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) …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Katiya Haidarali Ahmadbhai & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 23/09/2020. The matter related to illegal encroachment in Wild Ass Sanctuary, Little Rann of Kutch. It was said that thousands of illegal salt industries were running in the …
AHMEDABAD: The State Board for Wildlife has approved a 23-km Narmada Canal branch from Suvai to Chobari in Kutch district, and also given its go ahead for a 289.32-km long 765 KV high tension line between Bhuj and Deesa. A 10-km stretch of the high-tension power line, to be installed …
Here is some good news for wildlife enthusiasts. Much like the Asiatic lions, the wild ass population in Gujarat has shot up to 4451, a jump of 454. This rather encouraging data was revealed in the 2015 wild ass census. The census also revealed another interesting facet — the growing …
Following an order of the Supreme Court on a petition on Monday, the green nod given to nine government and private projects in Gujarat by the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) has been kept in abeyance. These projects include a 40-km stretch of road passing through the Wild Ass Sanctuary …
Rajkot: Forest department has issued eviction notices to traditional saltpan workers in Little Rann of Kutch, asking them to vacate the wild ass sanctuary in the next seven days. Alleging that this will affect the voting by saltpan workers spread over the four districts of Rajkot, Surendranagar, Patan and Kutch, …
AHMEDABAD: Displaying exemplary concern for wildlife, Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan on Tuesday himself drove an open jeep for nearly 45 minutes through Dasada, the wild ass sanctuary in Kutch. It is not that he was required to drive the car for the Gujarat tourism department advertisement that he has been …
Gandhinagar: The Narmada canal’s movement towards Kutch has suddenly hit an environmental roadblock. Already under construction, the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd (SSNNL), which is Narmada project’s implementing agency, has now found to its utter bewilderment that it had never taken a crucial forest conservation Act clearance from the Government …
Indian wild ass, an equid species inhabits the saline-arid region of the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat. The species is increasingly threatened by developmental activities leading to habitat loss and fragmentation. It is currently listed as endangered in the IUCN red list of threatened species and in Schedule I of …
11-Km Canal Will Be Built To Carry Waters Through Wild Ass Sanctuary. Gandhinagar: Kutch will finally get Narmada waters with the Supreme Court clearing the construction of the 11-km-long Kutch Branch Canal (KBC). However, the wild asses, known to be shy and gentle animals used to the huge flat expanse …
Ahmedabad: An anxious animal husbandry department has been on its toes ever since suspected equine flu struck city police stables and claimed four horses. Equally concerned is the forest department as Gujarat's pride, the endangered Wild Ass in Rann of Kutch, is very vulnerable to the virus. In 1962-63, equine …
Ahmedabad: An anxious animal husbandry department has been on its toes ever since suspected equine flu struck city police stables and claimed four horses. The forest department is concerned as Gujarat's pride, the endangered Wild Ass in Rann of Kutch, is vulnerable to the virus. Currently, the number in Gujarat …
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: The state forest department has decided to have one more zone for effective monitoring of wild life sanctuaries in the state. This will be which will be the north Gujarat zone
AGNIMIRH BASU The earth is cracked and the horizon bare. The deathly silence is broken by the occasional whirring of crude-oil pumps. Women, going about their daily life in bright mirror-work lehangas, add a dash of colour to an otherwise arid background. This tough terrain has dominted 50-year-old Shantabhai Maganbhai …
"Engineers like me can't help marvel at the Agaria's skills,' says Vinay Mahajan of the Ahmedabad-based independent research institute Sandarbh Development Studies. Mahajan has co-authored a paper, Yet to be freed, on the lives of Agarias. In March-April, when the salt harvest is ready, dust laden winds can wreak havoc. …
Each wild ass in Little Rann of Kutch is set to cost the Gujarat government's coffers a minimum of Rs 7 lakh. This is the price the state government will be unwillingly paying for protecting the wild ass from the Narmada canal, proposed to pass through a 25 kilometre stretch …
