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 …
It will provide the authority, a platform to deal with the govt. and implementing agencies RAA: Despite designating protected areas like national parks and sanctuaries to protect vital ecologies, the royal audit authority (RAA) found that farmers’ management units (FMU), where timber harvesting was the predominant activity, occupied more than …
The forest department will launch a publicity and awareness campaign on the implemen- tation of the controversial report prepared by the Dr K Kasturirangan committee on conservation of Western Ghats. The aim is to get the support of the general public. Thirty-three taluks in the State have been declared eco-sensitive …
The population of major animal species like lions, tigers, elephant and rhinos has increased in the country, the Rajya Sabha was told on Thursday. "The estimated population of lions has increased from 359 in 2005 to 411 in 2010. The population of tiger has increased from 1411 in 2006 to …
The committee set up to probe the alleged disappearance/theft of deer from the Lal Sohanra National Park, about 35km from here, is expected to begin its work within a few days. Talking to Dawn by phone from Lal Sohanra on Monday, District Forest Officer Jawad Shah said there was no …
About 284 deer which were donated by the Prince of Dubai have 'mysteriously' gone missing from the Laal Sohanra National Park while the management has set up a committee to ferret out facts surrounding the mystery. According to details, a month ago, Assistant Director Wildlife was given the charge of …
An Environment Ministry panel has denied permission to state governments to build new roads and widen existing ones in Wildlife Sanctuaries and other Protected Areas, where animals continue to die in road accidents. The report of the panel, noting roads have “detrimental ecological effects on both terrestrial and aquatic natural …
The state government has informed the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that no road expansion work is being carried out on the stretch of National Highway-37 that passes along the southern boundaries of Kaziranga National Park. It said the present work is confined to strengthening the existing road to keep it …
The latest recommendations by a subcommittee of ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) on roads in protected areas (PAs) may spark more trouble for road widening by the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) on NH-6 near Navegaon National Park and Mansinghdeo Wildlife Sanctuary on NH-7. A six-member subcommittee headed …
Report has permitted uncontrolled quarrying in most parts of ghats The Kasturirangan report has thrown open the ecologically sensitive areas of Western Ghats to mindless exploitation which would seriously hazard ecology, according to its critics. According to member of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) V.S. Vijayan: the report …
The State Government has proposed structures like animal underpasses, ecoducts/animal overpass and overpass/flyover in four potential animal corridors of the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) as long-term measures to make the National Park- stretch of the national highway 37 wildlife-friendly. This has been revealed by the proposal submitted by the State …
PUNE: The state is in the process of declaring areas around national parks and wildlife sanctuaries as eco-sensitive zones. Of the 49 national parks and sanctuaries across the state, proposals for declaring eco-sensitive zones around 35 of them have already been sent to the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF). …
The United Nation’s Program for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) aims to reduce the 20% contribution to global emissions of greenhouse gases from the forest sector, offering a financial value of the carbon stored in forests as an incentive for local communities. The pre-requisite for the setup …
Canada is doing a bad job of protecting the environment, an official watchdog said on Tuesday, suggesting a poor image for the country on green issues could harm Canadian companies seeking to export crude oil and natural gas. The damning report by Neil Maxwell, interim commissioner of the environment and …
The illegal killing of rhinos in South Africa, home to about 90 percent of the world's population of the endangered animals, is rising toward a record as poachers increasingly target private game farms. Bloomberg's Franz Wild reports. (Source: Bloomberg) “Extreme poverty encourages poaching,” Chissano said in an interview in the …
The Rajiv Gandhi Orang National Park lost the distinction of becoming the "zero-poaching" protected area in the state as the first incident of rhino poaching was reported this year on Saturday night. A male rhino was killed by poachers who also chopped off its horn at Nichlabari area in Sonitpur …
Conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and the University of St. Andrews warn that Uganda's African lions—a mainstay of the country's tourism industry and a symbol of Africa—are on the verge of disappearing from the country's national parks. According to the results of a recent survey, African lions in Uganda …
Mines had flourished without clearance from the standing committee of the National Board of Wildlife: panel Mining would not be permitted within one km of national parks and sanctuaries in Goa, the Union Environment Ministry has decided in an order that could take the State one step closer to restart …
Of the total 179 mining leases surveyed for mapping their distance from wildlife sanctuaries, almost 93 per cent of mines are found to be within 10 kms zone of wildlife sanctuaries. Official figures show that 168 mines fall within 10kms of wildlife sanctuaries, of which, 45 are within 1.5kms, 28 …
Preparing a health card for an ecosystem may sound a strange concept. However, an exercise to make one for Gujarat's famous Marine National Park and Gulf of Kutch is currently underway. The idea behind the initiative undertaken by Gujarat Ecology Commission (GEC) in collaboration with University of Maryland and National …
The fourth and final survey report, covering 34 mining leases, was recently submitted to the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) by the state directorate of mines and geology. This report has found two mines partly within the wildlife sanctuaries, six within 1km of the sanctuaries, 24 within 10km of …
