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 …
Coimbatore: The Forest Development Agency of the Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary in Kerala abutting the Anaimalai Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu has introduced an innovative online wildlife quiz from this August. In a release, Wildlife Warden of the sanctuary Sanjayan Kumar said that the quiz was available on the website www.parambikulam.org. …
GANDHINAGAR: The state government admitted in the Assembly on Wednesday that only 291 of the 359 lions in Gir were in the protected sanctuary area. Replying to a question by Karjan MLA Chandu Dabhi, the government said as per the last census conducted in 2005, there were 68 adult lions, …
GANDHINAGAR: Special task force formed by state government after 2007 poaching incidents has suggested that apart from use of GPS-based tracking and other modern surveillance systems, establishment of gene pool population and a genetic laboratory for cryopreservation of genetic material is needed to save lions. Forest department, in reply to …
AGARTALA, July 9: The Union Government has released an amount of Rs 3,102.6922 lakh to the northeastern States under various centrally sponsored schemes, for the conservation and management of wildlife and its habitats during the past three years. According to official sources here today, a total amount of Rs 892.76 …
KOCHI: A fresh controversy is brewing up in the State with regard to transfer of Government-owned captive elephants to individuals in connivance with some officials in the Forest Department. The nexus between the Forest officials and the mafia came to light after the death of a captive elephant
Nagapattinam district in Tamil Nadu has a coastline of 161 km.The Government of India through its Ministry of Environment and Forests and the Wetland and Wildlife Management Division funds various olive ridley conservation projects every year along this coast. A description of various activities carried out along the Nagapattinam coast …
KOCHI: Yet another racket operating in the State to legalise the ownership of elephants without proper legal documents has come to light. The officials of the Forest Department have begun probe into a complaint wherein tuskers from outside the State were brought to Kerala for implanting microchip on them by …
Tourists planning an outing at Betla National Park, Palamau, in the next few months may just do well to forgo the trip. For, the wildlife authorities have decided to close the park for three months from July 1 to provide privacy to animals to help them breed. Wildlife officials argue …
KOCHI: As the project launched by Forest and Wildlife Department to implant microchips on captive elephants officially coming to an end on Monday, the department has decided to take into custody those elephants which are not fitted with the microchips hereafter. Chief Wildlife Warden (CWC) K A Ouseph told The …
The Environment Ministry has approved a blueprint for tiger relocation prepared by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), paving the way for the second phase of big cat population revival plan in the Sariska reserve of Rajasthan. "I have approved the protocol. It is an important plan for better tiger …
Guwahati: The Assam government is yet to constitute the Kaziranga Tiger Foundation, due to which the tiger reserve has been deprived of the direct flow of funds from the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA). The reserve is also yet to have a full-fledged Tiger Conservation Plan. The State is required …
Death of a leopard, 'Sheru' on Wednesday after death of a tigress 'Ira' on Tuesday has put the Van Vihar management and the whole forest department officials in a predicament. Even the state government is worried over the continuous death of wild animals in captivity. A young tigress 'Ira' died …
Expressing concern over declining tiger population in Madhya Pradesh, Tiger Cell has decided to make available three companies of police force, Special Tiger Protection Force according to the guidelines of National Tiger Conservation Authority. To implement three other points of the guideline of Authority a three-member committee has been constituted. …
