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 …
Garbage floating in the oceans could pose a threat to marine life. One such site is a remote group of islands in the Indian ocean, 1,500 km southwest of Jakarta, Indonesia, where the population of green turtles inhabiting the shores is endangered. Thousands of rubber flip-flops are being washed onto …
emerging stronger and starker links between trade and environment have made the 1990s a momentous decade for environmentalists. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (gatt), which never explicitly alluded to environment, has evolved into the World Trade Organization (wto), a legally binding institution. The wto, in turn, has set …
The Save Coast Movement (SCM) of Orissa scored a major victory in its campaign to protect the habitat of the olive ridley turtles. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), bowing to pressure from the movement's leaders agreed to adopt measures to protect the endangered turtle. The DRDO is setting …
Threatened with a crushing blow to its us $2 billion shrimp industry, Thailand is making belated efforts to save sea turtles which are fast disappearing from its waters. The Phuket Marine Biology Centre recently released 200 baby sea turtles into the Andaman Sea, though experts believe they would not survive …
IN A life span of 60-70 years, a turtle may travel thousands of kilometers from its birthplace, but it always finds its way back to the same spot or someplace close to it, whenever it lays eggs. This intriguing and unerring instinct is now being attributed to the fact that …
IT SEEMS poachers can go to any length to carry on their trade. Poaching of flora and fauna goes on unchecked in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. An Institute of British Geographers survey has raised serious concerns about the killing of estuarine crocodiles for their skins and the slaughtering of …
In a bid to conserve the endangered sea turtle population, a non-killing method of monitoring chemical pollutants in their tissues has been developed. Earlier, sea-turtles, including loggerhead and green sea turtles, were killed in laboratories to monitor the heavy metal concentrations. Unhatched eggs have has been found to he potentially …
The stir against the Orissa government's plans to set up a fishing complex in Bhitarkanika sanctuary has now assumed global dimensions. The Sea Turtle Restoration Project in the US will host educational events and publicise the threats posed to the world's largest sea turtle nesting site by the proposed complex. …
ORISSA'S southern coast was recently the scene of hectic activity as thousands of Olive Ridley sea turtles nested there en masse. The turtles, which figure in the list of endangered species, nested at the Rushikulya rivermouth in Ganjam district. This spectacular event, when turtles congregate for nesting, is called arribada, …
Millions of years ago, some adventurous amphibians left their watery abode, forayed on to beaches and evolved into reptiles that started laying eggs on dry land, breaking away from their ancestors, who laid eggs in fresh water. The reptile eggs were shrouded by a special fluid-membrane called the amniotic membrane, …
TURTLES, bought originally as children's pets at the height of the Mutant Ninja Turtle craze, are posing a serious threat to bathers in the French Riviera. Biologists say the pet turtles, abandoned and flushed down lavatories or discarded in lakes, have flourished in the hot climate and absence of predators. …
SLOW AND steady wins the race, goes the moral of one of the most popular of Aesop's fables in which an arrogant hare loses a race to a persevering tortoise. But, two US brain researchers say if the race had taken place at twilight instead of during the day, as …
