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 (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of M/s Unnathi Associates Mr. Kirti D. Shah V/s Vanshakti & Ors. dated 09/01/2017 regarding proposed residential cum commercial project of M/s.Unnathi Associates (Owale taluka, District Thane) lies at 40 metres distance from the private forest adjoining …
MUMBAI: The frequency of leopard attacks around Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) in the last one year has again raised fears among locals of the bigger human conflict with the wild. In the last 15 years, 128 people have been attacked in or around the national park. As many as …
At a time when crores are being spent on tiger conservation, forests would be cut down at Mahan in Central India following provisional clearance for coal mining by the Government. According to experts 35 per cent of the 1,700 Indian tigers left in the wild are in the forests of …
It’s been more than 15 years that the Bombay High Court ordered relocation of all illegal settlements inside Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) to accommodations outside park limits. The forest department, however, has failed to rehabilitate even half of the eligible settlers. Statistics show that out of the 25,144 eligible …
Lieutenant-Governor launches International Year of Forests celebration by planting a sapling Amid a growing demand from nature lovers that Sanjay Van, a city forest spread over 783 acres near Neela Hauz, be made a bird sanctuary, the 2011 International Year of Forests celebration was launched by Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna on …
The State Forest Department continuing with the ongoing process of notifying the buffer zones around tiger reserves across the State, announced the notification of the same at Sanjay Tiger Reserve. With the recent notification, the forest department has notified buffer zone at five out of the six tiger reserves of …
Panna-like tiger revival plan is on the cards in Sanjay Tiger Reserve, situated in Sidhi district of Madhya Pradesh. The State Forest Department is right now seeking the help of the private sector in developing basic infrastructure for attracting tourists to this reserve. In undivided Madhya Pradesh, Sanjay Tiger Reserve …
Mumbai: Dead animals will take pride of place at the Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Udyan and Zoo, Byculla, soon after its makeover. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has decided to display stuffed creatures in a taxidermy museum to be set up at the zoo as the authorities will not be able to …
MUMBAI: It's official now. There will be no wildlife census in Mumbai and Thane region this year. The headcount usually takes place in May every year. "Earlier this year, we carried out a density estimation survey by using the line transect method, which has been jointly developed by the Wildlife …
In a rare event at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, a team of veterinarians and assistants conducted an eye surgery on a leopard. Conducted between 11 am and 2 pm on Sunday, the operation was necessitated by old wounds the leopard had suffered after several bouts of in-fighting in the …
You don't have to visit the Kanha National Park or the Sunderbans to catch a glimpse of the royal tiger any more. The Sanjay Gandhi National Park at Borivali, as part of its Rs 5-crore five-year scheme to promote eco-tourism in Mumbai, is displaying two of its newly acquired yellow …
the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Borivli, a bustling industrial suburb of Mumbai, is under threat. An unholy nexus of builders, slum lords, bureaucrats, and their political patrons is responsible for organised destruction of the park. The deteriorating condition of the park
The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) has been charged with disturbing the flora and fauna in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Goregaon near the Film City for a proposed conservation education project conceived by the late ornithologist Salim Ali. Park officials refused to grant a no-objection certificate for the …
