Census/ Habitat Monitoring

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding sinking of Liberian ship off the Kochi coast, Kerala, 27/05/2025

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 …

Students urged to join wildlife census

Forest department has called upon the wildlife enthusiasts to join them in the thrilling experience of wildlife census. The department has especially urged the higher secondary and college students to participate in the exercises. Even the wildlife enthusiasts with background in Zoology/ Botany can be part of one of the …

Tiger census from May 8

BHUBANESWAR: Stage is set for the tiger census to kick off in Orissa. Beginning May 8, the Wildlife Wing will start the first phase of enumeration and hope that the last census outcomes were an aberration, if nothing else. The tiger census will span for three days though an entire …

Census in city to begin from April 15

Chandigarh has been divided into 26 wards; 3,146 officials to collect and compile information Keep all information about you and your living standard, assets and qualification ready

Census in state to begin on May 15

Even as the nationwide census began yesterday, it would start in the state on May 15.The census in the state would be conducted in two phases and more than 60,000 employees of various departments of the state government would be engaged for it.

State's population levels expected to be up by 25%

LUCKNOW: The most populous state in the country is all set to get even more crowded, with officials expecting to see a 25% increase in the state's population levels. With Census 2011, the 15th since 1872, kicking off in various parts of the country, Uttar Pradesh will begin the proceedings …

Monitoring tigers and prey animals of Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India

The Kaziranga National Park in the alluvial floodplains of Assam is an important tiger habitat in the country and perhaps the only viable source population left in the entire Northeast India. Even before it became a tiger reserve (notified in 2007), tiger conservation was on under the rhino as a …

Sarus census may bring good news

Lucknow: The Forest department officials at Shahjahanpur are awaiting the sarus count eagerly. They are confident that their number in the district is certain to exceed those in Etawah and Mainpuri, accounting for the maximum number of Uttar Pradesh

Lion census in Gir sanctuary from April 24

Rajkot: Gujarat state forest department is getting ready for lion census to be conducted from April 24 next month in Gir sanctuary in Junagadh district. Nearly 1,500 officials will be deployed for the exercise, conducted every five years for a headcount of Asiatic lions at Gir, sources from the department …

Radio collar fitted to Sunderbans tigress falls off

Ananya Dutta It was fastened less than two weeks ago Concerns raised over success of the initiative KOLKATA: Animal instinct seems to have won over human intervention in one particular case as a pair of tigers detached the radio-collar fastened onto a tigress less than two weeks ago by officials …

Conduct animal census on scientific basis: Kerkar

Environmentalist, Rajendra Kerkar has said that the proposed animal census in state

In 2 years, 72 lions die in Gir sanctuary

GANDHINAGAR: Narendra Modi says Asiatic lions are the pride of Gujarat and he won't part with them. But the animals seem to be endangered in their sole habitat. The state government has admitted that 72 lions died in the Gir sanctuary in the past two years. Of them, one was …

Tiger roar fading in Orissa

Mindless Mining, Industrialization Leading To Largescale Destruction Of Forests Spell Doom For Big Cats Rajaram Satapathy | TNN Even as the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) prepares to launch a special tiger census, the news has failed to cheer environmentalists in Orissa. They said regardless of the outcome, the future …

Migratory bird count falls sharply in Delhi

Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar Paradise lost?: Okhla Bird Sanctuary is the only major habitat that still attracts a large number of migratory water birds though their number has gone down this year. NEW DELHI: With the Asian Water Bird Census-2010 in Delhi revealing a marked fall in the arrival of migratory …

On the trail, for the record

2010 0 010 tiger census in the Kalakkad-Mundanthurai The first phase of the 20 k Tiger Reserve has begun and volunteers are streaming in, notes Shobha Menon Involving students in the tiger census has proved a remarkable awareness exercise to reach out to the community and encourage their participation in …

Tiger census begins in Sunderbans

The much-awaited tiger census in the Sunderbans, where DNA sampling would be made for the first time to establish the number of big cats, began on Thursday. Tiger scat will be collected for DNA sampling which is a foolproof method to establish their number, Field Director of Sunderbans Tiger Reserve …

Orissa to get fair deal in latest tiger census

BHUBANESWAR: The annual tiger enumeration is set to commence in March and this time around, camera trap technique will not be the only method to be used to count the big cats. The last enumeration at Similipal where camera trap methodology was used and yielded in a low count had …

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