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 …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Society for Protection Ophiofauna and Animal Rights (OPORS) Vs State of West Bengal & Others dated 15/07/2021. The matter related to felling of trees in the forest area of the Bichabhanga on the periphery of Gorumara …
The forest department will conduct rhino census at Gorumara National Park spread over an area of over 88 square kilometres and other adjacent forestlands on Wednesday and Thursday. More than 100 groups comprising three persons each would conduct the census on Wednesday morning. On Thursday the process will be repeated. …
A census of rhinoceros will begin at the Gorumara National Park in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district from Wednesday. The objective of the exercise is to assess their population and the male-female ratio, and monitor changes in the habitat of the animal listed as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation …
Alipurduar, June 10: The railways have decided to saw off trees along the 167km-long tracks in the Dooars after two trains had back-to-back narrow escapes when trees fell on the line during a storm. Officials said most of the 120 trees that would be removed between Siliguri Junction and Alipurduar …
The habitat of the endangered Great Asian one-horned rhino in North Bengal has been hit hard by fund crunch. Insufficient allocations from the Centre have affected the two existing homes of the rhinos at Jaldapara and Gorumara. Even the fate of the much-hyped third proposed habitat at Patlakhawa Forests near …
GUWAHATI, Nov 30 – In furtherance of the growing bilateral ties between the North-East and Taiwan in the sphere of conservation, the Ambassador of Taiwan, Wen Chyi Ong, today handed over a cheque of $ 6,000 to Aaranyak, a conservation organisation of the North-East as part of a collaborative endeavour …
Jalpaiguri, July 4: The state forest department has requested the Assam government to send 20 female rhinos in exchange for the same number of males to rectify the skewed sex ratio of the animal in Gorumara National Park. The foresters say the ideal sex ratio of the rhino is 3:1 …
Jalpaiguri, May 5: The state forest department will not allow any new resort or hotel, private or government, to come up within a 10km radius of any wildlife sanctuary or national park once the surrounding areas are notified as eco-sensitive or fragile zones. Vipan Sood, the conservator of forests (wildlife), …
Alipurduar, Feb. 22: Pity for the animals or a threat by the conservator of forests to book the protesters: it is not known which worked but the captive beasts were fed today. The spider with the human face, too, was handed over to the divisional forest officer of wildlife II …
SILIGURI, 10 JAN: In order to maintain proper food chain the forest department released a total of 58-spotted deer in Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary today. The forest department in Darjeeling district brought those herbivore animals from Adina forest in Malda district. The divisional forest officer, wildlife Darjeeling-I, Mr Tapas Das said:
KOLKATA, 1 Nov: In a move that could harm both the revenue generation of the government and the prospect of tourism industry, the state forest department has issued a ban on construction of new resorts within and around one kilometre periphery of the seven wildlife sanctuaries in north Bengal. The …
Alipurduar, Feb. 25: A rhino census with 60 teams using the direct sighting method began at Gorumara National Park this morning. The teams have been told to note down the time and location of the rhinos spotted. Of the 19 kunkis (pet elephants) deployed for the census, eight have been …
Siliguri, Feb. 17: The forest department will for the first time conduct a bison census in Gorumara National Park and Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary later this month.
The rhino population in a national park at the Himalayan foothills has gone up. Elated officials of the West Bengal forest department are now getting ready to carry out a census in another reserve forest. During a census last November in the Gorumara National Park, located in the Himalayan foothills …
