Affidavit filed by the Chief Wildlife Warden, Assam in the matter of news item titled "the last feral horses in India" appearing in Mongabay, November 5, 2024. The matter relates to the critically endangered status of feral horses in the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park as well as of smuggling of these …
NAGPUR: The National Tiger Conservation Authority, a statutory body under the MoEF monitoring tiger reserves in the country, has directed all the reserves to incorporate supplementary guidelines to prepare tiger conservation plans (TCPs) and has set a deadline of June 15, to submit them. Like a working plan for territorial …
Government says only 359,762 of 756,000 signatures were legitimate, meaning petition fails to trigger national referendum Nearly two thirds of the signatures on a national petition to stop oil being exploited on a large scale in one of the most biodiverse parts of the Amazon rainforest have been rejected, leading …
The Green Movement of Sri Lanka has filed a writ application in the Court of Appeal seeking action against the deforestation of the Wilpattu National Park, local media reported. The Movement, a consortium with 147 non-governmental organizations involved in natural resource management, has requested court to ensure that the people …
Six elephants were killed by poachers in a Kenyan national park last week, including four calves, one of which was so young it did not have tusks. Three suspects have since been arrested. The incident in Tsavo East national park on Thursday, described by conservationists as demonstrating the "inhumanity" of …
Kedarnath was the worst hit in Uttarakhand in June 2013 tragedy.Dams and tunnels will wreck Uttarakhand, green activists have said all along. It's official now. Blaming hydropower projects for aggravating the impact of the Uttarakhand catastrophe of June 2013 and for environmental degradation of the state, an expert committee of …
The current global price of Iron Ore at around $120/t cfr China is in tandem with the falling trend of this critical input and is projected to go down further by another $10-15/t in the coming weeks, depending on how the Chinese deal with the huge inventories lying at ports …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Dileep B. Nevatia Vs. Union of India & Ors dated 28/04/2014 regarding a project in question and its location within 10 KMs of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park and also whether the project falls under CRZ-IV, …
Tribal villages around the core area of Similipal Tiger Reserve have come forward to join hands with the State Forest department in its fight against poaching and timber smuggling in the National park. The Forest department, in association with Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), has launched a special drive in …
The Supreme Court's order fixing a one km buffer zone for mining has in effect put a permanent closure to 32 mining leases in Goa coming under the eco-sensitive zone in the wildlife sanctuaries of Mhadei, Molem, Bondla and Netravali. In its iterim order, the SC has stated that there …
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday lifted the ban on Goa mining and allowed an annual cap of 20 million tonnes of iron ore excavation, down from earlier 40 MT. However, the apex court said there will be no grant of lease for mining around one km of national …
But puts annual cap of 20 million tonne on excavation The Supreme Court today allowed an annual cap of 20 million tonnes of iron ore to be extracted in Goa which was banned by it in the state for nearly one-and- a-half years. A bench comprising justices A K Patnaik, …
Supreme Court allowed an annual cap of 20 million tonnes of iron ore to be extracted in Goa . The apex court also said there will be no grant of lease for mining around one km of national parks and wild life sanctuaries and directed the Ministry of Environment and …
Jharkhand forests can hope to become fireproof this summer with the state forest department launching a series of initiatives to throw a safety ring around its green belt. Although the period from mid-February to mid-June is most crucial for forests given the high chances of blazes, especially when it becomes …
A joint statement issued by a number of movements, conservation NGOs and experts in conservation biology against the application filed in the Supreme Court against the Forest Rights Act.
In January of this year an application was filed in the Supreme Court in an ongoing case (Wildlife First and Ors. vs. Union of India and Ors.) that seeks to have the Forest Rights Act declared unconstitutional. In their most recent application, the petitioners - Praveen Bhargav of Wildlife First, …
The rare wildlife here are on verge of disappearance in lack of conservation efforts. The Mangri, Kimri, Pulu, Dolphu and Mugu VDCs in the eastern part of the district are considered to be the area enriched with biodiversity. The area is famous for high medicinal value herbs including yarsagunba, guchchhi …
The state government has decided not to permit resumption of mining in the state until the findings of the public accounts committee and Shah Commission report are adequately dealt with. This was informed to the ministry of mines by the state government and was stated in the updated memorandum of …
The state forest department is planning to close down some of its major wildlife sanctuaries and parks following the onset of acute summer and increasing incidents of forest fires in the last few weeks. The Wayanad and Parambikulam wildlife sanctuaries and the Eravikulam National Park will be out of bounds …
State faces a Goa-like situation, warns National Board of Wildlife In order to bypass the need for a mandatory clearance from the National Board of Wildlife (NBW) for a slew of dams being developed in Sikkim, the Environment Ministry has slashed the protective zone around the hill State’s national parks …
The 33-member state wildlife board, headed by chief minister Prithviraj Chavan, will meet in Mumbai on Thursday to clear a hosts of irrigation, mining and road widening projects under eco-sensitive zones (ESZs) and buffer zones of various wildlife sanctuaries and national parks. Interestingly, the first meeting of the reconstituted board …
