Chennai: Tamil Nadu’s green power generation has increased with a high contribution of hydro power in the last two days. Heavy rain in the Nilgiris district helped contribute to the high hydro power generation. Along with wind and solar, the total green power generation crossed 38%. Tamil Nadu’s hydro power …
Ban order is being violated by many traders, consumers With concern growing among the officials and green activists over the direction in which the anti-plastics campaign is heading in the Nilgiris, the district administration has decided to step up measures to make it more effective. The Nilgiris Collector Archana Patnaik …
The latest national tiger estimation showing a 20 per cent increase in the number of big cats to 1,706 from 1,411 is cause for cheer, but leading experts and conservationists say the next focus should be on protecting its habitats and retaining their continuity and overall ecological quality. “Though the …
Pilot project in 20 acres; NBR to compete for UNESCO award The Coimbatore Circle of the Forest Department would soon embark on an ambitious plan to replace the exotic species in the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve (NBR) with Shola forests (one with tall fully grown trees) and grassland eco-system in a …
Officials asked to complete the works on time Udhagamandalam: In a bid to expedite the work on implementing the third water supply scheme to Udhagamandalam and its surrounding areas from the Parsons Valley Hydel Reservoir, near here, the Managing Director, Tamil Nadu Water and Drainage (TWAD) Board Gagandeep Singh Bedi …
Conservation efforts set in motion in 1973 paying rich dividends now Udhagamandalam: The Nilgiri landscape is ideal for conserving wild animals, observed the Field Director, Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, Rajiv K. Srivatsava, here on Monday. Presiding over a workshop on
Data to be compiled within a week Udhagamandalam: A census operation to update data relating to the population of wild animals in the Nilgiris North and South divisions and Gudalur got underway here on Friday with a training session for volunteers organised by the Forest Department with the help of …
The study was aimed at to investigate the hydro-edaphic properties of Woodland habitat of Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve (NBR) and their possible relationship with its flora.
The Nilgiri Marten Martes gwatkinsii is a rare and little known species endemic to the Western Ghats mountain range of Southern India. Information about its distribution and occurrence is largely lacking. This paper collates information about Nilgiri Marten presence in the Palni Hills in Tamil Nadu state and presents new …
Large carnivore conservation is akin to a multi-billion dollar riddle. Scores of researchers, activists, bureaucrats, politicians, livestock herders, and hunters each hold a clue to the solution, but cannot seem to be able to agree on how to bring it together. The large carnivores themselves are far from cooperative be …
Over the last several millennia, people have made steady inroads into the elephants’ natural habitat through agriculture and settlements along river valleys. With their habitats now fragmented, degraded and compressed, these mega-herbivores spill into human settlements thereby setting the stage for a highly volatile combat.
Tamil version of a GSI publication launched CHENNAI: The Government is working on a State Mineral Policy to streamline exploration and exploitation of mineral resources, Rajeev Ranjan, Principal Secretary (Industries) said on Friday. Addressing officials of the Geological Survey of India (GSI) at the launch of the Tamil version of …
Suzlon Energy and Lavasa Corporation are among the companies named in the bribery scam that led to the arrest of eight top officials of public sector banks and financial firms on November 24. The companies were allegedly raising loans from a Mumbai-based private financial firm that bribed the senior officials …
IN THE guise of green energy production, large-scale land transactions are taking place in Attappady, a backward tribal area in Kerala's Palakkad district. On August 8, district collector K V Mohan ordered the village administration in all six villages of Attappady to submit details of the land deals since January …
The unbridled growth of Coimbatore threatens the Nilgiri ecosystemSanjeev Sanyal / August 11, 2010, 0:42 ISTAll discussions about urbanisation in India tend to focus on mega-cities like Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore. However, in states like Tamil Nadu and Gujarat, smaller urban centres are also seeing rapid growth. At one level, …
Scars still remain on the hills of Nilgiris, or the Blue Mountains. The brown patches are not only testimony to the hundreds of landslides that killed around 50 people last November, but also of what over-exploitation and the real estate boom has done to the fragile ecosystem of the verdant …
C Shivakumar C Shivaku Chennai The project is awaiting clearance from the Ministry of Environment and Forest INO PROJECT: Access to the site is through poromboke land, says programme coordinator Prof Indumathi THE Rs 960-crore India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) project at Bodi West Hills is awaiting environmental clearance from the …
Wildlife enthusiasts fear fragmentation of elephant corridor Alternative measures to combat elephant intrusion suggested Coimbatore: The Southern Railway authorities have called off their efforts to dig an elephant-proof trench along the Nilgiris Mountain Railway (NMR) from Kallar. Following the killing of railway line maintenance staff recently and incidents of wild …
THE Samuga Samathuva Padai (SSP) led by former bureaucrat P Sivakami will petition Gover nor Surjit Singh Barnala to get the Integrated Tribal Development Project (ITDP) areas in Tamil Nadu to be declared as scheduled areas, which would bestow special protection to the tribals. According to a 1986 data, about …
P. Oppili CHENNAI: A team of experts from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will visit forest areas in Sathyamangalam, Coimbatore and the Nilgiris for three days from next Monday to approve funding for the State Forest Department's Natural Resources Management Project. A.S. Balanathan, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Head …
