Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Containers from sunken ship likely to drift towards Alappuzha, Kollam Coasts in 48 hours: INCOIS" appearing in The Hindu dated 25.05.2025 dated 27/05/2025. The original application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled …
THE government postponed tiger census in the Sunderbans for the fourth time in one month. The census of the Bengal Tigers using hidden cameras was postponed this time due to delay in arrival of an Indian expert and researcher named Dipanjan Naha, said forest conservator for wildlife management and nature …
Camera trapped census of the Bengal Tiger population and monitoring in the Sundarbans kicked off here today. More than a thousand field workers are using 89 cameras for trapping to count the total tiger population in the Bangladesh part of the world's largest mangrove forest, which also covers part of …
The Periyar Tiger Reserve is preparing for the tiger census, 2014, with the support of a modern technique for identifying and tagging each tiger for more effective conservation. The reserve will be the first in the country to give identification numbers to each tiger without outside support. The tigers are …
A survey conducted in the upper region of Humla district has found goa (Procapra picticaudata), also known as the Tibetan gazelle and Argali or the mountain sheep, which was deemed extinct. The survey team, that used methods like camera trapping, recorded and unrecorded observation and discussion with the locals, has …
There's big news for wildlife lovers. With a sudden spurt in cub sightings in the Sunderbans, officials say there could actually be more tigers in the mangroves than what the latest camera trap study revealed — 103. The successive sightings of two cubs — in the forests of Pirkhali under …
Researchers from the Northeast have found that the population of clouded leopards and common leopards in Manas National Park are increasing and its density is comparable to other parks. The study, Abundance and density estimates for common leopard and clouded leopard in Manas National Park, Assam, was carried out by …
718 elephants have died in since 2000 due to different reasons, Odisha government today told the state assembly. This was stated by Forest and Environment Minister Bijayshree Routray while replying a question. He said the state government had identified 14 elephant corridors in the and taken up a five-year comprehensive …
The population of monkeys, who have become nuisance for farmers and people in Himachal Pradesh, has come down by 55,000 as per the latest census conducted by the state forest department, forest minister Thakur Singh Bharmauri told state assembly during the question hour on Monday. Replying to a question of …
After finding the presence of at least 103 tigers in the Sunderbans, a figure more than the official estimates, the foresters now want to back the number with a Prey base of tigers in the Sunderbans, mostly spotted deer and wild boars, has always been under scanner. in the mangroves. …
The number of tigers is likely to go up in the Dudhwa reserve this year as eight to ten big cats have been captured on the cameras installed in the territory. Though Dudhwa officials are tightlipped on the number of tigers spotted, they are hopeful that tiger census, slated to …
In 2006, 1,114 tigers roamed the country's forests. In 2010, that number rose to 1,706. Come 2014, will Waghpurians and other tiger lovers across the country have a reason to rejoice? Or will deforestation and poaching have cast their ugly shadow over the big cats' population? We'll have to wait …
Nepal's number of Royal Bengal tigers in the wild has soared 64 percent to 198 in just four years, according to a government survey released Monday. Experts attributed the rise to a crackdown on poaching as the government vowed to double the number of tigers in the wild by 2022. …
Nepal witnessed a record 63 percent growth in the tiger population in the last four years. A ‘scientific’ census conducted by the government in the last five moths shows the population of the endangered animals in Nepal shoot up from the 121 in 2009 to 198 this year. Experts attribute …
A recent tiger census at two organic roads has confirmed the extinction of striped-tigers in the far-west. The incident came to light after cameras installed in Kanchanpur’s Laljhadi and Kailali’s Basanta organic roads showed no footage of big cats this year. Meanwhile, cheetahs, bears and hyenas were captured in the …
Forest officials will carry out a survey on the rare Egyptian vultures, after a number of them were spotted near Laxmipur in Ganjam district's Chikiti forest range. A bird-watcher recently sighted 13 such birds and reported it to the divisional forest officer (DFO), Berhampur. "A survey should be conducted and …
Mumbai: The number of tigers is increasing in many states, says the latest census. But wildlife experts still see red over conservation efforts, which are hampered by rampant poaching and construction of infrastructure projects in forest areas. While the source population has been better protected in most states since 2006, …
World Tiger Day would be observed today in the country as elsewhere in the world underlining the need for protecting the endangered tiger species against total extinction. Some 41 tigers were killed and 11 died normally in last 17 years in the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, said forest …
The Uttar Pradesh government has cleared housing projects and townships in Greater Noida West, formerly named Noida Extension, without considering key environmental parameters and the rich wildlife of the area, which has now all but vanished, concerned environmentalists here say. "The state's environment directorate has completely failed in discharging its …
Authorities in Bandhavgarh reserve have mentioned infighting as the reason of death Failure of authorities to act on an advice for relocating tigers from high density Bandhavgarh reserve to other habitats has allegedly resulted in death of a big cat due to infighting. The carcass of the big cat was …
Red panda census began for the first time in Dhorpatan Hunting Reserve to take stock of the latest status of the endangered species in the area. Dhorpatan is the only hunting reserve in Nepal. The red panda counting was started from April by the Reserve office with the support of …
