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 …
The Gujarat government will draw up an action plan on wildlife conservation in association with International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). “In the first week of February, we shall be drawing the outline of future action programme on conservation with IUCN,” Principal Chief Conservator of Forests C.N Pandey said. …
Thrissur: A panel constituted to work on demarcating ecologically-sensitive zones around national parks and wildlife sanctuaries in the state on Monday visited the Silent Valley National Park in Palakkad and held deliberations with the public. The panel members, comprising MLAs T N Prathapan, N Shamsudeen and state wildlife board officials, …
Officials in Nepal have said they will now have to put a cap on the growth of wildlife including endangered species like tigers and rhinos. They say it is a result of significant increase in loss of human lives from attacks by wild animals. The problem is especially acute in …
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has directed the departments concerned to submit detailed reports on declaring eco-sensitive zones around wildlife sanctuaries on a directive of the Supreme Court. Addressing a conference convened here on Thursday to discuss the issue, the Chief Minister said the State government would be able to adopt …
Incidents of rhino poaching and the illegal horn trade are at the highest levels in over 20 years, placing the survival of these species at great risk, according to a recent report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Traffic, a wildlife trade monitoring network. The report, …
SRINAGAR: As the winter sets in, Hokrsar 14 kilometres north of Srinagar the capital city of Kashmir is home to migratory birds; visitors from Siberia and other regions of Central Asia, a thrilling experience for locals and tourists alike. History tells us that the delegations of 14th century Sufi Saints …
Union Forest Ministry asks States to submit report before February 15 The Forest and Wildlife Department will work on demarcating ecologically sensitive zones around national parks and wildlife sanctuaries in the State as per directions of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF). V. Gopinath, Chief Wildlife Warden, told …
Provides one last opportunity for States to give site-specific proposals A decade after the National Board for Wildlife envisaged declaring areas within 10 km of the boundary of national parks and sanctuaries as eco-sensitive zones, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has given one last opportunity to all …
PANJIM: The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests in its affidavit submitted to the Supreme Court, stated it has no objection to the present petition being heard on merit, sticking to its earlier stand that in case a mining project is located within 10 kms from a wildlife sanctuary or …
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) on Monday told states any commercial activity within 10 km of 650 national parks and wildlife sanctuaries would be discontinued if they failed to notify ecologically sensitive areas by next month. Environment secretary V Rajagopalan, in a letter to state chief secretaries, …
ISLAMABAD, Jan 6: The Margalla Hills National Park has battled encroachments and lost land, landscape and nature after it was declared a protected habitat in 1981. From stone crushers in the west to military set-ups in the foothills of the hills gradually expanding their fences into the park, the protected …
Camera Trap: The presence of a royal Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris) in Lampelri botanical park was confirmed recently, a couple of years after a cow herder had complained of losing his cattle to the predator. Royal botanical park officials confirmed its presence, after they found the video that had captured …
The environment ministry has set February 15 as the deadline for states to finalize no-go areas for industry around the 600-plus national parks and sanctuaries. If the states fail to meet the deadline, the Centre will impose a 10-km stretch around these zones as eco-sensitive areas, where development projects would …
In a turnaround, the state forest department has decided to prepare eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) proposals around protected areas (PAs) as per the 10km norm, deciding on case-by-case basis and depending on site-specific situations and not as per the Supreme Court's centrally empowered committee (CEC) recommendation. In September, the CEC recommended …
Wildlife experts on board the apex National Board of Wildlife (NBWL) will clear development projects only over those forestlands which explicitly enjoy a higher level of protection under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 or are mandated for greater safety by the Supreme Court. Projects in forest patches, such as elephant …
Measures to protect the wildlife and biodiversity in general include inter alia, notification of suitable wildlife habitats as Protected Areas (National Parks, sanctuaries etc.) under the Wild Life (protection) Act (WLPA), 1972. Recommendations of the National Board for Wildlife (NBL) are prescribed in the Act for regulating any activity inside …
In light of the current global extinction crisis, understanding how and where drivers of population decline will take effect has never been more important. Climate change is expected to be a major driver of species extinctions in the 21st century. Average changes in greenhouse gas concentrations are expected to produce …
Zimbabwe has lost a total of 190 elephants due to water shortage this year, according to wildlife authorities. The country's Parks and Wildlife Management Authority said the elephants died during the dry season at the Hwange National Park, the largest in the country, Xinhua reported. Last year, the park lost …
Illegal hunting poses a considerable threat to the wildlife of Serengeti National Park and its affiliated protected areas. Techniques for successful mitigation of this threat are heavily debated. Bottom-up community-based initiatives aim to curb poaching by linking local communities with wildlife conservation. Top-down anti-poaching enforcement of protected areas seeks to …
After categorically denying that there was mining near Sariska Tiger Reserve and claiming that nearly 40 mining leases were given 20-60 km away from the tiger reserve, the mining department has filed an affidavit before the Supreme Court- appointed panel requesting that the 'no-mining zone' shall be reduced to 100 …
