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 …
HYDERABAD: Roughly two months after the southern bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) delivered its verdict on the SRDP-KBR Park case, Telangana officials on Saturday decided to revise the Eco-Sensitive Zone (ESZ) of the national park yet again. This time between three and 26 metres. The proposal, according to …
The under-construction North Chennai Thermal Power Station (NCTPS) 1x800 mega-watt super-critical plant is threatening to degrade the ‘last surviving’ 76.9 hectares (190 acres) of green belt in Ennore, which is a dynamic ecosystem and a critical floodplain. Local environmentalists allege that the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) report was not in …
The desperate call of a starving chick or the screechy mating call of a red-wattled lapwing in Pallikaranai get drowned in the din of vehicles that whiz past the marshland. All through the day, these birds are exposed to urban cacophony, and experts say it is having an adverse impact …
No gun fire, no smoke, not even a swish of the net that is spread well before the unsuspecting victims land in a flock on lakebeds and floating hyacinth. Even before you can spell `poaching', migratory birds are stuffed away in the hundreds in gunny bags to little-known eateries that …
Provides one last opportunity for States to give site-specific proposals A decade after the National Board for Wildlife envisaged declaring areas within 10 km of the boundary of national parks and sanctuaries as eco-sensitive zones, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has given one last opportunity to all …
Petition challenges converting new secretariat complex in Chennai into a hospital The National Green Tribunal here on Tuesday admitted a petition by advocate R. Veeramani, challenging the environmental clearance given by the State Level Environmental Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) to convert the new Legislative Assembly cum Secretariat complex in Chennai …
National Green Tribunal issues notice to State government The National Green Tribunal, New Delhi, on Thursday issued notice (before admission) to the Tamil Nadu government on a petition filed by R. Veeramani, an advocate, challenging the environmental clearance granted by the State Level Environmental Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) to convert …
‘Stress factor' of trees to calculate risk to road-users For the next five months, every Saturday, about 5,000 students from various schools and colleges will be seen measuring trees on the streets of the city. The students are part of an exercise to develop a census of the tree population …
IN what seems to be a creepy affair, eight sand boas were stolen from the snake park at Guindy on Sunday, while only a day before a similar one went missing from Vandalur zoo
P. Oppili CHENNAI: There has been a marginal decrease in the population of blackbuck and spotted deer in 2008 at the Guindy National Park, located inside the Children
P. Oppili DWINDLING: Loss of habitat and in-breeding are among the reasons cited for a marginal reduction in the population of spotted dear and blackbuck at Guindy National Park in Chennai. CHENNAI: There has been a marginal decrease in the population of blackbuck and spotted deer in 2008 at the …
