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 …
Several initiatives have been taken by govt for conservation and protection of tigers and other wild animals in the country. The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has accorded final approval to two national parks for being declared as tiger reserves, the Lok Sabha was informed today. "The NTCA has accorded …
The Karnataka government will implement the second phase of the Karnataka Sustainable Forest Management and Biodiversity Conservation Project, aimed at expanding forests, over the next eight years. The project will involve a cost of Rs 1899.72 crore. It will be implemented with an aid of Rs 1701.98 crore from the …
On paper, it is an open-and-shut case. Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Ltd (KIOCL), a public sector undertaking (PSU), mined the rainforests of Kudremukh in Karnataka till 2005 when a ban on mining operations imposed by the Supreme Court came into effect. The company was ordered to remove its infrastructure and …
On paper, it is an open-and-shut case. Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Ltd (KIOCL), a public sector undertaking (PSU), mined the rainforests of Kudremukh in Karnataka till 2005 when a ban on mining operations imposed by the Supreme Court came into effect. The company was ordered to remove its infrastructure and …
Rehabilitation programmes stalled owing to severe financial crunch Left high and dry by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), the State Forest department has been forced to approach the State government in the hopes of getting funds for rehabilitation projects under Project Tiger in Karnataka. The department, the nodal agency …
State delegation will soon meet Jayanthi Natarajan: Yogeshwar Much against the wishes of the Karnataka State government, Union Minister for Environment and Forests (MoEF) Jayanthi Natarajan on Tuesday announced in Parliament that final approval had been accorded to declare Kudremukh National Park as a tiger reserve. The State government is …
The Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) of the Ministry of Environment and Forests and the Karnataka Forest Department initiated a unique “conservation swap” to settle a controversy involving a forest corridor. Under the “conservation swap”, a 25-km-long wildlife corridor disrupted by a 220 KVA power transmission line in the Kudremukh National …
Says National Park area not to be expanded; no eviction of villagers The State Forest department has once again mooted the proposal to get Kudremukh National Park (KNP) declared a Tiger Reserve, a status which has been withheld despite the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) giving its in-principle …
The State government has dropped a proposal to expand the Bhadra Tiger Reserve as well as include Kudremukh National Park under Project Tiger after local people opposed it, Law Minister Suresh Kumar told the Assembly on Thursday. Replying to the issue raised by Leader of the Opposition Siddaramaiah, the minister …
Jairam Ramesh says all formalities are expected to be completed soon Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said here on Sunday that the Union government had approved two more tiger reserves in Karnataka and the formalities would be completed in a few days. Mr. Ramesh told reporters that B.R. …
NEW DELHI: Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh has sought a proposal from Karnataka for declaring the Kudremukh National Park a tiger reserve. In a letter to Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, Mr. Ramesh said such a move would strengthen tiger landscapes and, thereby, forestry conservation. The area is biologically significant …
ENVIRONMENT minister Jairam Ramesh has asked the Karnataka government to submit a proposal to declare the Kudremukh National Park in the Western Ghats as a tiger reserve. He has also ask to remove the machinery and infrastructure belonging to the Kudremukh Iron Ore Company inside the park. The mining company …
Chikmagalur: Western Ghat Task Force Member Dr Keshava Hegde Korse said that the number of wild animals has been increased considerably after mining activities were wound up by the Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Limited. Speaking to Deccan Herald here on Tuesday, he said that a serene atmosphere prevails in the …
The main premise of political ecology is that environmental change is not a neutral process amenable to technical management. Rather, it has political sources, conditions and ramifications that impinge on socio-economic inequalities and political process. The article seeks to provide an introduction to the rapidly growing research field of Third …
Though 390 families leading their lives in Kudremukh National Park limits are ready to vacate their land and leave, they allege that Government has not yet come up with any alternative facilities to rehabilitate them. A plantation within Kudremukh National Park. Photo/Ravi KelangadiThe organisations fighting for justice say that the …
Vinobha K T, Mangalore, Apr 16, DHNS: For millennia, they lived in harmony with nature in the pristine forests of what is now the Kudremukh National Park, but in the recent years the innocent world of the Malekudiya tribals is in turmoil. Government control of the forests and the consequent …
Besides graduating from iron ore trading to mining and setting up an integrated steel and pellet plant, MSPL has also diversified into industrial gases, wind energy and shipping When the Baldota brothers corporatised their 10-year-old iron trading business as Mineral Sales Pvt Ltd in 1962, they had only one customer: …
Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday said that there will be no dilution of the provisions of Forest (Conservation) Act 1980 when it comes to clearing projects that require diversion of large tracts of forest land. Replying to queries on the large number of …
Union Minister for Environment and Forest Jairam Ramesh warned that no mining activities will be allowed in the name of development at any place in the nation including Kudremukh. Speaking to mediapersons after visiting the prominent rehabilitation centre in Asia, Bhadra Rehabilitation Centre at M C Halli near here, Ramesh …
