Compliance report by the Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority (GCZMA) in the matter of Goa Paryavaran Savakshan Sangharsh Samitee Vs Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority & Others dated June 12, 2023. The GCZMA report was in compliance with the National Green Tribunal order, May 12, 2023, whereby GCZMA was directed …
The POSCO steel plant and port planned in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district have run into fresh trouble. An expert appraisal committee (EAC) of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests deferred its decision on clearing the port project, saying the South Korean steel giant did not furnish sufficient details. The company …
MUMBAI: For the last eight years, conservationists from across the state have been visiting coastal belts to protect turtle nesting sites and release hatchlings into the sea. Now, their fight to save the endangered reptile has got a shot in the arm with the state government deciding to join the …
Satyasundar Barik BHUBANESWAR: Will the spectacular sight of mass congregation of endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles for mating and nesting on the beaches of Gahirmatha become history? The beaches coming under the Gahirmatha Marine Wildlife Sanctuary have shrunk considerably. A 32-km-long beach has shrunk to less than one kilometre in …
Any time now female Olive Ridley turtles will start crawling on beaches in and around the city. When they do, it will be among the few times they will leave the sea to perform one of the most important activities of their lives -- laying eggs. They will then leave …
... But Are Dying Due To Neglect Parth Shastri | TNN Ahmedabad: They look cute, can even make your plastic tub its home and can walk on your hand. However, the green tortoise, also known as Singapore tortoise or Chinese tortoise because of its size, are reporting a high death …
Based on our studies in Norway and India, and the rapidly expanding scientific literature in this field, it is safe to say that human-wildlife conflicts are a universal state of affairs. This is a serious issue because it represents a long term threat to the persistence of wildlife as well …
The drivers of discord between humans and wild species often lie deeper than the shallow measuring implements of science can reach. We explore the lived experience of conflict between fishing communities and turtles in two very different socio-ecological contexts in the Lakshadweep Islands and the Orissa coast.
MARINE biologists had almost given up hope of saving the green sea turtle in the 1980s following an uptick in a tumourcausing disease among the endangered species. They thought the deadly condition might drive the largest hard-shelled sea turtle to extinction. “But that did not happen for a variety of …
AHMEDABAD: In Satellite, the occupants of a bungalow got some surprise visitors on Wednesday evening, soon after the downpour and the sudden dip in temperatures. A pair of star turtles seemed to have crawled out of their hiding place after the rain. The downpour also caused a road mishap of …
CHENNAI: A blanket exemption of roads on stilts in the draft Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) notification 2010 would not augur well for the peace and tranquility of southern Chennai residents, warned prominent citizens of Chennai on Thursday. Further, it endangered the Olive Ridley turtles as their nesting spots fell right …
International environmental NGO, Greenpeace, is in the copyright soup over its campaign to save Olive Ridley Turtles. Greenpeace is against Tata Steel’s building a port at the mouth of the Dhamra river, close to Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary in Orissa. The site is the largest of the three nesting sites of …
The Turtle Conservation Project (TCP) of Sri Lanka established in the early nineties by a group of young volunteers with the aim of conserving marine turtles is also helping a number of community based projects. With the assistance of UNDP
S M Arun | ENS HUMAN ACTIVITY HITS TURTLE NESTING SITES IN MANNAR THE drastic decline in turtle nesting sites in the Gulf of Mannar (GoM) due to various factors and complete lack of awareness among fishermen, has taken a serious turn as presently, even sporadic nesting of turtles could …
Matara Chief Magistrate Udesh Ranatunga, on Monday (20), fined two suspects Rs. 100,000, when they were produced before him for killing a turtle and selling its eggs. The Matara police told the Magistrate that the suspects, who earned a living as fishermen, had been killing turtles for meat.
- Abundant fish stocks draw common teal to Jayanti Sarovar after several years Jamshedpur, Sept. 8: Population of the picturesque Jayanti Sarovar is swelling. Fruit bats and turtles are no longer its only occupants. They now have teals for company. Over 50 nests of the common teal (Anas crecca)
Vasudha Venugopal CHENNAI: The satellite telemetry tagging of a juvenile green turtle was carried out here on Sunday morning. The turtle, belonging to a rare species, was found entangled in a net in a fishing village in Chennai four months ago. Now, she goes back to the seas with technology …
Tirupati, Aug 10: A poacher, who suspected his brother of informing the police about hunting of star turtles, shot him dead at Shikaripalem village near Punganur on Tuesday night.On Monday the police and forest personnel had seized 200 star turtles worth Rs 10 lakh from the village and had taken …
Ronojoy Banerjee New Delhi: Tata Sons has moved the Delhi High Court against leading environmental NGOs Greenpeace India and Greenpeace International following a game that makes direct refrences to the company which are
