Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Kamal Tiwari Vs Union of India & Others dated 27/05/2025. The Principal Chief Conservator of Forest and Chief Wildlife Warden, Rajasthan stated that a high level meeting to review the progress on the demarcation of Nahargarh …
A new 2.7 km-long road is coming up right in the heart of the Jim Corbett tiger reserve. Although it traverses reserved forests, it does not have the clearance of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MEF). Uttar Pradesh government has authorised the construction of a tarred road deep …
Bureaucrats in Assam's public health engineering department are reportedly involved in diverting funds allocated for the supply of potable drinking water in the State. Assam suffers from a severe p0otable water problem. The iron content in water exceeds the tolerable limit, but the bureaucracy is yet to take the matter …
Environmentalists belonging to the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), are facing resistance from the local people in Mandleshwar (Khargone) towards a NBA sponsored public meeting to be held in Bhopal on April 3.People facing ouster due to the Maheshwar Hydel Project are expected to assemble on that day to discuss their …
The Corbett and the Dudhwa tiger reserves have both witnessed multiple tiger poisonings in the recent months, according to the latest newsletter of Tigerlink, a linkage of the people and organisations across the globe to save the tiger.
A meeting was held to discuss the ways to curb the illgal trade on wildlife and poaching of wild animals at the Guwahati Planetarium on March 23. This was the first orientation cum network-meeting in the North-East India supported by TRAFFIC-India.
A practising doctor at Dharmapuri, who reportedly accompanied forest brigand Veerapan in poaching activities in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka forests has been arrested. The Chief Conservator of Forests, Salem, Mr. P. L. Ananthasamy, said today that Dr. Vaiyapuri was nabbed when he was engaged in poaching of elephants in the …
In about 50 years time, when global oil supplies begin to run dry and the search for alternative sources of energy becomes acute, the research being done at an institute in rural Oxfordshire could provide the ultimate solution to the world's energy needs. Scientists at Joint European Torus (JET) are …
Reversing a legacy of trapping, hunting and poisoning that eradicated from the wild the gray wolf, Federal biologists announced that they had released nearly a dozen wolves from chain-link pens into the remote ponderosa forests and meadows in the White Mountains of eastern Arizona. The return of the Mexican gray …
Ridley tutles return for nesting on Orissa coast: Amidst death and decay along the coast of Orissa, life has been taking form on the beaches of Rushikulya. The arribada, otherwise known as mass nesting, of Olive Ridley Turtles took place here between March 22 to 24.
the Bastar forest scam in Madhya Pradesh (mp) , involving forest encroachment and felling of trees with officials' tacit support, has taken a new turn with the arrest of a social activist who was closely associated with the investigations. The activist, Ratneshwarnath , was part of the team that prepared …
A large number of Van Gujjar men and women today expressed dismay over the misuse of funds to spread misery among forest dwelling communities and charged the proposed Rajaji National Park authorities with abetting poaching and timber smuggling. Participating in a panchayat held on the periphery of the proposed Park, …
Mr. Rajat Bhargava, the young aviculturist who made news recently with his claim of rediscovering the Rothschild parakeet, the world's rarest parrot, wants the species to be listed under schedule one of the Indian Wildlife Protection Act (WPA) to ensure its survival.
Sri Lanka plans to import elephants from Thailand to augment the rapidly dwindling population of domesticated animals, a senior wildlife official said on Sunday.
The project of converting a part of Asola reserve forest into a bear sanctuary announced with much fanfare by the Lieutenant Governor, Mr Tejendra Khanna, in his speech on the opening day of the Delhi Assembly session has not found favour with the environmental non-governmental organisation.
When forest guards patrolling the vast Dudhwa National Park, in Central India, spot a carcass, they quickly alert the authorities to get it removed. The dead animals, mostly cattle are hauled out of the park before poachers get a chance to poison to kill - one of their favourite ways …
Breaking down on the floor of the Delhi Assembly, a ruling party MLA threatned to fast unto death, while another BJP MLA said he will cut off the hands of any official who tried to stop him from laying illegal waterlines and yet another colleague of their's warned of a …
More environmentalists feel that a sanctuary or forest area should not be used for releasing domesticated animals. Reacting to the green signal by the Delhi Government for the bear sanctuary project in Asola forest, environment activists termed the move scientifically wrong. Many felt that the bear proposal was flawed and …
The 803-km long rare padyatra of a Gurgaon-based business-executive, Ravinder Singh, 36, against curelty to animals has evoked remarkable response. beginning from Amritsar on March 4, Ravinder has so far covered 25 districts of Punjab and Haryana, along NH-2. He is due to conclude the padyatra on Baisakhi eve (April …
An international team of NASA and university researchers has found the first direct evidence of a phenomenon predicted 80 years ago using Einstein's theory of general relativity - that the Earth is dragging space and time around itself as it rotates.
Pharmaceutical major Ranbaxy has in a statement today stressed that it has in no way violated the law of the land in importing 50 Beagle dogs for research-related drug-testing at its laboratories in Okhla. The Beagles have over the last one week attracted the attention of animal-rights activists who, through …
