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 …
Lucknow: The forest department is planning to take up the census of vultures in state with an aim to offer the endangered natural scavengers the needed protection. The department, however, is not alone to have thought about the cause. A few conservationists would also join in the effort. The population …
If the number of species that live on land is not fully known, our knowledge of marine life diversity is much less. Even the scanty information available is not easily accessible. The Census of Marine Life (COML), a decade-long initiative involving 2,700 scientists from 80 countries, the largest-ever collaboration of …
Leo Hickman Earlier this week, the census of marine life was published, concluding that there are more than 230,000 species in our oceans. And for every marine species known to science, at least four have yet to be discovered.For the layperson, two questions spring to mind. First, how on earth …
ALOK JHA It has been the biggest and most comprehensive attempt ever to answer that age-old question: how many fish are there in the sea?Published on 2 August, a 10-year study of the diversity, distribution and abundance of life in the world's oceans, the Census of Marine Life (COML), estimates …
Indian wild ass, an equid species inhabits the saline-arid region of the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat. The species is increasingly threatened by developmental activities leading to habitat loss and fragmentation. It is currently listed as endangered in the IUCN red list of threatened species and in Schedule I of …
Despite the tiger population dwindling worldwide, some good news is flowing in from Chitwan National Park (CNP) where the number of adult tigers rose to 125, a jump of 34, as compared to a count conducted about two years ago. Altogether there are 155 adult tigers in the country now, …
MUMBAI: The first phase of the census drive came to an end on Thursday. The enumerators covered about 43 lakh homes, of which 2.41 lakh (5.5%) odd homes were found locked, and therefore, missed being counted. "We have finished covering all the houses. Even shops were included in this phase …
Sixty-nine vultures and 22 vulture nests are left in Girnar Wildlife Sanctuary in Junagadh district of Gujarat, revealed a state-wide census of vultures in the last week of May.Activists hope the finding will derail building a ropeway through the sanctuary for pilgrims visiting the Jain temples atop Girnar mountains.
Ananya Dutta KOLKATA: Radio collars, meant for tracking the behaviour of tigers in the Sunderbans as part of the ongoing census, will be custom-made. For, the big cats here
The National Census kicked off on April 1, with a difference. This time the census has gone beyond gathering demographic and economic information; it is collecting data on ownership of mobile phones, computers, internet connection, TV sets, cars and radios. The census team will then go a step further and …
1500 AD The Spanish explorer Joao de Barros wrote about Chinese merchants stamping children’s palm prints and footprints on paper with ink to distinguish one youngster from another.JULY 1858 William Herschel, a British civil servant in Hooghly district, obtained the palm impression of one Rajyadhar Konai as part of a …
Count Is Expected To Register A Drop Of 35 Per Cent Over Last Census Figure Of 1,431 Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: The vulture count in the state may for the first time plummet to three digits, registering a drop of over 35 per cent over the last count in …
We recently had a visit from a couple of government schoolteachers. They were in a foul mood. This was their third visit to our house, and on earlier two occasions the house was locked.
M.T. Shiva Kumar Bangalore: To address the intractable human-animal conflict and to monitor the movement of rogue elephants, the Karnataka Forest Department has begun radio collaring them. For the first time in the State, the department successfully fitted radio collars onto two pachyderms in Hassan on Monday. The department plans …
