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 …
The Centre has planned to start a massive exercise of counting country's elephants next month. The entire process is expected to take six-seven months and final census report will be released in March-April next year. The environment ministry has called a meeting of stakeholders on July 15 before beginning the …
NAINITAL: Uttarakhand forest department officials have spotted 32 tigers in the Terai-East division of Kumaon for the first time, giving conservationists a reason to rejoice. The 32 tigers identified on camera traps, whose existence was hitherto unknown, will boost the number of the striped beasts in the state. According to …
Bhubaneswar: The wildlife wing of the forest department seems clueless about the deaths of 39 elephants even months after their carcasses were found. Sources said at least 39 elephants died within a span of 14 months between April 2015 and June 12, 2016. But the forest department could not explain …
Kendrapada: Altogether 2,470 weaver birds were spotted in the state during a one-day census carried out by the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) with the help of Wild Odisha and Kalinga Birds-Odisha Birds. Around 160 bird watchers, ornithologists, nature lovers and students were involved in the census across the state. …
AHMEDABAD: Loss of Ahmedabad had turned to be beneficial for Surendranagar district. Surendranagar which had recorded only four vultures in 2012 recorded 88 vultures in 2016, while Ahmedabad district and city which the number of vultures has come down to 45 in 2016 from the 126 that was there in …
The endangered hangul , also known as Kashmir deer , is in the throes of extinction, largely because of human intrusions and domestic livestock grazing at its only habitat here. Wildlife experts and activists claim they have been raising the alarm, calling for stringent measures to check human intrusions at …
Chennai: The last thing N Raveendran, a Madurai-based naturalist, expected to see when he participated in the vulture census in the forests of the Nilgiris was a Himalayan griffon vulture. He sent a photograph he took of the juvenile specimen to experts, who confirmed that the bird was indeed a …
Bhubaneswar: A survey conducted by the state government in 46 forest and wildlife divisions has pegged the population of Royal Bengal Tigers at 40. The government took up the tiger estimation nearly one and a half years after the release of National Tiger Conservation Authority's (NTCA's) all-India tiger estimation report, …
Coimbatore: The Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) will conduct a pre-monsoon wildlife census this month and have invited NGOs, volunteers from colleges and environmentalists to take part in it to ensure a transparent process. It will be held from May 23 to May 30, said officials. The officials said that they …
Ahmedabad: The biennial vulture census will take place in the state on May 28-29. Bird and wildlife enthusiasts are extremely interested in the census as it is taking place after four years from 2012, as the government had skipped the census expected in 2014. The vulture census 2016 will be …
This was the first country-wide citizen science activity on this scale on natural history in India. A quarter century of ornithological observations of wetland birds of Kerala come with a mixed bag of joy and despair for birders. At a time when the wetlands of the State are facing multi-pronged …
There has been a 30 per cent rise in the tiger population in the country from 2010 to 2014, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. “The third country wide assessment of the status of tigers, co-predators and their prey, using the refined methodology has shown a country wide 30 per …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Census of Animals, 26/04/2016. Wild animal census of iconic species like Tiger, Elephant, Rhino and Lions are carried out by the respective State/UT Governments. However, at the national level, Tiger census is carried out periodically. As per the latest census, the estimated population of …
A group of tiger biologists from India, USA, UK and Russia have debunked a report which claimed that the world’s wild tiger population is on the rise. “We do not find this report and its implications scientifically convincing,” said a statement issued by four tiger biologists — Dr K. Ullas …
The formal launch of the honey bee census by schoolchildren in the city will occur on Tuesday at the Maharani Gayatri Devi Girls' School. This census is part of an effort by conservationists to assess the status of bees and their impact on local landscape. As part of the census, …
For the first time in a 100 years, there has been an increase in the global population of wild tigers with the number revised to 3,890 in 2016 as compared to about 3,200 six years ago, as per the WWF and the Global Tiger Forum. This comes a day before …
The world's count of wild tigers roaming forests from Russia to Vietnam has gone up for the first time in more than a century, with 3,890 counted by conservation groups and national governments in the latest global census, wildlife conservation groups said on Monday. The tally marks a turnaround from …
The world’s count of wild tigers roaming forests from Russia to Vietnam has gone up for the first time in more than a century, with some 3,890 counted by conservation groups and national governments in the latest global census, wildlife conservation groups said Monday. The tally marks a turnaround from …
The population of the world's largest primate, Grauer's gorilla, found only in the conflict-plagued Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), declined calamitously in 20 years according to a report co-authored by a Smithsonian scientist and published by the Wildlife Conservation Society, Flora and Fauna International and the Congolese Institute for …
A recent aerial survey of Zambia’s elephant population shows that anti-poaching efforts are having a positive impact on the country’s national parks. The Zambia Department of National Parks and Wildlife participated in the Great Elephant Survey which included 20 countries across the continent. It was the first pan-African elephant census …
