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 …
KENDRAPARA: As many as 1610 estuarine crocodiles, including three reptiles measuring more than 20 feet, were sighted by the Forest officials in the water bodies of Bhitarakanika National Park during the week-long census, said Prasanna Kumar Behera, DFO, Bhitarkanika National Park. The census report indicates that the population of the …
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: The first lion census after the poaching incidents of 2007, will be held in the peak of summer in April this year and for the first time will cover at least four districts, the area estimated as the lion spread since the last census of …
Sri Lanka will conduct its 14th census on population in 2011, the Department of Census and Statistics says. The 13th census of the series was conducted on the 17th of July 2001. According Director General of the Department Mrs. Suranjana Vidyaratne, the mapping of land is now being conducted on …
Seventeen tiger states have, for the first time, simultaneously launched a massive year-long wildlife census to come up with an accurate estimate of the tiger population in the country. The exercise christened
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Sasan (Gir): With the lion census due this year, the forest department in coordination with the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) will study the corridor movement of the lions. Earlier, the big cats were confined to the areas in and around Sasan and Dhari only, but …
The preparations for the population census 2011 have begun with the Centre deciding to create the National Population Register (NPR) which would contain information on specific data items for each and every individual in the country. The preparation of NPR is a unique and additional feature of Census 2011, when …
Strong demands for effective efforts in the field of tiger conservation were raised from all around amid the intermittent big cat mortalities in Madhya Pradesh throughout the year. Panna National Park was in the limelight throughout the year with the wipeout of big cats and the subsequent efforts to revive …
Natural breeding of gharyals in the Chambal river has come as a ray of hope after the existence of the species was endangered with more than 100 of them dying due to a toxic chemical from end of 2007 to early 2008. The actual number of ghariyals is still unclear …
Forest department is ready to conduct census of tigers in Bhadra Reserve Forest under Tiger Protection project. The cenus will be carried out with the help of
There are serious question marks on the Tiger State tag of Madhya Pradesh as the State gears up for a fresh tiger census in January next year. During the last nationwide tiger census, the State had a slender margin over its nearest rival, Karnataka, for the special tag. The proposed …
Bringing cheer to conservationists and animal lovers, a census has found four to five highly endangered snow leopards on Kibber plateau in Himachal's Lahaul Spiti district. The census, undertaken as part of the centrally sponsored project for conservation of snow leopard being implemented by NGO National Conservation Foundation (NCF), used …
Dec. 3: Forest authorities are going to monitor tigers, their co-predators, prey and their habitats in the forests spread over the Godavari districts of Rajahmundry circle as part of a national exercise scheduled to be taken up under the supervision of the Wildlife Institute of India from January 20 to …
India is among the few countries that still have the opportunity to nurture the health of their tiger populations. But estimating the number of tigers in the wild was a serious challenge for the Ministry of Environment and Forests until recently. Last year, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) acknowledged …
In this study, evaluation of tiger habitat in Corbett Tiger reserve is carried out using remote sensing, ground and other ancillary sources and is integrated using GIS using multi-criteria model. The results indicated that sal, mixed sal, miscellaneous forest, plantation, grassland, agriculture and scrub land are the major land use/land …
This Studbook is a part of the Central Zoo Authority, New Delhi, assignment to the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, for the compilation and publication of studbooks of selected endangered species of wild animals in Indian zoos. The present studbook compiles and analyses data for the Indian zoos.
How many tigers does India have? According to Union environment Jairam Ramesh, there are 1,411 big cats in the country with the maximum number, 300, being in Madhya Pradesh. Giving this number in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, Mr Ramesh said that based on the findings of the 2008, all …
The West Bengal government for the first time will conduct tiger census through DNA sampling of the animal's scat in Sunderbans in January next year. Tiger censusTill now, pug marks were used to count the tigers, but there was always controversy regarding the veracity of the marks. During the 2006 …
The West Bengal government for the first time will conduct tiger census through DNA sampling of the animal's scat in Sunderbans in January next year. Till now, pug marks were used to count the tigers, but there was always controversy regarding the veracity. During the 2006 census, the state government …
