Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Ujjwal Sharma Vs Union of India & Others dated 10/01/2025. An application was registered on the basis of a news item titled "1 Kodo poisoning behind elephant deaths in MPs Bandhavgarh All you need to know" …
The increasing global temperature may spell doom for the Sunderban tigers as a WWF study has cautioned that rise of 28 centimetre in sea levels will engulf 96 per cent of their habitat. The findings, though specific for Bangladesh, may be a cause of concern for India as well because …
The tiger census to be carried out in 2010 will see more camera traps being installed in the field to capture the movements of big cats. This, among other strategies, will be employed for census. The training of UP Forest officials conducted by the Wildlife Institute of India under Project …
P. Oppili It will streamline functioning of Project Tiger A memorandum of understanding will be signed soon State has three Project Tiger Reserves CHENNAI: A
State Environment and Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain today informed that the State has entered into a tripartite agreement involving the National Park Authority and the Central Government for the implementation of the Project Tiger Foundation in the State. Assam is among the five States of the country to have entered …
A green backdrop in the wake of the recent monsoon fails to hide the stumps of fullygrown Sagaun trees that once stood on Kashiram"s fields in Dadudhana village of Betul district. The septuagenarian Dalit, along with his son Ramcharan, still awaits payment from a dodgy contractor who logged 200 trees …
The wildlife in Bandipur is endangered by highway traffic----- Death Count ? A tiger and an elephant ? Seven langurs, two leopards ? Six mongoose, three sloth bear ? Nineteen spotted deer, eleven sambhar, ten shikras, nine Indian hare ? Eleven bonnet macaque, six red-vented bulbul, seven jungle owlet, eight …
NEW DELHI, July 14: Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh informed the Rajya Sabha in a written reply to a question put by Nand Kishore Yadav and Kamal Akhtar that Rs 682.68 crore was allocated from 1973-74 to 2009-10 for the Project Tiger scheme in which a …
New Delhi, July 3 In a boost to tiger conservation efforts, the Centre has approved a proposal for implementing the tripartite agreement between the Environment Ministry, State Governments and tiger reserves. The proposal for the MoUs, cleared by the Cabinet on Friday, aims at strengthening tiger conservation initiatives and develops …
In what could rouse both suspicion and relief, a State-level committee constituted by the Chief Wildlife Warden of West Bengal on the directions of the Centre to assess the damage caused to the Sundarbans Tiger Reserve by cyclone Aila, has claimed there were
Calcutta, May 25: At least 300 captive deer were swept away as the cyclone battered the fragile Sunderban mangroves and foresters were worried that there might have been heavy losses to wildlife. The deer washed away by the floodwaters were housed in two government-run breeding centres at Jharkhali and Bakkhali.
CHENNAI: The source populations of tigers are still available in the designated Project Tiger areas, and this can help in maintaining the population of the big cats in the wild, said Rajesh Gopal, Member Secretary, National Tiger Conservation Authority, here on Monday. Speaking at the opening session of the two-day
NEW DELHI/ BHOPAL: In an operation which has broken most guidelines set down by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), a breeding tigress was airlifted from Kanha to Panna tiger reserve on Monday morning. According to camera-trapping evidence by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), there are no tigers or …
Kaziranga (Assam): Ten tiger deaths in three months, 42 deaths in eight years, yet officials at the Kaziranga National Park, home to one of the largest number of tigers in India, are of the opinion that tiger population here is
After an inordinate delay, the Kaziranga National Park would finally receive funds under the Project Tiger. An amount of nearly one crore rupees, sourced from the Union Government has been released by the State Government. Well-placed sources in the Department of Forest, Assam, told The Assam Tribune that although late …
This study estimates the recreational demand for the Indian Sundarban, which is a World Heritage site and a complex mangrove ecosystem that borders India and Bangladesh. In 2005-06, the Indian Sunderban received some 64,000 visitors, mainly from Kolkata and other parts of West Bengal. Tourism to the Sunderban is highly …
