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 …
An extensive survey was carried out to locate breeding colonies and nests of vultures in Rajasthan. A total of 5,080 vultures of 7 different species were counted in 23 districts of Rajasthan. Many serious threats to these vultures were recorded during the study other than 'diclofenac', like habitat loss, predation …
JULY 2008: Hope had almost died, much like the sanctuary at Bharatpur, starved of water and life for nearly five years. As the monsoon approached, many a hopeful eye looked to the sky. This time, the gods did not disappoint and rain drenched a parched earth. The first to test …
The water-starved Keoladeo National Park in Bharatpur, Rajasthan, whose Unesco status of world heritage site is under threat due to persistent water crisis, can finally soak some hope. The Supreme Court-constituted central empowered committee (CEC) has sanctioned Rs 65 crores to this sanctuary for water harvesting projects and maintaining its …
A proposal for water supply to Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur was forwarded by the Government of Rajasthan seeking assistance from Planning Commission as advised and approved by the Ministry of Environment and Forests vide their letter dated 10.04.2008. As per the Ministry of Environment and Forests the proposal , is …
Why is the Keoladeo National Park attracting fewer birds? ONCE THE PRIDE Siberian cranes no longer visit Keoladeo I had heard a lot about Keoladeo and for the last three years had waited for the right time to go there
A model for the wetland part of KNP is presented and analyzed. Two-dimensional parameter scans suggest that this minimal model possesses dynamical complexities. Per capita availability of water to
The objective of the present report is 1) to focus on the present and past status of Sarus Crane 2) to throw light on the factors responsible for population decline, if any and 3) to recommend measures for Sarus conservation in the region. The study was conducted in selected areas …
Nine species of vultures are recorded from the Indian subcontinent. The populations of three resident Gyps species, namely Oriental White-rumped Vulture Gyps bengalensis, Long- billed Vulture Gyps indicus and Slender-billed Vulture Gyps tenuirostris crashed during the mid nineties of the last century. Vulture declines were first documented at Keoladeo National …
The conflict over the use of the waters of the Panchna dam for the Keoladeo National Park, in which upstream farmers in the command area of the dam have staged protests, is about rapidly decreasing water supply amidst a growing number of users. There is a need to increase the …
• Kanchan Chopra has valued the biodiversity of Keoladeo national park using the travel cost method (TCM) to value tourism and recreation. TCM assumes people value a forest in terms of the cost of getting there as well as the opportunity cost of time spent travelling. A survey of people …
the Keoladeo National Park in Rajasthan is facing an unprecedented shortage of water. Though the rainfall in the region was normal last year, the usual flow to India's most famous wetland
Four water and sediment samples were drawn from Keoladeo National Park Lake, Bharatpur to monitor pesticide residues. Estimation was done by GC-ECD using multiresidue method for organochlorine and synthetic pyrethroid insecticides.
World heritage site, the Keoladeo National Park of Bharatpur, Rajasthan, is known to attract aquatic birds from all over the world every year. This year, however, the nests are all empty, and the park reeling under a severe drought thanks to squabbling political forces. The problem centres round the Panchana …
keoladeo national park in Bharatpur, Rajasthan, is fast losing its population of rare birds due to unchecked human habitation. The human population around the forest has registered a 24 per cent growth over the last 10 years. This is threatening bird migration, says a study conducted by the United Nations …
Why have the Siberian cranes stopped coming to India? Since the mid-70s, about 12-15 per cent of the Siberian cranes coming to the Keoladeo Ghana National Park have been juveniles. This has meant excellent productivity. Last winter, the percentage of juveniles remained normal although the total number of cranes continued …
THE Rajasthan government has been asked by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Rajasthan, to find alternative sites to the Keoladeo Ghana National Park near Bharatpur so that the pressure of the visitors to the 2,900-hectare sanctuary can be reduced. According to the secretary of WWF, Harsh Vardhan, Kalakh …
