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) …
The Forest Department has assured to conduct research and census of wildlife in a more transparent manner with the involvement of NGOs and students of various institutions from the State. According to Deputy Conservator of Forests (Wildlife) Ramesh Gauns Desai, the research and census of wildlife, which will be conducted …
The Central government in its notification on eco-sensitive zones, also known as buffer zones, around wildlife sanctuaries has asked the state government to prepare zonal master plans in consultation with the local people in two years time. These master plans for buffer zones should be integrated into the Regional Plan …
The Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has notified a 1-km eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) for five wildlife sanctuaries and a 3-km zone for Cotigao wildlife sanctuary recently. The demarcation of the ESZ or the buffer zone envisages a ban on mining and other activities in the case of four …
The ministry in its notification has prohibited all new and existing mining of minor and major minerals, stone quarrying and crushing units with immediate effect in all the six sanctuaries No mining will be allowed around the Eco Sensitive Zone (ESZ) of six wildlife sanctuaries and national parks in Goa …
All 22 working mining leases within the one km buffer zone of wildlife sanctuaries in the state will have to be shut down in a phased manner with a time-bound closure plan, as recommended by a committee constituted by the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF). The report by …
The Ministry of Environment and Forests has “in principle” agreed to one-km buffer zone for four wildlife sanctuaries of Goa ~ Mhadei, Netravali, Bhagwan Mahaveer and Bondla. The eco-sensitive zone for the Cotigao sanctuary has been extended upto 3 kms. In all total 33 mining leases are located within one …
The govt is treading cautiously inorder to develop infrastructure for the tribal community and at the same time maintains no human habitat near the Cotigao Wildlife Sanctuary The State government will have to strike a fine balance between human and animal welfare, as it plans to develop infrastructure for the …
PANJIM: Giving up its initial reluctance to include Goa region of Western Ghat in the World Heritage Site of UNESCO, Forest Department has finally admitted that Goa along with contiguous forests of Karnataka and Maharashtra, is one of the best potential tiger habitat in this bio-diversity hotspot. It has been …
Notwithstanding Opposition from the locals, the Forest department will go ahead with the public hearing at Cotigao for Critical Wildlife Habitat (CWH) scheduled on September 30. The residence of Cotigao and surrounding villagers are likely to strongly object to the declaration of the sanctuary as CWH during the public hearing …
IT IS the end of the road for the 450 MW thermal power plant near Karwar in Karnataka. On June 15, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests cancelled the coastal regulation zone (CRZ) clearance it granted for the construction of a coal unloading wharf for the power plant in …
Bondla wildlife sanctuary would be the first one to get tagged as Critical Wildlife Habitat (CHW), as entire process for the sanctuary to be notified is over. Senior forest department official told Herald that the department is awaiting node from the State government over the notification.
The Environment Ministry has rejected clearance given to a 450 MW power plant proposed in Uttar Kannada district in Karnataka for giving 'misleading information' about its distance from the Cotigao wildlife sanctuary. The rejection came following a report submitted by a team of the expert appraisal committee (EAC) members which …
The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report on the basis of which conditional environmental clearance for the proposed 450-MW Hankon thermal power project was granted is riddled with flaws, the report of a central committee reveals. The three-member committee, constituted by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) for a …
