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 …
despite the farming of ratites (ostrich, emu, cassowary) proving to be a lucrative business the world over, the same does not hold true for India. The government's attitude has not been very helpful in encouraging and developing the farming of these birds. In fact for the want of an import …
it has been twenty-eight years since the Oriental white stork disappeared from Japan. The birds stopped inhabiting the Japanese countryside due to the overuse of agro-chemicals in paddy fields that killed the loach, a staple food for the birds. In the hope of seeing the birds in Japan again, the …
a steppe eagle nest in extreme northwestern Mongolia comprised mostly of long bones of domestic animals. It also contained an iron piston rod, a 30-cm section of a hay mowing sickle bar, a rubber fly swat and a flattened metal food can. On four expeditions (1994, 1995, 1997 and 1998) …
The black redstart, Phoenicurus ochruros , is protected under Britain's Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981. The legislation, however, only covers the bird during the breeding season. First noticed in 1926, their numbers increased significantly during the 1940s. But now extinction threatens the bird. Besides nesting sites, the birds need places …
Pollution at the popular Bang Poo resort is threatening the survival of migratory seabirds that come from Siberia. Discharge from factories and the death of the mangrove forest
japanese organic farmer Takao Furuno has hit upon a novel idea to make his paddy fields flourish: soon after the rice seedlings are planted, he releases ducks into the fields. "Well, it has been called a
• The Himachal Pradesh government has introduced the long-awaited agriculture crop insurance scheme from the coming rabi season. • Joseph Rotblat from UK, social reformers Narayanbhair Desai, Ajoy Kumar Basu and Saraswati Gora has been conferred the Jamanlal Bajaj Awards for 1999 by the Maharashtra governor P C Alexander. • …
apart from the signboards directing the way to Son Chirya Sanctuary in Ghategaon, it is quite impossible to tell whether your destination has arrived. A railway line goes past the protected area, situated 60 km from the historic town of Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh. There is an irrigation dam, too, …
uk's penguin population is being severely hit by a brain disease believed to be linked to an outbreak of bird malaria. All 26 rare penguins at Marwell Zoo in Hampshire have died and Edinburgh Zoo has lost several since the start of the summer. Penguin experts have linked the deaths …
according to a new report released by BirdLife International, a global wildlife group, one in eight of the world's bird species faces extinction in the next millennium because of damage to the environment. BirdLife International, representing 2.2 million people in 105 countries, said that 1,200 bird species could become extinct …
vultures along with some 50 other species of birds have migrated from Delhi in the last few years as their traditional habitats have made way for unplanned urban development, says Rupin Dang, a naturalist. Bird counts and other census data show that about 30 years ago, the capital was home …
in the first week of October, the Thol reservoir in the Mehsana district of Gujarat witnessed another episode of human-avian conflict. Thousands of villagers marched to the reservoir and demanded the release of water to save their crops. Faced with the agitated crowd the guards relented. The reservoir was originally …
uk' s annual Breeding Birds Survey, released recently, says global warming could be good news for some of the country's best-loved birds. There has been a marked rise in their numbers between 1994 and 1998
in 1975, a dc -10 taking off from New York City's John F Kennedy airport lost one of its three engines when it ran into a flock of seagulls. The plane slid off the runway and caught fire, but no one was hurt. The passengers of a Boeing 707, however, …
Coyotes are bird's best friends, according to ecologists who have studied how these animals keep smaller predators such as cats in check. Kevin Crooks of the University of California at Santa Cruz and Michael Soule of the Wildlife Project in Hotchkiss, Colorado, surveyed enclaves of land around San Diego. Areas …
the Union government is planning to prohibit location of landfill sites within a 10-km radius of airports and airbases in the direction of the fly-in tunnel and within three kilometres in other directions. The move is to ensure that birds hovering over landfills do not obstruct the air passage and …
keoladeo national park in Bharatpur, Rajasthan, is fast losing its population of rare birds due to unchecked human habitation. The human population around the forest has registered a 24 per cent growth over the last 10 years. This is threatening bird migration, says a study conducted by the United Nations …
iron powder and magnets may come to the rescue of birds caught in oil spills. John Orbell and his colleagues at the Victoria University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, said the iron is sprinkled on the affected areas of the birds and combing the feathers with a magnet removes oil …
did the earliest flying birds evolve from fast runners that learnt to flap their wings and take off? Proponents of this theory have faced some nagging problems. How could a ground-dwelling animal run fast enough to reach takeoff speed, and why would it be flapping its wings? One calculation based …
s m satheesan, senior programme officer, forest and wildlife conservation division of the World Wide Fund for Nature ( wwf ) said that the primary reason for the decline in vulture populations in India is pesticide poisoning. He was delivering a talk at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on …
