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 …
Nearly 100 people to be involved in the exercise The five-day census to enumerate the wildlife population is all set to begin in the 958 sq km area spread over six ranges of Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) from Wednesday. Talking to The Hindu , Field Director of ATR Rajiv K. …
A recent survey of the forest department (wildlife) Pune has found that there are 625 Indian Giant Squirrels, the state animal, in the Bhimashankar wildlife sanctuary, with occupany of about 50 squirrels per sq km area. The number shows that there is a good population and that breeding is taking …
Amidst stiff opposition from forest dwelling communities living on the fringes of Sathyamangalam Wildlife Sanctuary, against converting the old Veerappan lair as a tiger reserve, the forest department claimed on Monday that the tiger population was stable and poised for further increase. Sathyamangalam Divisional Forest Officer N Sathish said surveys …
To contain man-bear conflict effectively, the state government plans to have a comprehensive census of bears. Two species of this wild beast have been killing the people in the state due to fragmentation of their habitat over the years. The state has two important species of the bear - Asiatic …
NEW DELHI: It is a colony that has 4,011 people, 1,583 vehicles and 1,122 trees. A tree census at south Delhi's Sarvodaya Enclave, the first and only in the city, started in April 2011 and ended in May 2012. The results, revealed on Wednesday, threw up disturbing observations. The colony …
LUCKNOW: The Gangetic river dolphin census and awareness campaign was flagged off by transport minister Raja Mahendra Aridaman Singh on Friday. The state forest department, WWF-India and at least 14 NGOs will jointly do the count and also create awareness among the frontline forest staff and local communities along the …
Suspense over the exact number of tigers in India continued in the Supreme Court Wednesday when the Centre and other parties in a case relating to eco-tourism guidelines for the tiger reserves assumed contradictory positions on whether the number of big cats has risen or gone down. The exactness of …
LUCKNOW: New lease of life for the Gangetic dolphins of Uttar Pradesh. The state forest department has tied up with World Wildlife Fund (WWF-India) to conduct a detailed census of the gangetic dolphins and create awareness about them among local communities. "We have got a good response from the local …
The national bird peacock seems to be low on the priority list of Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) considering the fact that the national peacock census proposed by the Wildlife Institute of India has been pending for nearly five years. WII scientists point out that they need funds …
KOLKATA, 14 SEPT: The state animal resources development (ARD) department will start a livestock census tomorrow. Mr Uday Shankar Nandi, the Milk Commissioner and Special Secretary of the ARD department, said this will be the nineteenth livestock census in West Bengal and his department will collect data on livestock including …
NAVI MUMBAI: Even as the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) claims that a tree census has been overdue only for the last six to eight months, the tree count could be actually delayed by more than a year. However, the NMMC seems to be at a loss to explain the …
AHMEDABAD: The population of vultures in the city may not have shown a decline in the 2010 census, but the expert scavenger is quickly losing ground here. Ahmedabad has seen a drop of about 44 per cent in the bird's population in just two years, according to latest figures. This …
Poachers have killed 73 elephants in the State since 2005 and 157 persons arrested during the period on the charge of killing wild animals. Of the 73 jumbos killed, 57 were shot dead and 16 were poisoned, Forest and Environment Minister Bijayshree Routray on Tuesday told the Assembly in a …
At 938, It’s At All-Time Low In Gujarat: Survey Ahmedabad: If there is an address for vultures in Gujarat, then it is Kutch. This district neighbouring Indo-Pak border has the highest number of Gyps vultures including White-Rumped vultures and Long-Billed vultures in the state. The vulture census taken up in …
The Forest Department is all set to conduct a bird census in the Biligiriranganathaswamy Tiger (BRT) Reserve forest in November, after a gap of 15 years. The Biligiriranganabetta is a unique hill where the Eastern and Western Ghats meet. It is home to more than 1,000 varieties of plants. Twenty-four …
Take Stock Of Trees In Sarvodaya Enclave; Note Causes of Waning Green Cover. It took an entire year but residents of Sarvodaya Enclave in south Delhi finally know more than 90% of the trees planted in the colony; their location, species, height, girth and condition. This is thanks to a …
In a bid to actively involve the private sector in the global effort to protect tiger, the World Bank and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) have teamed up to establish ‘India Wildlife Business Council’ (IWBC) that would promote the conservation of the endangered species. After signing a Memorandum of …
MELBOURNE'S expanding urban growth boundary is forecast to hit remnant populations of one of the state's most endangered frogs, just as new figures show an almost 30 per cent drop in growling grass frog populations over the past decade. Results of a Melbourne University survey released to The Age found …
NEW DELHI, 24 JUNE: Despite nationwide movements and campaigns to save tigers, 48 tigers have been reported dead in the first six months of this year and 19 cases have been clearly stated as cases of poaching. What is worse, the number could be much more. According to Mr SP …
At a time when the tiger population is fast dwindling, India has reported an alarming increase in tiger deaths. An estimated 48 tigers have reportedly died in the first six months of this year (till June 10). Nearly 40 per cent of the total deaths have been caused due to …
