Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News item titled "the last feral horses in India" appearing in Mongabay dated 05.11.2024 dated 16/12/2024. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled "The Last Feral Horses in India" appearing in Mongabay dated November …
The Government on Monday blamed the shortage of adequate manpower for the inaction against poachers of endangered species of wildlife and admitted it has to depend on States for the job. This is despite that CBI has been empowered to apprehend and prosecute wildlife offenders. “Unfortunately, there is a major …
LUCKNOW: With 90% of the ghariyal hatchlings born during June surviving at the ghariyal rehabilitation centre in Kukrail, the chances of ghariyal population declining in the centre remains a remote possibility, even as the centre braces to release its two-year old ghariyal population in the wild this winter. More than …
Dhubri, Oct. 10: An NGO working for the preservation and protection of forests and environment has demanded vulture habitat centre status for Rajapara reserve forest. According to Aranya Suraksha Samiti, the NGO, Rajapara is the largest natural habitat of the birds after the vulture captive breeding centre at Rani reserve …
Despite drawing severe flak on the translocation of gaurs the MP Forest Department is going ahead with the similar process of shifting barasingha from Kanha to Satpura and few animals from Van Vihar to some favourable destination, writes Vivek Trivedi Madhya Pradesh might be rich in forests and wildlife but …
With a view to formulating an action plan for rehabilitating Cheetah, an extinct species, in Kuno Sanctuary in Sheopur district, a team of national and international experts of Cheetah visited the Sanctuary between August 6 and 9, 2011. The team comprised Dr. Lorry Marker, Executive Director of Cheetah Conservation Fund …
A mock parliamentary debate on the feasibility of commercial deer farming in Bangladesh will be held at the Eastern University auditorium in the capital today. Following the government
An expert committee will now determine the habitats Stung by the criticism of forest rights activists, wildlife activists and scientists regarding its initial draft guidelines for determining critical wildlife habitats issued in February, the Environment Ministry has now come out with a revised version. The Ministry was forced to withdraw …
A common Bible story says Jesus fed 5,000 people with five loaves and two fish, which scholars surmise were tilapia. But at the Aquafinca fish farm here, a modern miracle takes place daily: Tens of thousands of beefy, flapping tilapia are hauled out of teeming cages on Lake Yojoa, converted …
Mumbai: It has become fashionable these days for the elite to adopt an animal of their choice from the zoo. To cash in on the fad, zoos across the country are introducing animal adoption schemes, and the zoo in Aurangabad is the latest to jump onto the bandwagon. In quick …
Rhinos, one of world's most endangered animals, are being farmed on Chinese wildlife reserves to harvest their horns for medicinal purposes, a report by international conservation monitors has claimed. The monitors have found that China has imported 141 live white rhinos from South Africa since 2000, far more than is …
Nainital Zoo officials have approached the higher authorities to procure a pair of Siberian tiger and tigress as the lone Siberian tiger in the zoo has almost completed its average life expectancy age. According to zoo incharge Manoj Shah, there are only two Siberian tigers in India. Other than Nainital …
The ambitious tiger revival plan at Panna National Park might be moving ahead amid hiccups since its inception early last year, but wildlife experts like World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-India secretary general Ravi Singh, are very much upbeat about the project. Singh has stated that all possible efforts were being taken …
With a view to protect and increase the population of peacock and chinkara in Haryana, the State Government has chalked out an ambitious plan to set up an integrated project for their conservation and breeding that would be developed over 70 acres of land. Finance and Environment Minister Captain Ajay …
With cases of bears straying out of their habitat and attacking people rising, mostly in the outlying areas close to forests, wildlife officials have started a pilot project of putting GPS collars around the necks of Himalayan black bears in a bid to study their movement and behavioural pattern. Officials …
THRISSUR: Governor R S Gavai called upon scientists and researchers attending the three-day World Waterfowl Conference, which began here on Wednesday, to formulate new viable strategies for upgrading technological capabilities of waterfowl farming, thus leading to a significant acceleration of the country
LUCKNOW: The ghariyal and 35% of India's turtle species are considered by the IUCN to be endangered or critically endangered and under threat of extinction unless prompt and decisive conservation action is taken. The threatened status of aquatic reptiles was discussed at a workshop on their safe capture and handling …
With the functioning and management of a majority of the 196 zoos of the country leaving much to be desired, the Centre is considering setting up a dedicated institution to provide them with scientific and technical assistance, both in order to bring about a turnaround as also to make them …
A zoo in the United Kingdom has come up with a novel approach to locally sourcing some of its food for animals and dealing with the challenge of limited space: vertical farming. The Paignton Zoo in South Devon, working with Valcent Products (Eu) Limited and its VertiCrop farming system, has …
