Order of the Supreme Court in the matter of M K Ranjitsinh & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 21/03/2024. The matter related to protection of Great Indian Bustard (GIB) and Lesser Florican. The SC order of April 19, 2021 imposed restrictions on the setting up of overhead …
During the last hundred years or so, deforestation and wind-water borne soil erosion have been steadily increasing and have now become the major environmental problems the world over. The man-made Sukhna Lake brought into existence through blocking of the water flow in the Sukhna Choe originating from these hills by …
even as bird lovers are yet to come to grips with the Madhya Pradesh government's decision to close down the Shivpuri-based Great Indian Bustard Sanctuary, a forest official's statement has sent confusing signals. The announcement to shut down the sanctuary was made by the state forest minister, Harvansh Singh, at …
A severe hailstorm took a heavy toll on resident migratory birds in Assam recently. The storm killed more than 200 such birds in different parts of the state. Commonly known as the Asian openbill, the birds are called samukbhanga by local inhabitants. During spring every year, they come to Assam …
visitor birds coming to India every season are facing, not hospitality but hostility. They may just decide to give India a skip. Poachers are targeting these migrant birds, as well as the indigenous ones, which flock paddy fields and wetlands in Thiruvananthapuram in Kerela. These birds include species of herons …
Greens Free The government has freed five European environmental activists from the Quito jail recently. They were accused of damaging property while staging protests against the construction of a new oil pipeline, believed to encroach on the Mindo protected forest and bird habitat. Despite environmental repercussions, the government is counting …
Following the death of thousands of birds due to the H5 virus attack, Hong Kong has culled 18,000 chickens at a farm outside a quarantined area. Allaying fears, health authorities said the strain was not the kind that killed humans in 1997. "To prevent the spread of the virus, we …
For the last six years, shell duck, a common migratory bird, had ceased to make its annual guest appearance in the wetlands of Kashmir. This season, bird watchers are jubilant at its return, along with a host of other winged visitors for a customary halt. And all as a result …
Flooded with complaints, Tokyo has launched a citywide crow crackdown. The plan is aimed at wiping out 7,000 of the big black birds by March. As per the plan, 100 fenced-in-traps have been set up where the birds would be lured and then gassed out by carbon dioxide. More than …
Beauty might be just two molecules deep. This has been proved by a recent experiment, wherein, researchers caused chicken embryos to develop a second beak. To accomplish the feat, researchers from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, manipulated cells that become part of the beak's front end when …
there is hope for winged creatures in Germany. The Westkuestenpark Oiled Seabird Rehabilitation Centre at St Peter-Ording in Schleswig-Holstein is preventing around 200 birds from being killed due to an oil spill. Earlier, cleaning oiled birds was thought to be futile by wildlife authorities. "They would literally hire hunters after …
Early morning twitter is music to ears. But soon this melody may turn into a requiem with the bird community slowly being driven out of its natural surroundings. Constant human encroachment on the forest cover is forcing these avian creatures to abandon their homes and explore alternate sites for shelter …
Alarmed over the recent confiscation of 250 rare quality falcons at the Multan airport, the Pakistan government has imposed a ban on the export of the birds to save them from extinction. An official source said, "No Pakistani or foreigner would be allowed to export any kind of falcon from …
with an aim to save vultures from extinction, a novel programme to breed these birds has been jointly launched by the State Wildlife Preservation Department, Haryana and Bombay Natural History Society (bnhs) at Bir hunting ground near Pinjore. Haryana Chief Wildlife Warden R D Jakati said quite a number of …
Development and conservation can go hand in hand. This has been proved in Hong Kong with rail officials deciding to build a tunnel under a wetland after conservationists thwarted a move to run the tracks through the wetland. The government-owned Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation wanted to build a new train line …
One of the world's rarest species of birds have been found near a volcano. At least 50 Montserrat Orioles were cited beneath the rim of a volcano in the Soufriere Hills of West Indies. The discovery was made by experts trying to map the effects of the volcano on the …
At least 20 endangered sarus cranes were recently killed and eaten by villagers of the Banteay Meanchey province of Cambodia. "The birds ate many rice plants and, therefore, the villagers hunted them,' said Thach Khorn, the provincial governor. Sun Hean, a wildlife department official, opines that such incidences are the …
Many species of predators and crop-friendly birds have migrated from cotton fields in Pakistan due to the excessive use of pesticide. Starling, quail, dove, fruit beets, house crow, blue rock pigeon, nightingale, sparrow and woodpecker are some of the bird species that have deserted the Pakistani cotton fields. This is …
The fossil of a small flying reptile cloaked in feathers has put the theory that birds evolved from dinosaurs under scrutiny. The lizard-like feathered reptile lived about 220 million years ago. The fossil, called Longisquama, suggests that feathered animals lived prior to dinosaurs. The finding casts doubt about theories advocating …
