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 Western Ghats have been labeled a world heritage site, but scientists from the city-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology have found that biodiversity is not well conserved in the region’s vast terrain and forest tracts. Scientists from CCMB have studied Annamalai and Madumalai tiger reserves in the Western …
With the lion safari and breeding centre gradually taking shape in about 300 hectares of Fisher forest in Etawah district of Uttar Pradesh, purebred lions, unlike their counterparts in Gir and Junagadh, are set to be introduced in the forest. This lion safari project is the first to introduce purebred …
Expediting the proposal on Uttar Pradesh's first lion safari in Etawah, the State Wildlife Department has completed the Master Plan of the project. The department is working hard to make the safari operational in a month. “The Government has sanctioned Rs 5 crore. We have readied the Master Plan and …
AHMEDABAD: The state forest and environment department, in a notification issued on Thursday, has reiterated that it is mandatory for all projects in the 10-km area of wildlife sanctuaries to obtain clearance from the National Board of Wildlife (NBW). It stated that for projects which require environment clearance and the …
Forest Department Says It Does Not Want To Lose Sympathy Of Locals Rajkot: Gujarat’s forest department is facing a strange dilemma. Officials would like to book people who harass the Asiatic Lion in Gir and surrounding areas so that they can teach the pranksters a lesson and set an example. …
AHMEDABAD: A lioness staring into the lens with a stately gaze. This one photograph on the Madhya Pradesh (MP) Tourism department's website to sell the Kuno Palpur Sanctuary has upset government officials in Gujarat - the only home of the Asiatic lion in the world at present. MP Tourism has …
AHMEDABAD: The fight to save Gujarat's USP, the Asiatic Lion, has begun in earnest. The Supreme Court's order staying the reintroduction of cheetah in Kuno Palpur has not only dealt a blow to the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF), but has got the Gujarat forest department officers on their …
Ahmedabad: A lioness staring into the lens with a stately gaze. This photograph on the Madhya Pradesh tourism department’s website to sell the Kuno Palpur Sanctuary has upset officials in Gujarat — the only home of the Asiatic lion in the world. MP tourism has started selling the Kuno Palpur …
The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the implementation of the Cheetah Reintroduction Programme by which the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) had proposed to import the African large-sized feline to India. A forest bench comprising justices K.S. Radhakrishan and C.K. Prasad restrained the government from going ahead with the …
The Government’s ambitious plan to introduce African cheetah into Indian terrain sustained a blow on Tuesday with the Supreme Court ordering stay on the project till the necessary sanctions andpermissions of necessary stakeholders was sought. With the court already seized with a similar relocation project involving lions from Gujarat’s Gir …
The Supreme Court has stayed the Centre’s ambitious cheetah re-introduction project. The project initiated by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests in 2010 aimed to bring the cheetah, which became extinct from India’s forests in 1952, back to the country.
MAHUVA: Have poachers become active near Gir National Park again? Missing claws of a lion that died a year ago and a cub that has been missing for nearly 50 days indicate that all is not well in the lion's abode. A 10-month-old lion cub in this range has been …
There seems to be no meeting point between the governments of two BJP stalwarts Narendra Modi and Shivraj Singh Chouhan on shifting of the Asiatic lions from Gir forests in Gujarat to Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh. While the Chouhan government on Monday furnished details about the preparatory steps …
Madhya Pradesh on Monday told the Supreme Court that it has “all the necessary infrastructure, expertise and environment for translocating lions” from Gujarat’s Gir to its Kuno Palpur sanctuary. A Forest Bench of Justices K S Radhakrishnan and C K Prasad is hearing a petition on whether the Asiatic lions …
The Gujarat government on Monday opposed in the Supreme Court any effort by the Centre to translocate Asiatic lions from its Gir sanctuary to Kuno Palpur wildlife sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh. Appearing before a Forest Bench of Justices K S Radhakrishnan and C K Prasad, senior advocate Shyam Divan said …
GANDHINAGAR: The last abode of Asiatic Lions, Gir Sanctuary, lost 25 lions in the year 2011-12 till December, the Gujarat assembly was informed. Total of 86 lion deaths were reported in the last three years in Gir. As per the 2010 census, there were around 297 lions in Gir Sanctuary …
The Gujarat government’s argument that there is no need to move the Asiatic lions from the state’s Gir territory prompted the Supreme Court to observe on Tuesday that the big cats are not the “property” of the state, but belong to the country. “No state can claim the right over …
AHMEDABAD: With an increasing number of man-animal conflicts being reported from the periphery of Gir sanctuary, efforts are being made to bridge the gap between villagers and the state's forest and environment department. A mobile van has been introduced to roam in the villages along the boundary and help in …
AHMEDABAD: At least 29 lions, including 10 cubs, have died in the past eight months since the census April last year. The state government said this replying to Porbandar MLA Arjun Modhwadia's query in the assembly on Wednesday. The three-day lion census was held in the state from April 24, …
