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 …
Bushfires have destroyed vast tracts of grassland in Kenya's biggest national park and threatens the lives of thousands of elephants, says conservationists. The first fires broke out in Tsavo East towards the end of last month.
The Ministry of Finance in China has decided to offer Deqin County, home of the Yunnan snub nosed monkey, an additional 3 million yuan each year to protect these endangered monkeys with human-like faces.
Nature lovers got together in Jaipur the other day to give a serious thought on how to market conservation. Without getting into the usual debate of how desirable it is to promote tourism in wildlife sanctuaries, the participants seemingly went by the consensus that ways and means should be found …
At the turn of the century, there were an estimated 60,000 right whales worldwide, but since the animals-were prized for having the thickest blubber of the big whales, they were targeted by whalers. Now, scientists are calling what is happening in Peninsula Valdes, Argentina as one of the most important …
Animal liberationists and the State Government have been blamed for causing the virtual extinction of the last viable wild population of the eastern barred bandicoot, one of Australia's most endangered animals. The bandicoots living in a predator-proof section of the Woodlands Historic Reserve north of Melbourne have declined from 600 …
With the arrest of three person, Rajasthan Police claimed to have unearthed an ivory smuggling racket in Jaipur seizing semi-finished and finished ivory worth Rs 10 crores in the international market.
Efforts to save tigers in the wild in Nepal are under a cloud with the disappearance of a tigress and the death of at least two cubs in a national park covered by a Norwegian-funded research project. Norwegian researchers who radio-collared the tigress, Khaura Pothi, in the Royal Bardia Reserve …
Concern was expressed in the Rajasthan Assembly over the dwindling number of wild Siberian cranes visiting the Keoladeo Ghana National park near Bharatpur. This was seen as a setback to the attempts to reintroduce artificially bred Siberian Cranes among the wild flock visiting the park, the house was told. Of …
Two female calves cloned from cells taken from an adult cow died shortly after they were born at a local livestock research centre in north-western Japan, a researcher said on Friday.
The Government has increased the outlay for tiger preservation from Rs 8.05 crore in 1997-98 to Rs 17 crore in 1998-99. The amount is to be spent through Project Tiger. The project aims at creating conditions for survival of tigers, particularly in 23 tiger reserves in the country.In addition, Project …
scientists in Canada after analysing soils eaten by people in China, Zimbabwe and the us have concluded that eating soils have their own advantages. Susan Aufreiter of the University of Toronto and William Mahaney of York University, also in Toronto, used a technique called instrumental neutron activation analysis to get …
a report recently published by the Scottish Natural Heritage ( snh) , a government conservation organisation, natural bonsai in Scotland may be lost forever. However, conservationists are campaigning to bring back the stunted trees that once used to cloak the Scottish Highlands. This montane scrub, which grows between forested foothills …
it is business as usual for timber traders of the Northeast despite the Supreme Court's ( sc 's) interim ban dated December 17, 1996, on felling and movement of timber. Their business flourishes under the guise of developmental work by the government, which is exempted from the ban. A prime …
The civil war in Sri Lanka has taken its toll on the environment also. Millions of palmyrah trees have been destroyed in Sri Lanka's war-shattered northern province. Government officials say that about 2.5 million palmyrah trees have been felled by the army and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, mainly …
A tornado in Bangladesh killed at least 25 people and injured about 5,000 people on October 12. The tornado that lasted for about 30 minutes blew away tin roofs, trees and electricity poles near Tongi, an industrial town near the capital Dhaka. Most of the people died from being hit …
A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University in the us have abandoned plans to use dummy pills in an experiment on Ethiopian women who are pregnant and infected with the aids virus. The use of the dummy pills as a placebo has renewed the intense debate over the ethics …
ABOUT 2.21 tonnes of beef which was imported to South Korea will be sent back to the US after a strain of bacterium was detected in the meat. Chang Soo Hyang, a spokesperson for Korea's ministry of Agriculture and fishery said that the listeria bacteria was detected in the beef …
RUSSIA will cut its vast stockpiles of enriched uranium and plutonium and convert three plutonium-producing military reactors to civilian use by the year 2000. The Russian President, Boris Yeltsin, in a letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency, promised to remove 50 tonnes of plutonium and 500 tonnes of highly …
a major demonstration was held in the second week of October in Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka. The rallyists were protesting against mega development projects and tourism, which are hurting the ecologically sensitive area. The rally was led by members of the Uttara Kannada Parisara Sanrakshana Samiti and Medha Patkar of …
Is it not ironical that the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), where two rival armies from North and South Korea snarl at each other, endangered migratory birds stop in for a peaceful rest? The 242 km long strap of land has become Asia's most hospitable homes for rare plants and animals. The …
