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 …
more than one in 10 of the aquatic birds in Spain's Donana National Park are suffering from the effects of high levels of heavy metals after a toxic spill at the Los Frailes zinc mine a year ago, said a report. The report by Spain's Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas …
the Madhya Pradesh forest department's decision to pave the way for collection of minor forest produce ( mfp ) in all national parks and wildlife sanctuaries of the state has drawn flak from some conservationists. This is in gross violation of the Forest Conservation Act and Wildlife Protection Act, say …
For the first time in India's history, a writ petition has been filed in the High Court to shift a national zoological park. The petition filed by People for Animals (PFA), a group led by Maneka Gandhi, draws the court's attention to the pitiable conditions in the Calcutta Zoo. It …
Once upon a time, the Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique was a healthy green forest filled with wildlife, and enjoyed the distinction of being the country's most biologically-diverse park. But 17 years of intense civil war has changed all that. During the war, Renamo - the National Resistance of Mozambique, …
The Worldwide Fund for Nature (wwf) has identified Venezuela's Canaima National Park as part of its innovative Global 200 system. Global 200 initiative aims to encourage a more holistic view of environmental challenges. Canaima forms part of the Guyanan highlands forest and freshwater ecosystems, which spread into Brazil and Guyana …
it is fascinating to find colourful hot springs and boiling mud ponds in Yellowstone national park, Wyoming, usa. However, there are several mind-boggling facts that people do not know. Nearly seven kilometres (km) beneath the park's surface, there are gigantic globs of partly melted rock and pressurised gas. This may …
spain recently congratulated itself on saving Donana national park, one of the continent's most important wetlands, from a flood of toxic sludge from a mine. The celebrations, however, may be short-lived, for mining engineers and naturalists fear that land outside the park may have been contaminated with enough heavy metals …
If wildlife research and management in India was indeed a cartoon film, this would be about time when antics of the scientific community and the wildlife bureaucracy, just stopped being funny. So far they have been going around in circles, falling over and bumping into each other without one paying …
each year, thermal features such as hot springs at the Yellowstone national park in the us emit millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide (co2), the most important greenhouse gas, according to researchers at Pennsylvania State University (psu), usa. This is more than the emissions from a typical industrial power plant, …
At a recent two-day meeting on the Management of Royal Manas National Park (RMNP) in Bhutan, participants resolved several issues that have been confronting the RMNP. The socioeconomic uplift-ment of the local people residing within the park was discussed by various collaborator& Said park manager Jigme PaIden, "We are not …
three cheers! The Indian Board of Wildlife meets at last, presumably because of the pressure from non-governmental organisations. The apex decision-making body in India in the field of wildlife was established to come up with policies and strategies to preserve and enhance the country's wildlife population; the board has done …
India's protected areas (PAs) account for 19 per cent of her forest cover and 4.3 per cent of her landmass. Thus, approximately 15 million hectares of forest land has been effectively locked away from people who have been dependent on them for centuries. Lopsided conservation policies can be apportioned the …
The World Wide Fund for Nature-India (wwf-i) brought to the attention of the Delhi High Court that the Centre had denotified large areas in the national parks and sanctuaries violating the provisions of the Wildlife Protection Act, endangering animals. The wwf-i asked the court to immediately stop any mining activities …
the World Bank's ( wb ) attempts to sneak in funds for the potentially ruinous ecodevelopment projects in seven national parks in the country has finally been exposed. The Bank officials and those from the Global Environmental Facility had no answers to one honest challenge from the people who have …
Participation is a lovely word. For long it has been twisted around to mean anything according to the whims and fancies of the user of the word. A recent study on participatory approaches to wildlife management currently being tried out in Africa, called Whose Eden? presents a wonderful list of …
a mega eco-development project in seven protected areas of the country funded by the World Bank ( wb ) has come under fire from environmentalists. The wb had recently approved a us $28 million-loan and a us $20 million-grant from the Global Environment Facility for the project. It aims at …
D Southgate and H L Clark pointed out that "the present conservation paradigm, was "an attempt to transplant national parks, a rich country institution, to an alien setting", and that 'traditionally, defined, a park is a natural area where no people ... live or work". Using the example of the …
• Produce a white paper on the status of wildlife in the country, which also evaluates the current conservation policies and their effectiveness. • Reassess the Wildlife Act, and bring in appropriate modifications which would allow people to be involved in the management of protected areas, as well as create …
NOTWITHSTANDING all loud discussions on preserving national parks and Nomr@es, the economics of the issue has resnained largely unsubstantiated. Vlie"ntly, two studies were conducted by a research team at the Indira Gandhi VwWtute of Development Research ("M). Bombay, on the contingent val of the Borivli National Park and by M …
