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 killing spree is on at the Hokera wetland for the past 15 days with more than 20 poachers opening a barrage of shortgun fire at endangered migratory ducks and geese as they fly out at dusk to the feeding grounds. The law-enforcing authorities in this troubled state have made …
In a rare spectacle the Pheasant-tailed jacanas have started their breeding activities at the Madhavaram jheel after a period of five years. In the recent past the birds had shifted their activities to Manali jheel, located close by as the floating vegetation at Madhavaram was destroyed in mid-1993, when deepening …
Ornithologists have called upon the Government to declare the 'Great Adjutant Stork', an endangered species and make concerted efforts to increase their numbers. The large stork, "leptoptilus dubius", which once adorned the emblem of the municipal corporation of Calcutta before Independence is now on the verge of extinction.Mr. Hilloljyoti Singha …
The Ministry of Environment has decided that May and June will be set aside to 'eradicate all bull frog eggs.'' Regional environment offices, local city governments and military authorities will jointly carry out the eradication of the species on a regional basis, it added. Though killing the species can be …
The bill to ban hunting with hounds was effectively killed off yesterday,amid protests that Tony Blair,prime minister,had turned his back on anti-hunt campaigners.
Sixteen years after notifying an 81 bigha woodland near Narendrapur, a bird sanctuary, the West Bengal forest department has published a proclamation inviting claims for compensation so that the land can be finally acquired. The notification was published last week in vernacular dailies granting two months for claims to be …
The World Wide Fund for Nature, India has announced its new package for the farmers living in the vicinity of tiger reserves in the country. Addressing a press conference senior WWF officials said under the new scheme a specific amount of money would be kept with various non-governmental organisations who …
jasbir kaur, 23, died at a private nursing home in west Delhi on February 3, after childbirth due to severe bleeding. The doctor who treated her said that timely blood supply could have saved her. "We had to wait for nine days for a transfusion," said Mam Chand, brother of …
A failed attempt to save the cedars underscores the state of endangered species protection in Canada. While the government has assembled a list of 291 species of animals, birds, insects and plants that are endangered, it has not so far passed legislation that protects them. Environmentalists say that Canada's lack …
For the first time in Mars exploration, a spacecraft has captured the full evolution of a Martian dust storm. NASA's Mars Global Surveyor mission also has returned new insights into the deeply layered terrain and mineral composition of the Martian surface, and to highly magnetized crustal features that provide important …
The Minister of State for Bangalore Development, Mr. Anant Nag, told the Legislative Council today that Cauvery water would be supplied to areas on Chord Road, in Basaveswaranagar, Rajajinagar and Nandini Layout and other localities in the western and northern parts of Bangalore, which were being provided water from the …
To meet the increasing demands of power in the country and tap the estimated 10,000 MW of untapped hydel power, the Union Ministry for Power has chalked out a new hydel power project to be executed in the States of Sikkim, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh.
The Union Ministry of Surface Transport is contemplating to make it mandatory for private vehicles including two wheelers to possess fitness certificates after every few years. Fitness certificates is a statutory requirement for commercial vehicles including buses, taxis and auto-rickshaws.
Four months have elapsed since pug marks were collected by tiger enumerators. The country-wide results have not yet been disclosed. The delay has led to verbal duels between NGOs and tiger authorities. And as political parties grapple to form a government, the politics of the Indian tiger is also gathering …
home of white winged wood duck: The Nameri wild life sanctuary which has been declared as the third national park in Assam is the home of rare white winged wood duck. The upgradation of the Nameri to national park has improved the status of the evergreen forest and become a …
A team of the Wild Life Conservation Society (WLCS) led by M K Shivabhadrasinhji, a birds' expert, recently visited inland and coastal wetlands in this region as a part of the Asian waterfowl census 1998. The society stated that the International waterfowl Research Bureau, London carries out the world-wide census …
A first-of-its kind census conducted in the wetlands and birds sanctuaries in Tiruvarur, Thanjavur and Perambalur districts by the Forest department and students and environmentalists from various colleges has revealed a high diversity among the birds which congregate. According to Mr. Shekhar Kumar Niraj, Wildlife Warden and District Forest Officer, …
The demand for drinking water in cities and the lack of new water sources have spurred water conservation and recycling measures over the last 30 years. Need, coupled with advances in water treatment technology, is motivating a small but growing number of cities to use reclaimed waste water to supplement …
A growing number of Albino animals in Shennongjia nature reserve in central China has got zoologists puzzled about the cause. People have reported seeing bears, snakes and river deer with white skin or fur in the dense forests of the reserve.
The Goa government will be signing an agreement next week with ICICI securities to provide consultancy for the Rs 100 crore bond issue, while the report on privatisation of water supply is expected by the end of this month or early next month.
