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 …
Monitoring of tiger populations is done at regular intervals of four years and is a crucial component of evaluating the efficacy of tiger conservation efforts. The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), Government of India (GoI) published a booklet containing the results of the All-India Tiger Estimation exercise for the …
Shillong: The State Forest department has requested the Central Government to direct the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun to conduct a detailed survey of the latest tiger population in the State. Talking to The Shillong Times here on Sunday, Principal Chief Conservator of Forest VK Nautiyal said the State had …
Guwahati, Sept. 21: WWF India will begin its tiger estimation effort in the picturesque Tale wildlife sanctuary of Arunachal Pradesh with camera traps in the first week of October. The area in the Nameri-Pakke landscape has the largest tiger population in Arunachal Pradesh, said the 2010 report on Status of …
The Wild Life Department of Sri Lanka today announced that the wild elephant survey carried out from August 11 till 14 has revealed that an elephant population of 5,879 currently exist in the country. Wild Life Minister S.M. Chandrasena told a press conference that 1,107 out of the total 5,879 …
The recent island wide elephant census has revealed there are 5,879 elephants in Sri Lanka and this marks the highest density of wild elephants in the Asian continent, Agrarian Services and Wildlife Minister S.M. Chandrasena said yesterday. According to the census out of a count of 1,107 baby elephants, 122 …
Sri Lanka is endowed with a total number of 5,879 wild elephants according to the elephant census conducted by the Wild Life Department from August 11 to 14. Agrarian Services and Wild Life Minister S M Chandrasena disclosed this at a ceremony held yesterday to release the census report. Minister …
The Director General of the Wildlife Department of Sri Lanka H.D. Ratnayake says the report of the elephant census conducted in mid-August will be released tomorrow. The report showing statistical values of the elephant census will be released ceremoniously at a function that will be held in the headquarters of …
The results of the first countrywide elephant survey will be released on Friday, a Wildlife Conservation Department (WCD) spokesman told the Daily News yesterday. He said that the expert panel has now completed preliminary data analysis and the data will be officially announced to the public by Wild Life and …
Lisa Wolfe, a veterinarian at Colorado Parks and Wildlife, fed and monitored Rascal on Monday as he walked on the treadmill. And in the same way that the smartphone changed human communications, what might be called the “smart collar” — measuring things that people never could before about how animals …
The state of Alaska filed notice on Friday that it will appeal a federal judge's ruling upholding the listing of polar bears as a threatened species. The state, which maintains that U.S. Endangered Species Act protections are not warranted for polar bears, sued the federal government in 2008 to overturn …
Steps will be taken to minimise elephant deaths due to train accidents with the assistance of the Railway and Wildlife Departments in the Anuradhapura District. Agrarian Services and Wildlife Minister S. M. Chandrasena told The Island yesterday that an analysis on how elephants were killed, showed that it was mostly …
Sri Lanka's veteran environmental lawyer Jagath Gunawardena says the government could not catch wild elephants to be given to cultural pageants as said by the Minister of Wildlife S.M. Chandrasena. Protesting the statement by the Minister that around 180 elephants will be given to be tamed for cultural pageants, a …
A 1993 survey revealed that there are around 2,600 elephants in the country. The Wildlife Department estimates that there are around 5,500 to 6,000 elephants in the country, Agrarian Services and Wildlife Minister S.M. Chandrasena said at a press conference. He said it has been planned to hold an elephant …
Wild horses on the vast rangelands of Wyoming can continue to roam free, for now, after the U.S. government's Bureau of Land Management postponed a planned roundup, horse advocates said on Tuesday. The roundup was due to start on August 16 to reduce horse overpopulation on more than 700,000 acres …
Officials at the Wildlife Department of Sri Lanka say that all national parks in Sri Lanka where elephants roam will be closed on the 13th and 14th of August to facilitate an elephant count. During the scheduled two days visitors will not be permitted in the parks as the field …
LUCKNOW: The sarus census shows that barely five percent of sarus crane population is living in protected areas of the state, while the remaining 95% of the state bird is living outside these areas. Experts believe that it is this population, which needs protection and conservation. The major threat to …
Federal scientists are on the lookout for the Eskimo curlew, as they work to determine if the elusive shorebird last seen two decades ago still exists. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said it is seeking any information about the Eskimo curlew, a tundra-nesting bird once abundant over the skies …
MUMBAI: Rabbits and dogs are the only animals that are multiplying in the city, revealed the latest livestock census released by the Union department of animal husbandry , dairying and fisheries. From the earlier count of 47, which was recorded in 2003, the number of rabbits kept as pets in …
Experts Warn Of Looming Disaster As Census Finds Leopard Numbers Falling & Civet Cat Going Extinct Acensus conducted at the wildlife reserves in the Mumbai region has found that the areas are headed for an ecological disaster, with the number of leopards falling and the civet cat going extinct. The …
