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 concept of zoos has undergone a sea change in the past couple of decades. Zoos are no longer meant to serve as showpieces, exhibiting wildlife in confinement. Rather, these are supposed to serve long-term needs of conservation by facilitating research on diverse aspects of wildlife and their management. On …
Orissa plans to manage them WITH wildlife habitat getting fragmented, elephants are more frequently straying into urban areas and causing mayhem. On January 1, a herd of elephants entered the Berhampur University campus and went on a rampage near campus staff quarters. The son of a staff member was injured. …
Syed Basharat SRINAGAR, Jan 7: After successfully commencing a research project on Asiatic black bears in Dachigam National Park, the state wild life department is contemplating to fix the Global Positioning System (GPS)-a space-based radionavigation system on Kashmiri Hangul to monitor all weather reliable information about home ranges, seasonal movements, …
TIMES NEWS NETWORK Lucknow: Has the young tiger of Pilibhit outwitted WII? The twomember team of Wildlife Institute of India (WII) had joined the search operation about a week back. Going by the reports from Faizabad division, the team has gone back. In all possibility, another set of experts have …
The Government of Assam constituted the Rhino Task Force in June 2005, incorporating conservationists from diverse backgrounds, from government as well as non-governmental organizations, to make the dream drafted under IRV 2020 into reality. The first meeting of the Rhino Task Force was held in November 2005 at Guwahati. The …
Studies of three short projects in North Sikkim to document some of the biogeographic history including some of the traditional methods of wildlife conservation and subsistence lifestyles among the truly nomadic Dokpas in the cold desert and partially trans-humant Bhutia tribals of Lachen and Lachung valleys, who practice the Dzumsa …
The non-professional volunteers are commonly used in biodiversity assessment due to lack of experts. The bird identification skills of indigenous Lepcha community have been recognized and the accuracy of data generated by them has been assesed. Bird sampling was done using point count method along the transects in three locations …
DIBRUGARH, Dec 19: The Forest Department of the State should be empowered with the special power in order to control the pachyderm menace in the State effectively. Dibrugarh MP Sarbananda Sonowal demanded this while addressing the Parliament on December 18. He said that the delegation of power to the State …
Udhagamandalam: A meeting of the Tamil Nadu Forest Staff Association, Gudalur and Mudumalai chapters, held at Gudalur on Sunday urged the Government to provide protection to the forest officials associated with the implementation of Project Tiger at Mudumalai and surroundings. Adverting to the recent targeting of the forest office at …
Udhagamandalam: The opposition to the declaration of the Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary as a Tiger Reserve and consequent tightening of wildlife related rules took a new turn on Tuesday. A group of persons from Masinagudy and surroundings adjoining the reserve allegedly stormed into the office of the wildlife ranger Duraiswamy and …
Olive Ridley protection may finally get a place in the State Budget. The High Power Committee, headed by Chief Secretary Ajit Tripathy, on Saturday decided on creation of a budget head for streamlining conservation. Piecemeal assistance will be a thing of the past. Currently, protection measures of the endangered amphibians …
This report provides a comprehensive management effectiveness evaluation of the Protected Areas Network in India. It also includes the assessment criteria for management effectiveness evaluation (MEE) of PA network in India - site level.
Clemenceau stranded again: Citizens groups can now go to court against the French warship Le Clemenceau docking in the UK water for dismantling in the country. UK
The authors refer to the correspondence on the use of tiger farms for conservation by Xavier. There seems to be an over-simplification of several points raised about the management of tiger farms and other issues related to tiger conservation. In the following discussion, the terms
Bustards are magnificent, tall, long-necked and long-legged birds belonging to the avian family Otididae. There are about 23 species of bustards in the world, and the Great Indian Bustard (GIB; Ardeotis nigriceps) is the most endangered among these. (Correspondence)
BY G. MANJUSAINATH, BANGALORE: The apparent obsession of the Indian Forest Service (IFS) officials to be posted in the urban locations of Bangalore, Mysore and other major cities of the State has meant, there are not many willing to be in the forests to keep a check on the rising …
Awareness drive: Khadi Board Minister K. Ramachandran flagging off a rally organised as part of the Wildlife Week celebrations in Udhagamandalam on Monday. Udhagamandalam: With a procession organised by the Forest Department, the curtain came down on the 2008 Fauna and Flora Week celebrations here on Monday. It was flagged …
