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 …
Jorhat, Jan. 6: The Assam forest department will conduct a five-day statewide elephant census in the last week of February. The census was scheduled to be held from November 22 to 27 last year but had to be postponed as many areas of Kaziranga National Park were inaccessible. Assam
The cats in your para may be multiplying but at least one of the four cat species found in and around Calcutta is vanishing along with the wetlands the animals thrive on. Wildlife specialists have no clue about the population of the fast-disappearing fishing cats, which have been spotted in …
KOCHI: The rediscovery of a Jurassic shrimp, thought to have been extinct 50 million years ago, and a living Caribbean fossil that flourished worldwide some 100 million years, are some of the interesting finds of the recently concluded first census of marine life. The census revealed the richness of marine …
Here we describe the bird community of Shingba Rhododendron sanctuary, a high altitude protected area (> 3200 m) and an Important Bird Area (IBA) in Sikkim in the Eastern Himalaya, India. Altogether 332 points were sampled using a point count method.
Pench National Park is ushering scientific and standardised way of wildlife census in the State by working on the process with the help of special software that analyses census data accurately. The international acceptance of this software makes the process significant. The Pench administration, which has been working on this …
Jalpaiguri, Nov. 24: The elephant census has been extended to the Sakam forest at the edge of Neora Valley National Park this time. For the past two years, jumbos had been spotted using the 800-foot-high patch of land in Neora as their corridor. This morning, on the first day of …
India, which is abode to half of the world's total big cat population in the wild, will declare its first preliminary data on the ongoing tiger census ahead of the global meet on the endangered species in Russia next week. "By the next few days we will declare the first …
Jalpaiguri, Nov. 19: A three-day elephant census next week will focus on spotting injured animals alongside counting their numbers in the forests lying between the Mahananda wildlife sanctuary in the Terai and the Sankosh end of the Buxa Tiger Reserve in the Dooars. Forest department sources said one of the …
Jorhat, Nov. 10: The forest department of Assam will conduct a statewide elephant census from November 22. The five-day massive exercise will be conducted on foot and on elephant back. A training programme for divisional forest officers of wildlife and territorial departments will be held at the Assam state zoo …
KOLLAM: The marine species living on earth may number between 1 million and 1.4 million, excluding microbes, according to a decade-long Census of Marine Life, the largest global research programme on marine biodiversity. The findings of the 2000-10 census were released on Monday. The census resulted in the discovery and …
Tiger conservation crisis has been compounded by the inability to precisely estimate and monitor tiger populations in India. The paper presents a historical review of the past approaches and current anomalies, and suggests future possibilities for meaningful evaluation of the status of tiger populations using the best of both the …
P. Oppili and B. Aravind Kumar CHENNAI: A total of 230 species of birds has been recorded at Sathyamangalam Forest division by a bird survey. The first ever bird survey in the division, funded jointly by Tamil Nadu Forest Department and Care Earth, a Chennai-based biodiversity research organisation, was taken …
We had a report from our Kochi office the other day on the tree census in the city, one of many finally being undertaken by civic bodies through the country. Common to all these is a stress on magnitudes -total number, zone-wise breakdown, specie-wise numbers. It might be a better …
Rajendra Sharma | TNN Sariska: It is a chance for the Sariska tiger reserve to regain its lost glory. A four-member team of experts are currently on a survey of the tiger reserve in order to rate it among other tiger reserves in the country. The four-member team which arrived …
THE massive exercise of compiling the livestock data from all the states and union territories is in its final stages, joint commissioner (poultry), department of animal husbandry, dairying and fisheries, government of India, P K Shukla said here on Thursday. Speaking to reporters after addressing the 27th annual conference and …
KOCHI: The tree census has revealed that there are 6,443 trees in public places in the Kochi Corporation. The register containing the details of the tree census titled
Pachauri has pointed out that India has been taking steps to curb its carbon emissions. On 1 April 2010, India launched its mega-census, which aims to document biometric details of every person aged above 15 years. This mega-census will be the largest registration exercise in human history and will consume …
Vasudha Venugopal CHENNAI: The satellite telemetry tagging of a juvenile green turtle was carried out here on Sunday morning. The turtle, belonging to a rare species, was found entangled in a net in a fishing village in Chennai four months ago. Now, she goes back to the seas with technology …
Mainpuri Has Maximum Number, Dudhwa NoneNeha Shukla | TNNLucknow: If result of the sarus census is any indication, the bird is making a comeback to its home state. The figures of the first-ever
