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 …
Development aggression through state, public-private partnerships and corporate projects – large dams, mines, logging, plantations, national parks... and the like – are displacing millions of indigenous peoples from their lands and territories... their traditional sources of subsistence, distinct cultures and ways of life. Indigenous peoples in their resource-rich lands are …
This document published by Project Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation cell, Goverment of Gujarat is a comprehensive compilation of major statistical facts about various aspects of forest. It also contains details of wildlife sanctuaries & national parks in the state. This document has attempted to compile most of the major statistical …
The government has sanctioned Rs 33.60 crore for forest development and preservation under this year's annual plan from the Thirteenth Finance Commission’s grants-in-aid for the forest department. The commission had sanctioned a sum of Rs 142.48 crore for the five year plan period. In the first two years, the government …
GUWAHATI, June 29 – Expressing grave concern over the unabated killing of marooned wildlife near human settlements during the current wave of floods, public activist Prof Deven Dutta today questioned what prevented the government authorities, the Forest Department and the police in particular, from protecting the straying animals as also …
New Delhi Even as the Prime Minister pitches for infrastructure investments, the Union environment ministry is planning to reduce the area available for mining and other infrastructure projects. Official sources told FE the ministry would soon earmark “inviolate areas” which would apply to all development and infrastructural projects, besides subsuming …
The KSK group company, Kameng Dam Hydro Power, is working on a 420-MW hydel project The Environment Ministry has declined clearance to hydel power project of the KSK group saying the unit proposed in Arunanchal Pradesh may fall under an area demarcated for a wildlife sanctuary, and is close to …
Ecosystem service assessments have increasingly been used to support environmental management policies, mainly based on biophysical and economic indicators. However, few studies have coped with the social-cultural dimension of ecosystem services, despite being considered a research priority. We examined how ecosystem service bundles and trade-offs emerge from diverging social preferences …
PANJIM: Environmentalist Madhav Gadgil who heads Western Ghats Ecological Expert Panel (WGEEP) refused to specify the exact length of buffer zone for Goa wildlife sanctuaries but said that ‘it should be in several kilometers.’ On Thursday, Gadgil, made a presentation of his report, which has been lying with the Ministry …
PROTECTIONS for key threatened species in areas added to Victoria's urban growth boundaries by the Baillieu government have been wound back under yet to be released biodiversity plans. Under the revised plans — which still need approval by the Commonwealth — proposals for wildlife corridors for rare bandicoots have been …
New Delhi: If the environment ministry’s draft proposal for ‘inviolate forest areas’ is accepted, large swathes of forests, including national parks, wildlife sanctuaries, tiger reserves and wildlife corridors, would be out of bounds for all mining activities, not just coal excavation. The ministry’s draft lists criteria for identifying forest patches …
New Delhi: If the environment ministry’s draft proposal for ‘inviolate forest areas’ is accepted, large swathes of healthy forests, including national parks, wildlife sanctuaries, tiger reserves and wildlife corridors, would be out of bounds for all mining activities, and not just coal excavation. The ministry’s draft lists criteria for identifying …
PANJIM: Despite raps from the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), Goa's State Forest Policy is yet to see the light of day, even after the process to finalise it began way back in April last year. The draft which was put up for public scrutiny received tremendous response with a …
THE introduction of recreational hunting in national parks is likely to jeopardise public safety and drive out other users, according to confidential documents that raise questions about the state government's decision to open the areas to licensed shooters. The Premier, Barry O'Farrell, has announced 79 national parks and reserves will …
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has launched a publication titled “From Rio to Rio: A 20-year Journey to Green the World’s Economies,” which consists of an analysis of 20 select projects that illustrate the key lessons emerging from the 20 years of work by the GEF. The publication was launched …
The environment ministry denied on Monday that it had effected any changes in the way forest clearances were granted in wildlife areas and said they would continue to be routed through the National Board of Wildlife's standing committee. Sources in the environment ministry also said that the group of ministers …
A Group of Ministers (GoM) will examine threadbare the environment ministry's proposal to categorise certain coalfields as "inviolate areas" when it meets on May 30. It will also seek answers from the ministry on whether it can constitute more forest advisory committees for granting faster green clearances besides relaxing norms …
Union minister of state for forests Jayanthi Natarajan on Wednesday announced a recovery programme for saving critically endangered species and their habitats. Under the initiative, 16 species have been identified for support. This includes snow leopard, bustards (including floricans), dolphin, hangul, Nilgiri tahr, marine turtles, dugongs and coral reefs, edible …
Timber worth millions of rupees was destroyed due to wildfires in more than 200 community and national forests in the Chure and Mahabharat areas in the district within the past two weeks. The District Forest Office (DFO) said forest fires engulfed more than 100 community forests in Alitali, Sirsha and …
A wildlife official says that about 5,000 elephants have been killed by poachers over the past five years around the Nouabale Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo. Thomas Breuer, a senior technical official of the Wildlife Conservation Society project in the park, says that authorities must take action …
Small, busy and overcrowded, England might seem the last place in the world to have room for one of the planet's largest inhabited areas of unspoiled, natural darkness when night falls. But if plans by Kielder Forest and the adjacent Northumberland national park are realised, the country will be home …
