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• Tourism sector awaiting SC verdict on wildlife sanctuaries reopen on October 1

  JAIPUR: Officials, wildlife enthusiasts and conservationists are waiting with bated breath for Thursday's Supreme Court verdict on tourism in the core of areas of wildlife sanctuaries. With just three days to go for the Ranthambore and Sariska national parks to re-open (October 1), this would chart the way for the two thriving tiger reserves in the state. The Centre on Wednesday filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court requesting that the ban on tourism in core areas of tiger reserves be lifted. In the affidavit, the Centre has outlined the revised guidelines to protect the tiger population and requested the court to permit tourism activities in 20% of the core tiger habitat.

  • 27/09/2012

  • Times Of India (Jaipur)
  • • Ranthambore NP
    • Sariska NP
    • Tiger Reserves
    • Tourism
    • Supreme Court
    • National Tiger Conservation Authority
    • Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
    • Tiger Conservation
    • Ecotourism
    • Wildlife Tourism
    • Wildlife
    • Rajasthan

• Ering advocates for wildlife conservation

  Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs Ninong Ering has called for preservation of wildlife and forest resources in Arunachal Pradesh to help develop tourism and create employment opportunities in

  • 25/09/2013

  • Sentinel (Guwahati)
  • • Arunachal
    • Wildlife
    • Tourism
    • Unemployment
    • Ecotourism
    • Sanctuaries

• Centre sanctions 19 tourism projects for J&K

  JAMMU, Dec 28: The Center has sanctioned 19 new tourist projects involving a cost of Rs 97.36 crore to the State for development and upgradation of tourist related infrastructure in the State. This was

  • 29/12/2012

  • Daily Excelsior (Jammu)
  • • Tourism
    • Government Of India (GOI)
    • Infrastructure Development
    • Jammu & Kashmir

• Climate change and tourism policy in OECD countries

  The UNEP and the OECD have a released a report titled “Climate Change and Tourism Policy in OECD Countries,” which warns that unless resource-efficient policies are developed, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions

  • 01/09/2011

  • UNEP
  • • Climate Change
    • Tourism Industry
    • Global
    • India
    • Green House Gases
    • Climate Adaptation
    • Climate Mitigation
    • Private Sector
    • International Organisation
    • Carbon Dioxide
    • Emission Targets
• 

  Greater participation of womenfolk needed for environment protection: Priya

  JAMMU:Minister of State for Education, Technical Education, Culture, Tourism, Horticulture, Floriculture and Parks, Priya Sethi today called for greater participation of civil society, especially womenfolk

  • 17/04/2017

  • Daily Excelsior (Jammu)
  • • Environmental Security
    • Forest Encroachments
    • Environmentalists
    • Ecology
    • People - Animal Conflicts
    • Environment
• 

  Shimla heritage ride: 130 cyclists to spread awareness about environment

  In an endeavour to raise awareness about the environment and promote cycling, 130 cyclists from 20 cities across India will participate in a heritage ride in the state capital. The event will start

  • 17/04/2017

  • Business Standard (New Delhi)
  • • Himachal Pradesh
    • Cycles
    • Environmental Security
    • Himalaya
    • Tourism
    • Environment

• Gujarat tourism policy to offer sops for investors

  Seeking to make Gujarat a major destination for holidayers, the state tourism policy, to be announced early next year, will be offering several incentives for investors. Apart from improving the infrastructure and amenities in the established spots around the state, the policy would aim at promoting private investments in a host of new destinations, including the coastline, Gujarat Tourism Commissioner Sanjay Kaul said.

  • 24/12/2012

  • Business Standard (New Delhi)
  • • Gujarat
    • Tourism
    • Infrastructure Development
    • Planning Commission
    • Ecotourism
    • Habitat And Urbanisation

• MoU signed to develop tourist centres in Himachal, Rajasthan and Gujarat

  State-owned India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) and Hindustan Salts Ltd (HSL) on Thursday joined hands to develop tourism centres in Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat. The memorandum of understanding (MoU), valid for three years, was signed by ITDC vice-chairman and managing director Lalit K. Panwar and Hindustan Salts Ltd chairman and managing director R.K. Tandon.

  • 21/12/2012

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Himachal Pradesh
    • Rajasthan
    • Gujarat
    • Tourism
    • Ministry of Tourism
    • Ecotourism
    • Habitat And Urbanisation
• 

  Carbon-free travel in Majuli this Bihu

  On this Rongali Bihu, visitors to Majuli will be encouraged to enjoy the beauty and cultural heritage of this river island on Brahmaputra on bicycle, in an effort to give push to promotion of carbon-free

  • 13/04/2017

  • Times Of India (Guwahati)
  • • Assam
    • Carbon Dioxide
    • Cycles
    • Ecology
    • Tourism
    • Environmental Security
    • Environment

• Cabinet endorses new state tourism policy

  The state cabinet at its meeting chaired by the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan here today endorsed the New State Tourism Policy-2010. The policy has important provisions with regard to private capital investment, PPP projects, preservation of cultural heritages, participation of different departments and institutions, eco tourism etc.

  • 13/10/2010

  • Central Chronicle (Bhopal)
  • • Indira Sagar
    • Dams
    • Madhya Pradesh
    • Tourism
    • Ecotourism
    • National Parks
    • Tourism Industry

• Mining, tourism emitting CO2,Govt needs to act: scientist

  The two important backbones of Goan economy

  • 14/08/2010

  • Herald (Panjim)
  • • Mining
    • Carbon Dioxide
    • Scientists
    • Climate Change
    • Tourism

• Namibia to prioritize wildlife protection against rise of crimes

  WINDHOEK Namibia (Xinhua) -- Namibian Minister of Environment and Tourism Pohamba Shifeta on Tuesday highlighted wildlife protection at reserves against the rise of “syndicate-based wildlife crime.”

  • 05/04/2017

  • Coast Week (Kenya)
  • • Wildlife
    • Environment Crime
    • Namibia
    • Wildlife Management
    • Africa

• Tanzania: Charcoal Consumption Likely to Double By 2030

  Morogoro — Natural Resources and Tourism Minister Jumanne Maghembe has estimated charcoal consumption to increase to 4.6 tonnes by 2030 from 2.3 tonnes in 2012 unless concerted efforts are taken to abate

  • 04/04/2017

  • All Africa
  • • Energy
    • Charcoal
    • Tanzania
    • Forests
    • Deforestation
    • Electricity
    • Africa

• Tanzania: Govt Shocked Over Increased Tuskless Elephants

  THE Ministry of Tourism and Natural Resources will in 2015/2016 fiscal year allocate funds for research aimed at finding the reasons leading to the increase of tuskless elephants in Tanzanian national

  • 29/01/2015

  • All Africa
  • • Wildlife
    • Elephant
    • Tanzania
    • Africa
    • National Parks

• Marine pollution in the Caribbean: not a minute to waste

  A New World Bank report examines how marine pollution in the Caribbean threatens the region’s resilience to climate change. The report calls for urgent actions to restore damaged ecosystems and protect

  • 30/05/2019

  • The World Bank
  • • Marine Pollution
    • Marine Ecosystems
    • Climate Change
    • Caribbean

• Don't report CRZ violations to SC: MLAs, bishops to Kerala government

  Thiruvananthapuram : In an apparent bid to protect the tourism industry, 20 legislators and five bishops, including a Catholic cardinal, have sent a petition to the Chief Minister stating that the state

  • 23/08/2013

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)
  • • Kerala
    • Tourism Industry
    • Coastal Regulations
    • Supreme Court
    • Lakes
    • Vembanad
    • Wetlands

• South Africa: Grootbos Champions South Africa's Biodiversity

  Grootbos Nature Reserve, near the Garden Route has earned international recognition for championing sustainable tourism efforts. The Western Cape reserve has been nominated for the 2015 Tourism for

  • 22/01/2015

  • All Africa
  • • Environment
    • Ecotourism
    • Awards
    • South Africa
    • Africa

• SC order not to affect tourism in Assam

  GUWAHATI: The Tour Operators’ Association of Assam has said that the Supreme Court’s order banning tourism in core areas of tiger reserves would not affect tourism in Assam. Addressing a press conference in Guwahati today, Tour Operators’ Association of Assam president Debojit Bora said, “The Supreme Court has clearly stated that tourism should be banned or regulated in core areas of tiger reserves. While this may have an effect on tourism in certain tiger habitats in the rest of the country, in Assam we need not be concerned because the jeep safari and the elephant safari routes in the national parks and tiger reserves of Assam have been well-defined.

  • 13/08/2012

  • Sentinel (Guwahati)
  • • Guwahati
    • Tourism
    • Tiger Reserves
    • Supreme Court
    • Elephant
    • National Parks
    • Wildlife Tourism
    • Ecotourism
    • Wildlife
    • Assam

• Sustainability in tourism: a rural tourism model

  The Government of India (Ministry of Tourism) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are implementing the Endogenous Tourism Project - Rural Tourism Scheme across 36 sites in the country, to set up alternative models of tourism which would serve to create sustainable livelihood opportunities among low-income communities living in rural areas (2005-2009).

  • 01/09/2008

  • Equations
  • • Ecotourism
    • Environment
    • Tourism
    • Sustainable Development
    • Infrastructure Development
    • Community Groups
    • India

• Tiger conservationist slams mainstream tourism in Sunderbans

  Tiger conservationist Belinda Wright has slammed the idea of large-scale tourism in the Sunderbans, saying "it would be a complete disaster". The Sunderbans, the world's largest mangrove forests, houses

  • 07/08/2013

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)
  • • West Bengal
    • Sundarbans
    • Ecotourism
    • Tiger
    • Tiger Reserves
    • Biodiversity
    • Tiger Conservation
    • Wildlife