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 …
BHUBANESWAR: A Parasite management protocol being developed by the Nandankanan Zoological Park seems to be working wonders for inmates of the animal park and may prove path breaking for other zoos of India. Developed in collaboration with the Centre for Wildlife Health, a centre set up at the Orissa College …
Some of the most important habitats likely to support tiger populations in Assam would be mapped by remote sensing in a project envisaged by a conservation group. Areas in and around Kaziranga, Laokhowa, Orang, Manas, Nameri, Pobitora and Dibru Saikhowa would be scanned from space, under a project planned by …
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: Forest department has begun the implementation of Gir task force report. It has floated tenders to acquire 119 global positioning system (GPS) sets. These will enable the department to locate and manage lions better. This is the second step towards implementation of the report. The …
THE relationship between trade in drugs, arms and wildlife was discussed at a regional consultation meeting of key forest officials, scientists, conservationists and representatives of NGOs. The meeting was organised by Sanctuary, The Wildlife Conservation Trust, Mumbai, and the Bengal Tiger Line, in association with the Southern India Chamber of …
Ajai Shukla / Tezpur (assam) May 04, 2009, 0:27 IST The Defence R&D; Organisation (DRDO) offers intellectual challenges, but not an adventurous image. A DRDO director is perceived as a man in a white coat working in a laboratory or gazing at computer monitors. But the Defence Research Laboratory (DRL) …
NITYA KOUSHIK Mumbai, APRIL 17 NOW you can take a short-term post graduation course in wildlife management, if you want to serve a forest department or a zoo as a wildlife veterinarian. The Maharashtra Animal and Fisheries Sciences University, a state university based in Nagpur, will bring together the forest …
Keshav Kumar, IGP (Prisons), has been invited to Wildlife Institute of India in Dehradun, to train Uttarakhand police officials in investigating and prosecuting wildlife crime cases. Kumar is to take lecture sessions on Saturday and Sunday at the institute. Uttarakhand has been hit by a recent surge of poaching cases …
JORHAT, April 16: Forest employees of the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) are likely to resume their agitation after the Lok Sabha polls in protest against the police failure to arrest Thowra MLA Kushal Duori and Bokakhat MLA Jiten Gogoi allegedly assaulted the Park Ranger when he tried to prevent them …
The State Chief Electoral Officer has reportedly assured to consider exemption of staff and vehicles of wildlife/tiger reserves from election duties during general elections - 2009. On a request by a City-based non-profit-organisation, Wildlife First, the Chief Electoral Officer M N Vidyashankar is said to have assured that he will …
NAGAON, March 23: The Nagaon Upabhokta Suraksha Samity (NUSS) in a meeting organized jointly with the Gangutri Mahila Samity demanded protection of wild animals including Rhinos and other forest resources from the Government. The Upabhokta Samity and the Gangutri Mahila Samity cautioned the government that if the government failed to …
R KRISHNA DAS Raipur, 6 March Willing to adopt a lion, tiger or a bear! Please contact Chhattisgarh government's forest department for further information. An increase in the expenses to maintain the wild animals has prompted the department to come up with a plan to enable people to act as …
Mumbai: Wildlife experts are fuming over recent decisions made by the Maharashtra State Wildlife Board (SWB), alleging that the board has been acting against the interests of wildlife. The board met hurriedly on February 20, without prior notice to members and without issuing an agenda. Forests minister Babanrao Pachpute chaired …
Alan Rabinowitz is the world's leading jaguar expert, and he has begun to realize his dream of creating a vast network of interconnected corridors and refuges extending from the U.S.-Mexico border into South America. It is known as Paseo del Jaguar
Cash-starved Jharkhand zoo offers animals for adoption Birsa Munda Zoological Park at Ormanjhi in Jharkhand too has launched an animal adoption scheme. The state government recently came up with the plan saying it has exhausted all funds for the upkeep of the zoo. Individuals and corporates can adopt a single …
