserves

  Certain section of population seeks relaxation of ban on tourism; specialists are against any dilution of the scheme The Tamil Nadu Government’s latest notifications on demarcation of core and buffer zones of three tiger reserves in the State may still require a fine-tuning to strike a balance among ecology protection, tribal welfare and tourism promotion, feel conservationists and wildlife experts. As the demand for relaxation of the ban on tourism becomes shriller in the reserve areas, the specialists are against any dilution of the scheme spelt out in the notifications.

  • 21/08/2012

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Tiger Reserves
    • Tourism
    • Indira Gandhi (Anamalai) SA
    • Coimbatore (D)
    • Tiruppur
    • Dindigul (D)
    • Tirunelveli (D)
    • Supreme Court
    • NGO
    • ATREE
    • Wildlife Tourism
    • Wildlife

• No need for tourism revenue to protect tigers: Forest dept

  SC ban hasn’t affected conservation The theory that a ban on tiger tourism will affect the conservation of the critically endangered big cat was rubbished by the State Forest department, which claimed that it was able to initiate protective measures without funds from tourism. The Supreme Court’s interim order to ban tiger tourism in the last week of July created a flutter. Several wildlife enthusiasts and resort owners predicted almost “the beginning of the end of tiger conservation” in the country. Many of them claimed they supported conservation by sharing their revenue which will add to funds for conservation.

  • 21/08/2012

  • Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
  • • Tiger
    • Wildlife Tourism
    • Endangered Species
    • Supreme Court
    • Project Tiger
    • Tiger Conservation
    • Tiger Reserves
    • Ecotourism
    • Wildlife
    • Karnataka

• Needed: Body to promote beach tourism

  PURI: A corporation for preservation of environment in adherence to CRZ norms for sustained beach tourism development, comprising all the beach settlements of the State, needs to be formed, felt experts

  • 19/01/2012

  • New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
  • • State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)
    • Tourism
    • Orissa (Odisha)
    • Sanitation
    • Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
    • Environment
    • Puri (T)
    • Coastal Regulations

• Malawi economic monitor: doing more with less- improving service delivery in energy

  The pandemic has induced a sharp recession in many countries across the globe. The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic has caused an unprecedented shock to the global economy and led to an expected overall

  • 14/12/2020

  • The World Bank
  • • Economy
    • Malawi
    • Africa
    • Energy
    • Economic Development
    • Coronavirus
    • GDP
    • Water Supply

• Groundswell Africa: deep dive into internal climate migration in Uganda

  Uganda is a diverse and verdant country. From the tall volcanic mountains along the eastern and western borders to the densely forested wetlands of the Albert Nile River and the rainforests in the center

  • 09/12/2021

  • The World Bank
  • • Climate Change
    • Migration
    • Displacement
    • Uganda
    • Africa

• In tiger reserves, tourists are not the core issue

  In an order that will have far reaching consequences, the Supreme Court imposed a blanket ban on tourism in the core areas of tiger reserves with immediate effect on July 24. The order is up for review within three weeks, but the stage has been set for a period of considerable turmoil in matters related to wildlife tourism, particularly that where the tiger is involved. There has been wide coverage of the development in the print and electronic media and the virtual world too has come alive with opinions, claims, allegations and counter allegations.

  • 02/08/2012

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Tiger Reserves
    • Supreme Court
    • Tourism
    • Wildlife Tourism
    • Tourism Industry
    • Forest Conservation
    • Forest Rights Act 2006
    • Tamil Nadu
    • Economy
    • Wildlife

• Gangtok selected for mega tourism projects

  The Union Tourism Ministry has selected Gangtok among 16 cities to be developed under the Ministry's latest scheme of mega tourism projects for destination and circuit development in the country. Sikkim Tourism department officials said here today that the state capital was given the distinction of being the only city in the Northeastern region owing to its excellent performance in the tourism sector so far.

  • 14/02/2008

  • Sentinel (Guwahati)
  • • Tourism