Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
The Australian Government has set the new strategies to save its threatened wildlife. The Department of the Environment recently launched the new Threatened Species Strategy on Thursday, July 16, at the Threatened Species Summit in Melbourne in partnership with the local and private groups to protect Australia’s extinct animal and …
Arusha — Establishment of 17 new Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) is in the offing, according to Natural Resources and Tourism Minister, Mr Lazaro Nyalandu. He told a two-day forum for government, WMAs, tour operators and conservationists here that the government is collaborating with local communities surrounding national parks and game …
Arusha — UNITED States government, through its US Agency for International Development (USAID) has pledged over 30 million US dollars (about 70bn/-) in the next five years to boost wildlife and environment conservation efforts in Tanzania. To start with, the US Envoy to Tanzania, Ambassador Mark Childress launched the first …
We may be entering the "golden age" of animal tracking. Animals wearing new tagging and tracking devices are giving scientists a real-time look at their behavior and the environmental health of the planet. Radio-tracking technology has largely been replaced by smaller GPS tags over the past five years. These tags …
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Commitee on Natural Resources and Climate nchange Hon.Werani Chilenga 2nd from left speaking during the Press conference at C O I - Pic by Stanley Makuti Lilongwe, June 9, 2015: The Chairman for Natural Resources and Climate Change Committee, Werani Chilenga has said the committee implemented …
Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar on Monday said over 500 of the 3,200 online applications received for environmental clearances were approved last year. Listing the achievements of his ministry in its first year, Javadekar said: "We have given clearance to 505 (applications) and another 721 have been sent for terms …
Rampant eco-tourism could hamper the mating period and impede population growth; lions require complete privacy while mating While Gujarat may have seen an increase in the count of Asiatic lions in the Saurashtra region, as per the latest census, local communities and civil society organisations see illegal mining and rampant …
FNB Namibia recently handed over the first grant of N$400 000 to the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF), N$350 000 of which goes towards the reconstruction of the visitor's centre that burned down in 2013 while the remainder will be used to support an education programme. Dixon Norval, Head of Marketing …
Population of lions in Gir forest and other protected areas has gone up by 27 % as compared to 2010 Days after lion census 2015 concluded that population of Asiatic lions in Gir forest and other protected areas has gone up by 27 per cent as compared to 2010, state …
With emphasis being given to check loss of wildlife habitat and curb poaching in the trans-boundary Manas landscape that straddles across India and Bhutan, conservationists have suggested joint patrolling by forest officials on both sides of the border. The Manas National Park in western Assam is a contiguous landscape which …
THE government has said that it needs support from all stakeholders, ranging from public, private and relevant communities, to tackle thorny issues in conservation efforts such as poaching, which has increased over the years. The Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Mr Lazaro Nyalandu, made the remarks over the weekend …
Government has dismissed the claimed mandate of the newly-formed outfit Hwange Conservation Consortium (HCC), saying it only recognises the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority as the sole agency responsible for all wildlife conservation in the country. The statement by the Ministry of Environment, Water and Climate comes in the …
Environment minister Prakash Javadekar's claim that all's well with the country's rhinoceros population is only half the story. While the population of the onehorned rhinoceros is on the rise -2,401 at the most recent count undertaken in March -instances of poaching too have increased, with nine rhinos being killed by …
Karnataka has put forth a number of proposals before a high-level committee on amending the Wildlife Protection Act (WPA). Simplifying procedures and reducing time taken for major decisions pertaining to land conversion for developmental works, the need to strengthen and speed up laws to prosecute poachers, giving a relook to …
Large-scale encroachment, aging guards, defective weapons, zero conviction of poachers are bane of KNP The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) had found loopholes in the management plans in Kaziranga National Park which have been abetting poaching activities in the Unesco World Heritage Site. “Deficiencies in funding adversely affected …
Wildlife crime is at the top of the international conservation agenda. Current strategies for addressing it focus on law enforcement, reducing consumer demand and engaging local communities in conservation. To date considerably more attention has been paid to the first two strategies than to the third. This volume of case …
The all-India tiger estimation report has put the total number of tigers in the Northeast at 201, a significant increase from 148 recorded in the 2010 count. Of the 167 tigers counted in Assam, more than 125 are believed to be at the Kaziranga National Park, which is great news …
The problems facing wild elephants in India differ from forest to forest and from one state to another. So does the nature of human-elephant conflict, and wildlife experts say the problem needs to be tackled on a case-by-case basis in lieu of a generic one. This was the outcome at …
Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment & Forests present this Two Hundred and Fifty Third Report on "The Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Bill, 2013". The Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Bill, 2013 (hereinafter referred to as the Bill) was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on the 5th August, …
CBI's initial investigation into the alleged irregularities in granting environment clearances and mining rights in Jharkhand forests to Jindal Steel and Power Ltd and JSW Steel has thrown up enough evidence to call the then environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan for questioning, top sources in the agency claimed. Sources say Natarajan …
