Order of the High Court of Tripura in the matter of Court on its own motion Vs The Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare & Others dated 09/01/2025. The HC was informed that National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) has granted approval for establishing two new Facility-integrated ART Centres (Fi-ARTC) …
Sahyadri tiger reserve (STR) and the wildlife sanctuaries in Radhanagari and Sagareshwar will soon be equipped with more camera traps, tents and wireless systems. The department is spending Rs 71 lakh on the new equipment. The department has received approval from the state forest department to purchase the equipment and …
The forest department is considering to implement strict measures to maintain the wildlife corridor which connects Koyna wildlife sanctuary and Chandoli national park, both part of the Sahyadri tiger reserve (STR). The 7-km corridor will be protected for safe and natural movement of tigers, leopards and other wild animals in …
Researchers from the biodiversity department of Abasaheb Garware College have recorded the presence of 70 species of dragonflies in northern part of Western Ghats during a project funded by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the University of Pune (UoP). Four out of the 70 species were found in …
The national tiger census will begin at the Sahyadri tiger reserve (STR) from Thursday amid much curiosity, as no tiger was sighted in the 50 camera traps installed in the Chandoli national park and Koyna wildlife sanctuary over the past one-and-a-half months. More than 100 forest department personnel and wildlife …
PUNE: The state is in the process of declaring areas around national parks and wildlife sanctuaries as eco-sensitive zones. Of the 49 national parks and sanctuaries across the state, proposals for declaring eco-sensitive zones around 35 of them have already been sent to the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF). …
Environmental activists and experts have said that “green norms” are needed to regulate the country’s wind energy projects. It should include mandatory environment impact assessment (EIA), they added. The country’s wind power capacity wind power is expected to double in 2017. Many projects have been planned in forest areas and …
Pune: A recent study by citybased Ela Foundation and MES Abasaheb Garware College, to assess the impact of wind farms on birds at the Bhambarwadi Plateau in the northern Western Ghats, found 27 bird species out of 89 at the risk of collision with the rotor blades of the wind …
The human mind is brilliant, and enterprising. First we build dams and drown vast stretches of wilderness under reservoirs. But such artificial loads of water cause frequent, at times deadly, tremors. So next, we want to understand the quake dynamics by digging a few kilometres into the earth, threatening the …
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday asked the state government to disclose its stand on the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) report. The court had earlier said the report must be made public. The state government has been asked to file an affidavit by March 12. The WGEEP report …
Pune: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) recently shortlisted the Western Ghats for inclusion in the World Heritage list, taking this biodiversity rich area a step closer to protection from landuse change and other developmental activities. The 39 serial sites in the Unesco shortlist include four sites …
MUMBAI: A public interest litigation (PIL) seeking judicial intervention to protect the eco-fragile Sawantwadi-Dodamarg region from rampant mining and haphazard development has been filed in the Bombay high court. The 35-kilometre stretch in Sindhudurg district is an integral wildlife corridor for sanctuaries and national parks in the state, Goa and …
The protest march by villagers against the Sahyadri Tiger Project took an ugly turn on Monday evening when angry villagers pelted stones on the forest department (wildlife) office in Patan in Satara district. The villagers were agitating against the Sahyadri Tiger Project, which was initiated last year by combining the …
A proposal to set up the 800 sq km Sahyadri tiger reserve in the Western Ghats of Maharashtra is getting finishing touches. Sahyadri will be the state's fourth tiger reserve. "The state will submit the proposal to the National Tiger Conservation Authority which declares tiger reserves in the country,' the …
