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 …
Manas Dasgupta GANDHINAGAR: The four-day exercise to count the number of Asiatic Lions at its only abode in the Gir forest in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat, concluded on Tuesday. Officials engaged in the census, refused to be drawn into the number game till all reports were cross-checked and tabulations …
Ahmedabad: No less than 70 air-conditioned cars have been hired by the forest department for the officials during the fourday census which concluded on Tuesday. Sources in the department said that the forest department was estimating an expenditure of 25 lakh for the census. Sources said that during census the …
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: It was true night safari inside Gir. Census 2010 of the rare Asiatic lions at Gir sanctuary has proved to be a once-in-alifetime experience for many. Kishore Kotecha, a volunteer who was part of the expedition in the photographer category, recalls his experience during the …
Countdown:An elephant and its calf in Bandipur National Park near Mysore. Bangalore: The Karnataka State Forest Department is gearing up for a two-day elephant census that will be conducted across most of the State's national parks and sanctuaries on May 15 and 16. The census will be simultaneously carried out …
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: Loud cheers resounded in a portion of Gir sanctuary as children started clicking photographs. This was when a pride of lions was spotted during the ongoing census. You might wonder as to what were children doing at the spot. Well, the lion census has actually …
Many Sightings In First Round Have Fuelled Expectations Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: It was 1 am, the beat guard inside the sanctuary heard a lion
Ahmedabad: Keeping in view the scorching heat that enumerators will have to encounter during the lion census, the forest department is taking all precautions. It will include a team of doctors and a constant supply of drinking water, juices and biscuits for the volunteers participating in the four-day event beginning …
On the eve of census of the Asiatic lion population in Gir forest beginning later this week, the State wildlife officials are confident that the new, modern methods adopted this time would reduce the margin of counting errors. The State officials are also optimistic that the number of the big …
In the backdrop of concerns regarding the dwindling number of tigers in the country, the ongoing tiger census has brought some more alarming news from Bihar. At the Valmiki Tiger Reserve
Elephant population is on the rise in Tamil Nadu even as it is on the decline in neighbouring Kerala and Karnataka. The population of wild elephants in Tamil Nadu was 2,307 in 1993, which touched 2,971 in 1997 and 3,052 in 2002. Two years ago the number of wild elephants …
A non-government society for bio-diversity conservation, Aaranyak, has found that the sprawling Kaziranga National Park (KNP) in Assam has 32 highly-endangered tigers per 100 sq km area within the park and the figure is much more as compared to 20 in the Corbett National Park. Tiger density in other reserves …
The first phase of the head count (consus) in Uttar Pradesh is scheduled begin from next month in which biometrics data of people over 15 years of age would be collected between May 16 and June 30. The schedule of the census was prepared in a high-level meeting headed by …
Jamshedpur: As many as 150 forest officials, including guards, rangers and assistant conservators, today participated in a training programme to prepare them for the forthcoming wildlife census in the state. Field director of Palamau tiger project, Manoj Singh, taught the participants how to count both herbivorous and carnivorous animals in …
KORAPUT: The villagers of Sibaguda under Konga gram panchayat in Jeypore block have threatened not to cooperate with the census enumerators till their demands are conceded. They alleged that the village had seen several elections and census enumerations in the name of development but it lacks even basic amenities till …
The Central government is introducing a new software to make tiger monitoring more accurate, even as the first phase of India's comprehensive tiger census showed some
Jairam Ramesh Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh today said preliminary reports from the second nationwide tiger census, currently underway, were very encouraging and that Kaziranga in Assam could show an increase in tiger density. Evidence of the endangered Indian tiger had been found even in the Naxal-dominated reserve areas, which he …
