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 …

Poachers posing threat to Orang National Park

ORANG: Though the Forest department has initiated every possible measure to save the forest areas of the State including the sanctuaries by implementing Forest Act and forming various committees, etc., yet the problems of poachers and encroachment by the suspected Bangladeshi nationals, etc., have been posing a serious threat to …

Experts study cheetah habitat

Narayan Bareth Sept. 9: Wildlife experts from India and abroad have shortlisted Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat to study the possibilities of reintroducing the cheetah. The experts assembled at Gajner, near Bikaner, on Wednesday and held a long discussion in view of reintroducing the cheetah In India. Chhattisgarh is also …

70,000 avian species in Bhitarkanika heronry

KENDRAPARA: As many as 70,000 birds of various species were spotted in the Bagagahan heronry during the four-day bird census in the Bhitarkanika National Park recently. Park DFO Prasan Kumar Behera said high-tech Global Positioning System (GPS) was used for counting and sampling the avian species. The census was carried …

Primates thrive in Gibbon Sanctuary

The Hollongapar Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary which shelters an incredible seven species of primates

Govt to involve NGOs in tiger census process

M Madhusudan | New Delhi The census (2009-10) for estimating the population of tigers in the country will kick off in November this year. But amid widespread concern over their dwindling numbers and allegations of

Park has highest density of tigers

MANOJ ANAND Aug. 20: The initial report of the tiger census through camera trapping in Assam

Forest officials kept eyes tightly shut

When it was found there were no tigers in the Panna Tiger Reserve, P K Sen was called to join the government special investigation team. Former head of Project Tiger, he told Sumana Narayanan the department

Faecal signs

Tiger faeces give an estimate of its population researchers from Bengaluru extracted dna from tigers

Tiger, tiger, still burning bright?

- 45 scat samples sent to Hyderabad to freeze on number of big cats in Palamau The state forest department has finally adopted a foolproof method to count the number of tigers in Jharkhand. It has collected 45 samples of droppings and sent it over to the Centre for Cellular …

Now, Delhi to count its trees

Census Will Also Cover Variety And Distribution Pattern New Delhi: For the first time ever, Delhi is going to have a tree census. It will not just estimate how many trees the city

Leopard population up

JORHAT, Aug 5: The sharp increase of leopards in the last one decade in the district has proved conservation efforts successful but in the absence of a concrete project to sustain and help in further multiplication, the wild cats are increasingly coming into conflict with man with the former losing …

Orissas denial exposed, tiger numbers down by half

Despite an expenditure of a little over Rs 10 crore in the last five years by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), over 40 per cent of the tigers in Simlipal Tiger Reserve seems to have vanished. The Orissa government, which spent last year denying the Wildlife Institute of India …

Wildlife activists fear drop in elephant sex ratio

D Daniel Raj WILDLIFE activists fear that the loss of male pachyderms of critical age group to mishaps, especially on the railway tracks here, can pose a threat to the elephant sex ratio in the state, which has been gradually improving recently. In the past two months, two tuskers were …

No more pugmark-tracking for tiger count

New Delhi: Environment and forest minister Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday told Rajya Sabha that the old system of tiger census through pugmarks was

Microchips to track straying tigers

Ananya Dutta Kolkata: The big cats of the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve that stray into inhabited areas will be tracked with the help of an electronic microchip implanted in their bodies, Reserve Director N.C. Bahuguna said here on Thursday. A pregnant tigress, captured by employees of the reserve on Tuesday night, …

Birds of a feather....lost together!

Like many species of flora and fauna, many avifauna too are endangered, especially due to habitat loss. While the International Conference on Hornbills exchange news, welcome ideas and make efforts towards their conservation by various means through greater networking possibilities today, there are birds which birders are still trying to …

Boom time in tiger land

Sunny Sebastian JAIPUR: Amid all the gloom on the tiger conservation front elsewhere in the country there is reason for cheer at Rajasthan

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