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 …
PANJIM: Following Goa government decision on 1 km buffer zone for wildlife sanctuaries and national park in Goa, based on CEC report on buffer zones to the Supreme Court, the government has wound-up the committees constituted to identify the eco-sensitive zone for the State. Government through a notification has de-notified …
The environment ministry has opposed the recommendations of the Centrally Empowered Committee (CEC) of the Supreme Court and the amicus curiae's suggestions that the ring of limited-industrialization zone around the 600 plus national parks and sanctuaries be diminished. The ministry has said that the suggestions to reduce and pre-fix the …
Sumatra's Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park—home to the Critically Endangered Sumatran rhinos, tigers, and elephants—has become overrun with coffee farmers, loggers, and opportunists according to a new paper in Conservation and Society. An issue facing the park for decades, the study attempted for the first time to determine the number …
There was no order on Friday of the three-judge environment Bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Aftab Alam on the cessation of all iron ore mining activities in Goa it ordered on October 5. The Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC), which was asked to submit its preliminary …
The Asiatic Wild Water Buffalo Bubalus arnee is an endangered species restricted to South and Southeast Asia. Nepal’s only population survives in the Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve which is located on the floodplain of the Koshi River, a tributary of Ganga. This species is under threat due to high anthropogenic …
Weekend family picnics to Kanheri caves in your car are soon going to become a thing of the past as the forest department plans to ban all private vehicles inside the National Park by the end of December. They will instead bring in special battery operated or CNG buses for …
Mines situated within this buffer zone should be closed in a phased manner, says Parrikar Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Monday the State government will not allow any new mining leases up to 2 km of wildlife sanctuaries and national parks. The Chief Minister told presspersons on the sidelines …
About a dozen companies are contributing to a novel conservation plan that pays Ecuador to protect part of the Amazon rainforest in return for barring oil drilling, the head of the initiative said on Friday. Ivonne Baki said the scheme to conserve the Yasuni area of the Amazon basin, launched …
Namibia, the country with the ‘world’s oldest desert’ and two global biodiversity hot spots, is pursuing an uncommon conservation model— one that sets wild species survival quotas for local communities and allows ‘cropping’ of surplus animals. A country of 2.1 million with a land area of about 800,000 sq km, …
New Delhi: The Centre on Monday notified fresh guidelines on tiger conservation allowing “regulated low impact tourism” in the core and critical tiger habitat. “Since, tourism has been happening in areas of national parks and wildlife sanctuaries which are designated as core and critical tiger habitat, regulated low impact tourism …
The Mediterranean region is one of the hot spots of climate change. This study aims at understanding what are the conditions sustaining tree diversity in Mediterranean wet forests under future scenarios of altered hydrological regimes. The core of the work is a quantitative, dynamic model describing the coexistence of different …
Costa Rica is poised to become the first Latin American country to ban hunting as a sport, after Congress on Tuesday provisionally approved reforms to its Wildlife Conservation Law. Lawmakers voting on the ban voted 41 in favor and five against, and a second vote expected in the coming week …
Stung by opposition parties’ criticism following deaths of one-horned rhinos in the Kaziranga National park, the Assam government on Tuesday decided to rush a 100-member team of the elite Assam Forest Protection Force for its protection. “A 50-member AFPF team has already left today while another 50 members will be …
Nature-based tourism is well recognised as a tool that can be used for neoliberal conservation. Proponents argue that such tourism can provide revenue for conservation activities, and income generating opportunities and other benefits for local people living at the destination. Private-Community Partnerships (PCPs) are a particular form of hybrid intervention …
Both fortress and community-based approaches to conservation have shown poor (sometimes negative) results in terms of environmental protection and poverty reduction. Either approach can also trigger grassroots resistance. This article is centered on an allegedly 'community-based' conservation and development project (and its successive follow-ups) intended to create a national park …
Landslides triggered by heavy rain claimed 29 lives, including those of ITBP and BRO personnel in Sikkim, even as flood situation in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh deteriorated with vast areas reeling under its impact. Official sources on Sunday said in Gangtok at least 21 bodies, including those of the Indo-Tibetan …
PANAJI: Environmentalists today organised a protest walk here demanding cancellation of mining leases operating within 10 kms of wildlife sanctuaries and national parks in Goa. The green activists, who marched to the office of chief wildlife warden of Goa, highlighted the just submitted report of Justice M B Shah Commission, …
The national bird peacock seems to be low on the priority list of Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) considering the fact that the national peacock census proposed by the Wildlife Institute of India has been pending for nearly five years. WII scientists point out that they need funds …
Monsoon Anyway Halts Ore Extraction; Exports Allowed New Delhi: The Shah Commission report may give the people of Goa only a temporary reprieve from the impacts of mining with the state government permitting trade of already extracted ore that has been termed illegal by the panel. The Manohar Parrikar government …
Many wildlife species face imminent extinction because of human impacts, and therefore, a prevailing belief is that some wildlife species, particularly large carnivores and ungulates, cannot coexist with people at fine spatial scales (i.e., cannot regularly use the exact same point locations). This belief provides rationale for various conservation programs, …
