Affidavit by HPCL Shapoorji Energy Pvt Ltd. in compliance to the National Green Tribunal order, February 12, 2020 in the matter of Protection of Environment and Public Service Committee Vs Union of India & Others. The matter related to an all-weather deep-draft port at village Chhara Sarakhadi in taluka Kodinar …
Three developing countries have recently toughened hunting regulations believing the changes will better protect vanishing species. Botswana has announced it will ban trophy hunting on public lands beginning in 2014, while Zambia has recently banned any hunting of leopards or lions, both of which are disappearing across Africa. However, the …
Rajkot: Close to seven lakh people who undertook the fiveday annual Parikrama around Mount Girnar in November left the Girnar Wildlife Sanctuary littered with nearly 23,000 kg of plastic waste. This is an alarming fourfold increase in the quantity of plastic waste strewn in the sanctuary compared to 2011. The …
Rarely human communities coexist in harmony with large predators. Most often communities suffer due to predation on their stock while large carnivores suffer losses and at times extirpation due to retaliation. We examine the mechanisms permitting the coexistence of Asiatic lions (Panthera leo persica) and pastoral communities (Maldharis) in the …
Habitat Helps Wild Cats In Their Bid To Stay Away From Humans Ahmedabad: Contrary to the popular belief that lions prefer savanna grassland, the king of the jungle here in Gir National Park likes moist shady habitats instead. Main reason is that there are several human eyes keeping a watch …
Ahmedabad: Gir is facing a problem of plenty because against the population of 121 lionesses, it has the capacity to hold only 76 breeding lionesses within the forest area. The study revealed that the average territory size of a breeding group of lionesses was about 33 sq km. Going by …
The report, by conservation group LionAid, says that as few as 645 lions may now remain in the wild in western and central Africa, following a worrying decline in recent years. This decline has been mirrored across Africa, with estimates suggesting that only around 15,000 wild lions remain across the …
Zambia has banned the hunting of lions and other endangered wild cats such as leopards because it sees more value in game viewing tourism than blood sport, the country's tourism minister said on Thursday. Sylvia Masebo told Reuters big cat numbers were also too low to have a sustainable hunting …
Things couldn't have moved faster for the lion safari project in Etawah. The technical committee of the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF), GoI, granted the approval for the master layout plan of the project on Wednesday. The master layout plan, which is the blueprint of the project, had got …
About 75 percent of Africa's savannahs or grasslands and more than two-thirds of its lions have disappeared over 50 years, according to an American study. The study, led by Duke University researchers, estimates the number of lions now living on the savannahs to be as low as 32,000, down from …
Master plan for state's first lion safari may get final approval by the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) at the meeting in Lucknow on Wednesday. Lion safari will be developed as per the CZA guidelines and funds released by the state government. In August, authorities of the UP Forest department had …
LUCKNOW: Taking a step forward, the Uttar Pradesh government has sanctioned Rs 89 crore for the 10-year-long Lion Safari in Etawah. The government has also appointed UP Awas Vikas Parishad as the construction and executing agency for the safari. Lion Safari, which is an extended zoo has got the nod …
At a time when wild buffaloes, an endangered mammal species, are facing extinction, the state forest department has joined hands with leading NGOs to keep hopes alive to save the last remaining population. At a three-day workshop on 'Action planning for conservation of wild buffaloes in Central India' in the …
SP president Mulayam Singh Yadav’s dream project to have a lion safari in his native district of Etawah has once again run into trouble, this time due to a “missing” letter at the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF). The letter dated July 19 was reportedly sent by Rupak …
The tiger needs more space, the lion a second home. And the government is confused The tourist is invading the tiger's home, taking away his privacy. The lion's quarters are cramped, it could do with a second home. The government, however, dreamt of providing a home to the cheetah, instead. …
Asia’s biggest man-made 'Jungle Safari' will come up in a sprawling 200 acres of land in Chhattisgarh ‘Naya Raipur’ the high-tech city that will replace Raipur as state’s capital from November 1. Chief Minister Raman Singh on Friday performed laid the foundation stone for the project to be implemented in …
Almost a century after a French colonial hunter put a bullet in what came to be viewed as the last Atlas lion living in the wild, a Moroccan zoo is struggling to claw the fabled subspecies back from the brink of extinction. The majestic animal, also known as the Barbary …
Ahmedabad: Gujarat foresters are dealing with a new threat to the Gir wildlife sanctuary. Scarcity of fodder on the periphery of the sanctuary is forcing politicians to pressure the forest department to permit Maldharis to bring their cattle inside the sanctuary for grazing. Forest officials said that MLAs from the …
Rajkot: Wildlife activists have demanded a ban on illegal lion shows in Amreli district on the outskirts of Gujarat’s Gir sanctuary, where cattle is set as bait for Asiatic lions to entertain tourists. The last such instance was reported near Khambha on Saturday. Jilu Bhukal, a Khambha resident who is …
New Delhi: Countering Gujarat’s opposition to lion translocation project, the Madhya Pradesh government told the Supreme Court that a second habitat for Asiatic Lions in Kuno — cleared by National Board of Wildlife — was mandatory to avoid Tanzania’s disastrous experience in Serengeti where an epidemic outbreak almost wiped out …
First Asiatic lion, then cheetah: officials struggle to decide which animal to introduce, and when, in Kuno-Palpur sanctuary. But they evict tribal residents with poor compensation. Read More: http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/displaced-nothing
