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) …
Guwahati, Oct. 7: Mizoram has opposed the National Board for Wildlife’s recommendation to erect fencing inside Dampa tiger reserve, as it will restrict the movement of wildlife to and from Bangladesh. The National Board for Wildlife had asked the state forest department for its views before setting up border outposts …
Guwahati: Significant tiger presence has been confirmed in Mizoram’s Dampa reserve forest through DNA fingerprinting techniques. The presence of the big cats were confirmed during a joint field survey was conducted with the forest reserve’s field directorate, World Wildlife Fund and Aaranyak, a society for biodiversity conservation, in March this …
Itanagar: Infectious diseases afflicting people in remote areas of the Northeast are not only a problem for the humans, they also indirectly affect the wildlife in sanctuaries. A study conducted by the Bangalore-based National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) has revealed how malaria among the staff in the Pakke Tiger …
Guwahati, July 3: The Northeast has finally got a voice in the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), the apex body of tiger conservation in the country. Firoz Ahmed, a wildlife biologist with Aaranyak who has carried out camera trapping in wildlife parks of Assam, has been inducted as a member …
AIZAWL, Nov 26: The tiger habitat analysis in Dampa Tiger Reserve (DTR) in western Mizoram has found that closed evergreen or semi evergreen forest in the tiger reserve has considerably decreased over the last few decades. The report of the analysis to the State Environment & Forest Department today disclosed …
Aizawl, Sept 9: The World Bank is expected to give Rs 1,700 lakh for maintenance of Mizorams Dampa Tiger Reserve. The Dampa Tiger Reserve, situated on the western part of Mizoram along the international border with Bangladesh, about 127 km from Aizawl, is one of the six approved tiger reserves …