Counter affidavit by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) in the matter of Pradeep Singh Shekhawat Vs State of Assam & Others dated 30/01/2025. The application complained about the illegal constructions, including the illegal construction of road to Bhuban Hill, within the Barak Bhuban Wildlife Sanctuary located …
The Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) has recommended to the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest to provisionally notify the limits of Ecologically Sensitive Zones. It suggested that the final delimitation be carried out with extensive inputs from local communities and local bodies. The panel, headed by Madhav Gadgil, …
In a setback to Suryachakra Power Venture, the Ministry of Environment and Forests has deferred clearance for a 1,320-MW coal-based power plant being developed by the company in Madhya Pradesh as it apparently falls within the buffer zone of a tiger reserve. Suryachakra Power Venture is a subsidiary of BSE-listed …
The proposal for the creation of a tiger reserve in Sathyamangalam forests has reached an advanced stage and is expected to land in the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests for approval by the end of January 2012. The Forest Department has completed identifying the core and buffer zones for …
BARNADI (UDALGURI), Dec 26 – Has the elusive pigmy hog that catapulted Barnadi wildlife sanctuary into global prominence following the rediscovery of the pigmy hog and hispid hare in 1971 (after both were thought to be extinct) done the disappearing act again? Conservationists and foresters alike are groping in the …
LUCKNOW: Ganga has been chosen as abode for the young ghariyals this year too. The Kukrail Rehabilitation Centre will release 150 ghariyals in Hastinapur sanctuary along the Ganga. The first lot of 75 ghariyals was released towards the start of the month, while the second lot will be released by …
Dhubri, Dec. 22: After years of movement and persuasion at the bureaucratic level, the Assam Assembly will discuss tomorrow if Sareswar Beel (wetland) can be called a bird sanctuary. The lake is under the BTAD and Gouripur Assembly constituency in Dhubri district. Nature’s Friends, an NGO, has been spearheading an …
A Goa Government panel has recommended capping mining activity in the coastal state at 20 million tonnes in the next four years to protect the fragile ecosystem and reduce the social stress. Goa Golden Jubilee Development Council (GGJDC), headed by scientist Raghunath Mashelkar, has pointed out that unbridled mining activity …
The 134.88 sq km area of Chincholi forest in Karnataka has now been declared South India’s first dryland wildlife sanctuary to protect the prime wolf and hyena habitat. The Karnataka State Forest Department notified the forest on November 28, marking another step by Karnataka to conserve prime wolf and hyena …
The dried bamboo groves inside the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary and the adjacent sanctuaries such as the Rajiv Gandhi National Park, Nagarhole, and the Bandipur Tiger Reserve in Karnataka are posing a threat to the wildlife population of the Nilgiri Biosphere, a major tiger and elephant habitat. The bamboo groves in …
Leading ecologists, wildlife biologists, conservation experts and research scholars of the country on Thursday came up with a number of workable strategies to meet conservation challenges in the northeast at the conclusion of the three-day Young Ecologists Talk and Interact (YETI), 2011, held at the Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati. Initiating …
The 134.88 sq km area of Chincholi forest in Karnataka has now been declared as South India’s first dryland wildlife sanctuary to protect the prime wolf and hyena habitat. The Karnataka State Forest Department notifying the forest on November 28, marking another step by Karnataka to conserve prime wolf and …
Young Ecologists Talk and Interact (YETI), the largest student-organised academic conference on ecology and conservation, brought together over 300 students and researchers of ecology on a single platform at IIT-Guwahati here on Tuesday for a three-day-long deliberations on latest biodiversity and conservation issues. The conference kick started with Professor S.K. …
With 14 Deaths, Uttarakhand Tops Casualty List, K’taka Second New Delhi: Fifty-one tigers have died in different states of India between January and December 5, 2011, according to statistics collated by a prominent wildlife NGO. A tigress shot dead outside Kaziranga Park in Assam on Monday is the latest in …
Forest dept assuages farmers’ concerns regarding ecologically-sensitive zone tag It will be curtains on resorts around the Bandipur Tiger Reserve, with people in the forest fringes, including elected representatives, raising objections. The meeting with the locals to discuss the notification of ecologically sensitive zone (ESZ) around the tiger reserve has …
As many as 139 greater flamingos were electrocuted in the Kutch Desert Wildlife Sanctuary ten days ago, forest officials said on Thursday. Following the incident, reflectors and flags have been placed and guards deployed near the towers carrying high tension cables. “Some 139 greater flamingos were electrocuted 10 days ago …
PANJIM: Almost after 12 years, the notification issued by government declaring Mhadei Wildlife sanctuary has been challenged before Bombay High Court at Goa by Health Minister Vishwajit Rane. Rane has moved High Court challenging the notification issued by Forest department in June 1999, declaring an area admeasuring 208 sq kms …
To foster public awareness about the need to protect the country's diminishing tiger population, former MP Kamal Morarka is presenting a weeklong solo exhibition of pictures of the magnificent big cats captured by him during his trips to India's various sanctuaries. The exhibition – first mounted at Mumbai's Jehangir Art …
PANJIM: Congress MLA Dayanand Narvekar has urged the State Forest Ministry to cancel Environment Clearances (EC) granted for mines operating in wildlife sanctuaries or forest areas. In a letter written to the Forest Minister Filipe Neri Rodrigues, Narvekar has said that clearances granted to mines in wildlife sanctuaries or forest …
PANJIM: In what could give relief for 18 mines around wildlife sanctuaries, Goa government Thursday submitted to High Court that they are withdrawing the suspension of Environment clearance order issued to M/s Bandekar Bros Pvt Ltd. Bandekar mines figures in the list of 18 mines, which were issued wildlife clearance …
The High Court of Karnataka on Wednesday refused to grant permission for the proposed translocation of 25 elephants from Alur forest range to Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary. During the hearing of a suo motu petition over increasing elephant deaths, the Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Vikramjit Sen and Justice A S …
