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 …
Sasan (Junagadh district): Gujarat's pride has become substantial as lion numbers in Gir have crossed the 500 mark to 523, registering a robust growth rate of 27%. The royal beasts have also expanded their territory by a good 109%. Interestingly, the tiger count which was announced last year after the …
The lion population had risen from 411 in 2010 to 523 in 2015, Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel said, quoting the findings of the latest lion census. Gir forest in the western state of Gujarat is the only home to Asiatic lions. Once widespread in Gujarat, their numbers shrank to …
According to 2015 census, there are 109 male, 201 female and 213 sub-adult lions in the wilderness of these four districts. Even as the Supreme Court of Indian has ordered trans location of endangered Asiatic lions from Gir forest in Gujarat to Madhya Pradesh in best interest of species, the …
KATHMANDU, MAY 06 - Nepal is now home to 645 endangered one-horned rhinoceros. That number represents an increase of 111 rhinos from 2011, according to the findings of a nation-wide rhino count released on Tuesday. A month-long rhino count taken across the rhino habitats in the country—at Chitwan National Park …
TANZANIA National Parks (Tanapa) has dismissed as unfounded reports by a UK based online News Network, claiming that the number of elephants has decreased in Ruaha National Park from 8,500 to 4,200. Tanapa’s Head of Communications, Mr Paschal Shelutete, in a press statement refuted the April 23 reports, saying that …
Niranjan Savani (39), a dentist in Pennsylvania, has taken urgent leave from work to come to India for two weeks. Not for any pressing personal engagement but to engage himself in the matters of heart — to take part in the four-day lion census beginning May 2. Like Savani, many …
Paper questions the methodology used by govt to show 30% rise in tiger population The debate over the 30% rise in the number of India's tigers -as estimated in the latest national tiger census -has taken a new turn.Days after a research paper was published in an international scientific journal, …
Environment minister Prakash Javadekar's claim that all's well with the country's rhinoceros population is only half the story. While the population of the onehorned rhinoceros is on the rise -2,401 at the most recent count undertaken in March -instances of poaching too have increased, with nine rhinos being killed by …
CHITWAN: Officials and experts have started counting one-horned rhinoceros in Parsa from today. The main objective of the project is to ascertain the exact population of rhinos potential threats to them. The last rhino census was conducted in 2011. Minister for Soil Conservation and Forest Mahesh Acharya today inaugurated the …
The Odisha government has courted controversy by claiming that the number of tigers in the state is around 60. The All India Tiger Estimation Report, 2014, released in January 2015, reported a fall in Odisha's tiger population to 28 from 32 in 2010 and 45 in 2006. "We are yet …
The much awaited Asiatic Lion census, covering one of the biggest ever area in its census will cover over 1500 villages around the sanctuary. The nine month long exercise which began since June last year has revealed that the lions have found new homes in around 1500 villages in eight …
Rhino population in Kaziranga National Park has registered an increase of 72 even as 54 pachyderms were poached at the world heritage site since 2013. According to the latest rhino census,the animal population has been estimated to be 2,401 in Kaziranga National Park (KNP) while the figure was 2,329 after …
Jorhat: The rhino census in Kaziranga National Park will begin with a four-day programme from March 24. Divisional forest officer (Kaziranga) S K Seal Sharma said, "The census will start on March 24 in all the five ranges — Kohora, Bagori, Burapahar, Agoratoli and Biswanath Ghat — and the reports …
Reigniting the debate over India's tiger census, which has shown a 30% rise in the big cat's population in four years, a British-Indian team of scientists has said the exercise mostly likely suffers from a measuring error — a finding rebuffed by experts involved in the census exercise. At the …
Reports that India’s tiger population has risen by a third in four years are based on an unreliable count method says a new Oxford study The accuracy of a recent census suggesting India’s tigers have increased by a third has been called into question by a new study. The Indian …
Recently, a video was captured in China that showed a family of tigers in an area that has not been inhabited by the large cats for more than 65 years. Now, though, scientists have called the rise of the tiger population into question by pointing out flaws in a method …
Here is some good news for wildlife enthusiasts. Much like the Asiatic lions, the wild ass population in Gujarat has shot up to 4451, a jump of 454. This rather encouraging data was revealed in the 2015 wild ass census. The census also revealed another interesting facet — the growing …
Wildlife enthusiasts were jubilant when the results of the tiger survey were announced recently. Officially, big cat population in the country went up from 1,706 in 2010 to 2,226 in 2014. These results have been interpreted to mean that conservation efforts have been a huge success. But some experts caution …
Bokaro: Migration of Siberian birds to dams and water reservoirs in the state during winter has no bearing in reality. The myth was busted in the bird census, being conducted in Jharkhand for the first time ever. The state never served as a home to Siberian birds. It always hosted …
Even as news of a staggering 30 per cent increase in India’s endangered tiger population is celebrated the world over, the survey methodology has drawn criticism from ecologist Ullas Karanth, director of the Centre for Wildlife Studies, one of the NGOs involved in the nationwide exercise. The ‘double sampling’ approach …
