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: The forest and wildlife officials are taking help of GPS (Global Positioning System) to count the crocodiles during the week-long annual salt-water crocodile census in the rivers, creeks and other water bodies within the Bhitarkanika National Park. The census, which began on January 12, will continue till January 18.
OUR CORRESPONDENT habitat under threat: A file picture of a rhino in Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary Alipurduar Jan. 11: The foresters are upbeat about the increasing number of the Indian one-horned rhinoceros in the Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary but what is a source of worry for them is the deteriorating state of …
Tribune News Service Mandi, January 8 Information obtained under the Right to Information (RTI) Act has exposed discrepancies in the census report of 2001 as regards Dhar Kalwad village in the Shiva Thana gram panchayat in the district. The report showed there were just five members of the SC category …
At the beginning of this year, a ground-breaking, new, and scientific tiger census, which took two years to complete, announced that there were 1,411 wild tigers left in India. By November, the Government had admitted that of that number, 14 tigers had been poached this year. The figure actually may …
Surveys, censuses and mist-netting were carried out during 1976-1977, 1990-1994 and 2001-2008 to enumerate the land birds of Sriharikota Island, Southern India. A total of 125 species of land birds were recorded comprising of 70 residents, 33 winter migrants and 12 seasonal migrants; the status of another 10 species is …
Hangul (Cervus elaphus hanglu) is an endangered cervid restricted to the Kashmir valley. At present, a demographically viable population of Hangul occurs only in Dachigam National Park. Between March 04 and 06, 2004, the Hangul population estimation exercise was carried out at a landscape level in central and southern divisions …
- Foresters find 25-30 samples of scat in five-day-long census Foresters have found 25-30 samples of tiger faeces in the Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary during the five-day long census that ended yesterday. The faeces or scat is the second most conclusive evidence after direct sighting to confirm the presence of big …
BARIPADA: The pug mark-based census will be carried out in the Simlipal Tiger Reserve (STR) from January 5 to 10. This STR is home to 101 Royal Bengal tigers and 127 leopards as per the 2004 census. Pug mark-based headcount of the big cats has been directed by Principal Chief …
Foresters at the tiger census in Neora Valley. (Biplab Basak) Siliguri, Dec. 2: Foresters associated with the tiger census at Neora Valley National Park have completed field work and are now busy compiling data.
Forest officials have started the tiger census with renewed vigour in Neora Valley Sanctuary, spanning over 113 sq km area in north Bengal. The census, which began from November 20, will end on Novemeber 25. A total of 33 teams, comprising both government and NGO representatives, are conducting the survey.
Alipurduar MP Joachim Baxla looks at a monkey that was injured by a vehicle on NH31C on Sunday. Baxla informed foresters and vets from Rajabhatkhawa started treatment to save the animal. Pictures by Biplab Basak and Anirban Choudhury Alipurduar, Nov. 16: An
A city of brittle stars off the coast of New Zealand, an Antarctic expressway where octopuses ride along in a flow of extra salty water and a carpet of tiny crustaceans on the Gulf of Mexico sea floor are among the wonders discovered by researchers compiling a massive census of …
The latest count of the greater adjutant stork, called hargila in Assamese, has shown a slight improvement in the city this year with an estimation of 149 from an all-time low of 118 last year (2007). The distressing thing, however, is that the bird
BHUBANESWAR: The State Forest Department and Dehra Dun-based Wildlife Institute of India (WII) may have a huge difference of opinion over exact number of tigers in the State, but the agencies are unanimous over presence of melanistic tigers in Similipal. Even as the State and WII continue to be at …
Cities are as old as settled human history. This is abundantly clear in South Asia, with Harappa and Mohenjodaro being early indigenous examples and Varanasi representing a living embodiment of this tradition. In contrast, however, pervasive, large-scale urbanisation is a very recent phenomenon. Estimates put the total urban population of …
K.S. Sudhi KOCHI: Increase in tiger density has been reported from the Periyar Tiger Reserve (PTR) following the recounting of tiger population in the reserve. According to a recent study conducted by the Reserve and the Periyar Foundation, the tiger density of the reserve is 24 tigers in 640 sq. …
Bangalore, DHNS: To ensure flawless counting and monitoring of tigers in the wild, the Wildlife Conservation Society- India Project and Trust for Environment Education have come out with a video training module. The video guide
CHENNAI: The elephant population in the State is reasonably stable, according to R. Sukumar, professor and chairman of the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Prof. Sukumar, who was here recently, told The Hindu that in the past few years, the incidence of poaching had come down …
