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 …
Bhubaneswar: The Centre has approved the state government's proposal to declare boundary periphery areas of Sunabeda and Debrigarh wildlife sanctuaries as eco-sensitive zones (ESZ). Official sources said the Centre will soon come up with a notification in this regard. Once declared an ESZ, demarcated areas beyond the sanctuary boundary will …
MORIGAON (Assam): As Assam continues to reel under the devastating impact of floods, the Brahmaputra river has submerged 60 per cent of the rhino habitat Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary located in Morigaon district near Guwahati. The floods have also damaged around 50 per cent infrastructure of the Sanctuary which is the …
Aurangabad: A high-powered committee of Union government recently gave in-principle approval to the long-pending proposal of declaring 500m area around the Jayakwadi Bird Sanctuary as eco-sensitive zone, prohibiting commercial activities in the buffer area. However, the committee categorically spared the farmers residing in the zone area by allowing them to …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of POWERGRID Corporation of India Limited Vs Deputy Conservator of Forest, Thane Forest Division dated 08/07/2016 construction work of 765KV D/c (Hexa) Aurangabad – Padghe Transmission Line in the area coming within 10 Kms from the boundary …
The Pune Bench of the National Green Tribunal has its jurisdiction over Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa and Daman and Diu. Despite Goa being the smallest among the three States in this jurisdiction – smaller in size than some districts of Maharashtra and Gujarat – 45 percent of the cases filed in …
Last Thursday, on June 23, the provincial governor of South Kivu formally approved the boundaries of the Itombwe Reserve in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the last strongholds of the Grauer’s gorilla. Conservationists have cheered this move. The Itombwe massif is home to more than 750 species of …
DAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tanzania's decision to halt a multi-million dollar energy project to protect a wildlife sanctuary and farming land is a "victory" for vulnerable local communities, a global aid agency said. The $569 million bioelectricity plant threatened to evict more than 1,500 villagers from their …
The Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary in Mandya district, located close to Srirangapatna and about 16 km from Mysuru, is one step closer to having an Eco-Sensitive Zone (ESZ) around it to pave way for greater protection. The Ministry of Environment and Forests has issued a draft notification for the ESZ and …
Wildlife experts in Malawi will next month start moving up to 500 elephants to a sanctuary that they hope could eventually serve as a reservoir to restore some elephant populations in other parts of Africa where the threatened species has been heavily poached. The massive relocation, slated for completion next …
Baltimore's National Aquarium will create the first U.S. dolphin sanctuary and transfer its eight Atlantic bottlenose dolphins there, the aquarium said on Tuesday. The move comes after five years of study and as the U.S. public has grown increasingly uneasy about keeping dolphins and whales in captivity, National Aquarium Chief …
In a rare victory for landless villagers in Africa, more than 1,500 people have been spared eviction to make way for an energy plant after the Tanzanian government halted the project citing concern for wildlife in a nearby sanctuary. The bioelectricity plant was to be built in Saadani National Park …
Wildlife authorities in Thailand on Monday raided a Buddhist temple where tigers are kept, taking away three of the animals and vowing to confiscate scores more in response to global pressure over wildlife trafficking. The Buddhist temple in Kanchanaburi province west of Bangkok has more than 100 tigers and has …
The Union Ministry for Environment, Forests and Climate Change has approved the declaration of 275 zones around wildlife sanctuaries and national parks in the country as 'ecologically sensitive', including six in Gujarat. Union Minister of State for Environment Prakash Javadekar gave this information in the Rajya Sabha in reply to …
Elephant poaching in northern Tanzania's wildlife sanctuary, Tarangire National Park, has gone down for the past two years, a senior park official said on Sunday. Park tourism officer Geoffrey Mboma said that killing of elephants in the park for their tusks has been largely contained, and between July 2014 to …
It is spread over 308.22 sq. km around the boundary of the sanctuary The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change recently notified an extent of 4.83 km covering 14 villages around the Bhimgad Wildlife Sanctuary in Khanapur taluk of Belagavi district as ecologically sensitive zone (ESZ). As per …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of Puducherry Environment Protection Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 22/02/2016. The prayer in this application is to issue permanent injunction restraining the respondents from withdrawing or permitting the withdrawal of water from Oussudu lake for …
PANJIM: With the government intending to promote eco-tourism in eco-sensitive areas (ESA), the process to draft Zonal Master Plans for each of notified ESA around six wildlife protected areas has begun. The plan will categorize various activities under three different heads – permitted, prohibited and regulated. The Zonal Master Plan …
Final decision after receiving reports about the big cat’s presence; Forest Department currently undertaking tiger census which will end in 2017 PANJIM: With the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) pitching for a tiger reserve corridor along Goa, Karnataka and Maharashtra, the Goa government has finally expressed its desire to declare …
“There has to be a right balance. Environmentally, though permissions have been granted for mega projects, at times the conditions applied are a bit too stringent,” Bhatia said. Striking a balance between environment and development, better marketing of infrastructure works, and more effective communication between multiple agencies are key if …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Puran Chand & Others Vs State of Himachal Pradesh through its Secretary Environment to the Government of Himachal Pradesh & Others dated 02/02/2016 regarding regarding the Renuka Dam project across river Giri. River Giri is a perennial river which flows …
