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) …
First, the bad news: Three elephants were killed when a local passenger train mowed through a herd in upper Assam's Jorhat district on Thursday. The good news: In Kaziranga National park, forest guards shot dead two poachers before they could kill any rhinos on Thursday. The Guwahati-Tinsukia Intercity Express hit …
Jorhat, Oct. 29: Schoolchildren from 13 Assam districts were taken on a day’s tour today to Gibbon wildlife sanctuary at Mariani to sensitise them about the need to conserve nature and wildlife. The students, who have been brought to Jorhat for a three-day educational tour under the Gyan Jyoti scheme, …
Jorhat: Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary in Mariani, formerly known as Gibbon wildlife Sanctuary or Hoollangapar Reserve forest, the only sanctuary in India reserved for Gibbon or long armed ape has now hit more headlines for its growing number of elephants. Although Assam Government had declared this forest as a Wildlife Sanctuary …
Jorhat, April 24: The forest department is taking up a project to harvest rainwater from three rain-fed channels that flow through Gibbon wildlife sanctuary from the hills in neighbouring Nagaland under Mariani forest range here. Almost every winter, water sources inside the sanctuary on the south bank of the Brahmaputra, …
March 21: On World Water Day tomorrow, when UN experts will mull ways to save the world’s shrinking freshwater resources, animals in Gibbon wildlife sanctuary in Jorhat will wake up to another thirsty day. Water sources inside the sanctuary, which is home to at least seven species of primates, are …
Guwahati, Oct. 19: A total of 130 to 150 schools in the Northeast will be shortlisted for project hoolock gibbon conservation awareness and education programme. The United States Fish and Wildlife Services under its Great Ape Conservation Fund had awarded the project to the Centre for Environment Education last year …
GUWAHATI, Nov 12: The Northeastern Regional Cell of the Centre for Environmental Education (CEE) is organizing a stakeholder workshop cum strategy discussion meet on the conservation of Hoolock Gibbons in the North-eastern States on November 13, 2009 at Shilpgram in Guwahati. A press release stated that schedule I endangered species, …
The only wildlife sanctuary in India named after a non-human primate, the Hoolock Gibbon, the Gibbon Sanctuary was going to adopt a project to connect both sides of the forest separated by the railway line to cross by the Hoolock Gibbons. But the experiment is now not working to the …
SENTINEL/GUWAHATI/04/05/2009 JORHAT, May 3: The Gibbon Sanctuary situated at Mariani area under Jorhat district has been plagued by a significant problem in case of population growth since last couple of years. According to the information, the problem arises due to the separation of the sanctuary by a train line which …
JORHAT, May 3: With an increase of the leopard population in the Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary, the frequency of leopards attacking humans or vice-versa has commensurately increased near the sanctuary. Last night one Kamal Hazarika was attacked by a leopard at Kachogoral, Sonarigaon and on March 6, a leopard was killed …
DIBRUGARH, April 26: The loud calls of a hoolock gibbon break the silence that sits heavily on the surroundings. Holding on to a tree branch with one long arm, the animal reaches out for a peeled orange offered by a child, who is visiting the Singpho Ecolodge with his parents, …
JORHAT, July 23: Gunin Saikia while providing a detailed account of the conservation status of several primate species found in the upper Brahmaputra of northeastern region laid stress on the initiation of Project Primate in line with Project Tiger and Project Elephant in order to divert immediate conservation attention to …
In fresh incidents of elephant depredation, as many as 15 houses were destroyed and two cows killed by a marauding herd in Katonibari Tea Estate and Gangapar areas near Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary last night. According to sources, the jumbos entered the labour lines in the tea estate by crossing over …
