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) …
As many as 310 Asiatic Lions, declared as endangered species, had died in its only abode, the Gir sanctuary in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat, in the past five years, Forest Minister Mangubhai Patel informed the state Assembly in a written reply to a question by a Congress member. Along …
The state government intends to change the newly devised eco-tourism police for the Gir sanctuary, the last abode of the Asiatic lions. The government intimated Gujarat high court on Wednesday that it planned to make changes in the policy following the "uproar" from the local people, particularly from Dhari in …
AHMEDABAD: After the Gujarat high court ordered the closure of illegal resorts and hotels around Gir sanctuary, the state tourism department had legalized them under its home stay policy. But the department has now said that such permission to illegal resorts is 'not within the ambit of its home stay …
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat high court on Thursday directed the state government to provide more information about the existence of commercial structures in different buffer zones, as per the new eco-tourism policy for Gir sanctuary, the last abode of Asiatic lions. The division bench had earlier sought to know the number of …
Five legislators from the constituencies around the Gir sanctuary have approached the Gujarat high court raising objections to the newly formed eco-tourism policy for the last abode of the Asiatic lions. Upon the HC's directions, the state government came up with a uniform eco-tourism policy that has laid down norms …
AHMEDABAD: The state forest department is getting ready to install GPS-aided 'camera traps' — a network of remotely operated system with motion and infrared sensors — in the Gir sanctuary. This will allow paperless monitoring of wildlife, especially lions, and for conducting habitat studies. A senior forest department officer said …
Is the Centre under NDA dispensation preparing to change its long-held position that Asiatic lions need a second home outside Gujarat's Gir sanctuary, and instead tilting towards the view of the state government which has steadfastly opposed the idea? Sources in the ministry of environment and forests said the Union …
Lion census 2015 has pegged that the empire of the king of jungle is spread over 22,000 sq km — 2,000 sq km in Gir sanctuary and the rest outside. Out of 20,000 sq km area that is outside the sanctuary, almost 15,000 sq km is in three districts — …
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat tourism department, following the notification of July 1 that has brought tourism department's home stay policy around Gir Sanctuary and other protected lion sanctuaries under its ambit, has decided to review all the permissions granted even before the notification was issued. The forest department in the notification tabled …
No new licences for hotels, resorts in one km area of the border of the forest that houses Asiatic lions The state government submitted its uniform policy on commercial establishments in the Gir forest that houses famous Asiatic lions, before the Gujarat High Court (HC) on Thursday. The new policy …
Rajasthan seems to be losing its tigers to Madhya Pradesh. The movement of tigers from Ranthambore national park in Rajasthan to Kuno-Palpur wildlife sanctuary has established the natural corridor between the two sanctuaries is functional. In April 2013, the Supreme Court had ordered translocation of Asiatic lions from Gujarat's Gir …
Sasan (Junagadh district): Gujarat's pride has become substantial as lion numbers in Gir have crossed the 500 mark to 523, registering a robust growth rate of 27%. The royal beasts have also expanded their territory by a good 109%. Interestingly, the tiger count which was announced last year after the …
The Gujarat high court on Tuesday asked the state government why it permits mining activity in an eco-sensitive zone around the Gir sanctuary. A bench headed by Justice Jayant Patel said that if the villages of Kekraj, Sanwada, Lavki and Bheswadi on the banks of Shetrunji River near Liliya in …
Niranjan Savani (39), a dentist in Pennsylvania, has taken urgent leave from work to come to India for two weeks. Not for any pressing personal engagement but to engage himself in the matters of heart — to take part in the four-day lion census beginning May 2. Like Savani, many …
The much awaited Asiatic Lion census, covering one of the biggest ever area in its census will cover over 1500 villages around the sanctuary. The nine month long exercise which began since June last year has revealed that the lions have found new homes in around 1500 villages in eight …
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat high court on Friday sought details from forest officials about incidents of fire, if any, caused by the mining mafia on the banks of Shetrunji river near Gir sanctuary for mining activity. Fire creates a lot of trouble for the wildlife in the protected area which is the …
Gujarat has finally presented a strong case to protect its pride — the Asiatic lion. Instead of taking refuge in technicalities, the state government has recently presented before the apex court scientific studies and guidelines of world's top conservation body — International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) — suggesting …
The Gujarat High Court has directed the state government to take action against the illegal establishments operating in the buffer zones of Gir wildlife sanctuary, the sole home of the Asiatic lions. Admitting a representation made by one Anil Chudasama as a PIL, a division bench of Justices Jayant Patel …
The state government has informed Gujarat high court that the proposed new eco-tourism zone on the coastal region in Amreli district, in the outskirt of Gir sanctuary in the last abode of Asiatic lions, will not affect the wild cat. The government has said that since lions' movement take place …
Amid the ongoing legal battle for the translocation of the Asiatic lions from Gir forest in Gujarat to Kuno Palpur Wildlife Sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh, shocking data of lion deaths and incidents of attack on humans by the wild cats including lions in and around Gir Sanctuary in last two …
