Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
A two-day marathon exercise to count the migratory birds descending on the wetlands of Pong Dam lake near here will commence on Monday. The annual census of migratory and local birds at Maharana Pratap Sagar (an artificial lake) takes place towards the end of January and beginning of February every …
Move was proposed to provide employment under the MGNREGS Timely intervention by environment activists has prevented the destruction of a rich mangrove forest at Azheekkal in Alapad grama panchayat in Kollam district. The forest stands in a property owned by the Fisheries Resource Management Society (FIRMA), a wing of the …
The results of the vulture census in the Panna Tiger Reserve (PTR) will definitely provide wildlife enthusiasts with a reason to cheer. The count in the third annual estimation exercise that concluded on Monday has registered an increase of 39 per cent over the last year's figures. While the maximum …
Munderikkadavu and surrounding areas in the district have to be protected with the involvement of local bodies to develop it into a bird sanctuary, a report prepared by birders on the proposal for conserving the area as a bird sanctuary said. The findings and the recommendations of the report came …
NEW DELHI: The declining number of migratory birds in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) has been perturbing bird watching circles who blame it on loss of habitat due to human encroachment. Every winter, a large number of migratory birds from frigid northern and central Asia visit the cold …
Berhampur: With detection of H5N1 avian influenza at two places of Odisha, a Central team on Monday visited the Chilika lake area to study symptoms of bird flu on the migratory birds. The two-member surveillance team observed the behavior of migratory birds in the lake, particularly in the Nalabana, the …
Majority of the tiger habitat in Indian subcontinent lies within high human density landscapes and is highly sensitive to surrounding pressures. These forests are unable to sustain healthy tiger populations within a tiger-hostile matrix, despite considerable conservation efforts. Ranthambore Tiger Reserve (RTR) in Northwest India is one such isolated forest …
Bhubaneswar: The annual bird census in Chilika lake was conducted on Sunday. Like every year, the census was conducted by many as 80 experts and 17 voluntary organisations, including ornithologists from Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Bombay Natural History Society and National Board of Wildlife were engaged in direct …
Ahmedabad: A conservation activist found 33 severed heads and legs of lesser flamingos in Gujarat’s Little Rann of Kutch. Bodies of the birds were missing though leading to the suspicion that they had been killed for meat. Flamingo is on the list of near-threatened birds. TOI had reported the death …
Officials of West Bengal's Forest Department fear that there may be a massive decline in the number of migratory birds coming to the Santragachi Lake in Howrah district this winter. “The preliminary estimates suggest that between 5,000 and 5,500 birds have come to the lake this season. However, the actual …
BARNADI (UDALGURI), Dec 26 – Has the elusive pigmy hog that catapulted Barnadi wildlife sanctuary into global prominence following the rediscovery of the pigmy hog and hispid hare in 1971 (after both were thought to be extinct) done the disappearing act again? Conservationists and foresters alike are groping in the …
Ahmedabad: Insulate high tension cables or put them underground when they run close to the breeding grounds of the migratory greater flamingos in the Khadir region of Kutch. The state forest & environment department issued this order to the Gujarat Energy Transmission Company (Getco) on Thursday after TOI reported that …
Ahmedabad: Greater Flamingos, which fly thousands of miles from Siberia to breed in the warm marshes of the Khadir region in Kutch, are landing into a death trap. In the past 10 days, at least 400 of these graceful birds have been electrocuted by high tension cables near their breeding …
Through the air, over land and in water, over ten thousand species numbering millions of animals travel around the world in a network of migratory pathways. The very foundation of these migratory species is their connection to places and corridors across the planet. The loss of a single point in …
Despite the decline in the number of migratory birds this winter in the coal and steel belt of Dhanbad-Bokaro in Jharkhand, poachers continue to kill the winter visitors. The exotic birds that come in search of a home here to escape the severe winter, are ironically finding their way on …
JAMUGURIHAT, Nov 23 – Hundreds of Siberian cranes have flown into Barbhagia, Jamugurihat for breeding. The winged visitors come during May-June every year and this has been going on for the last seven years. After their chicks attain maturity, they leave the place in December. At first, a lone crane …
SRINAGAR, Nov 23: With winter already set in, a record number of more than eight lakh migratory birds have arrived in various wet lands of Kashmir valley. Wild life warden Wetlands Kashmir, Rouf Zargar told Kashmir Times that more than six lakh migratory birds from Siberia, China and Central Asia …
IMPHAL: With the onset of winter, various types of migratory birds have started arriving at the lakes in Manipur. Apart from the small lakes and water holes here and there, Loktak Lake is the biggest fresh water lake in eastern India. Reports say that thousands of the winged friends come …
Imphal, 27 Oct: Winged guests migrating to Manipur as well as countless fishes who swim across from bordering Burma for breeding now have to look elsewhere. A friendly host to them for years, Manipur's picturesque Loktak lake is no longer a welcome home for these international visitors whose presence add …
The government has responded to the citizens’ initiative to preserve Santragachhi Jheel as a habitat for migrant waterfowl by washing its hands of the responsibility, only offering technical help to those trying to welcome the winter guests. At a meeting with the district forest officer of Howrah on Thursday, forest …
