Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
CP1, a tiger introduced in the Sariska Reserve on August 28, 2008 aspart of the relocation programme, was found dead in the Tehlarange on Sunday. The carcass was consigned to flames on Monday. JAIPUR: Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh announced in Sariska on Wednesday Rs.30 …
BHUBHNESWAR: It seems Ministry of Environment and Forests has its attention trained on Orissa. After the Vedanta and Posco issues, Union Minister Jairam Ramesh has shot off a letter to the State government asking it to take necessary action against recurrence of electrocution of elephants. In last two months, at …
LUCKNOW: Evicting tribals and traditional dwellers from tiger reserves is not always the solution. Creating a stake for them in reserves could also be an option. The biggest tiger reserve of the country, Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam has its security manned by its tribal folks `Chenchus'. The step taken by Andhra Pradesh forest …
Acting on the recommendation of a task force, the government has now decided to declare the elephant a 'national heritage animal' and launch a major conservation exercise to protect the elephants. It will soon set up a National Elephant Conservation Authority, on the lines of National Tiger Conservation Authority. An …
Ranthambore: With instructions from the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), the state forest department has begun search for alternative tiger habitats in the state for a Sariska repeat. The instructions came during the recent visit of the director NTCA Rajesh Gopal following four instances of man-animal conflict in and around …
Anindo Dey | TNNRanthambore: The state forest department has begun search for alternative tiger habitats in the state like the Sariska, following instructions from the National Tiger Conservation Authority. The instructions came during a recent visit of NTCA director Rajesh Gopal following four instances of mananimal conflict in and around …
LUCKNOW: The proposed tiger reserve in Pilibhit, second in UP after Dudhwa, seems to have hit a roadblock. Though cleared in principle in 2008 by the Union ministry of environment and forest and the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), the project could be on hold till serious concerns raised by …
The spree of elephant killings in the Simlipal Tiger Reserve in Odisha seems to have caught the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and Environment Ministry on the wrong foot. For, three successive committees have been formed in the last three months - all aimed at controlling the unabated jumbo deaths …
Field staff of Simlipal Tiger Reserve, the fourth-largest tiger reserve in the country, burnt a large number of elephant carcasses to remove any evidences of poaching, a probe committee of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has found. After a number of elephant deaths were reported in April and May …
New Delhi: The Union ministry for environment and forests has set up a fourmember committee headed by retired environment secretary Meena Gupta to investigate if the Orissa government has complied with the Forest Rights Act at the Posco site. The ministry
Worried over Similipal Tiger Reserve turning into a second Sariska, the National Tiger Conservation Authority has pressed panic buttons to save the wildlife there facing extinction. The fourth largest tiger reserve in the country reported a staggering 40 per cent decrease in its tiger population (from 101 to 61) in …
The extraordinary spectacle of a tigress sitting in a pond with a crowd of curious onlookers standing perilously close to her, outside the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR), which this newspaper carried on July 3, made the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) sit up and take notice. NTCA Member-Secretary Rajesh Gopal …
K P Sai Kiran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The controversy surrounding the night-time traffic ban along the 13-km stretch of the National Highway 212 running through the Bandipur National Park in Karnataka, is getting more vexed with the National Tiger Conservation Authority joining the issue. The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has decided …
Debabrata Mohanty A two-member expert committee of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has started its investigation into the biggest ever poaching of elephants inside Orissa's famous Simlipal Tiger Reserve after two wildlife activists of Mayurbhanj district took off the lid on the incident. Following petitions by wildlife activists to …
Tiger Authority to evaluate field management of 39 reserves Concerned over the dwindling tiger population and rise in man-animal conflict, the National Tiger Conservation Authority has decided to evaluate the actual field management of 39 tiger reserves across the country. "Project tiger had been rated as one of the most …
Big cats of Bandipur Tiger Reserve can now prowl about in peace. The Karnataka government has decided to speed up its 2008 plans to set up a unique task force to protect tigers of the reserve. But before that, they got an earful from New Delhi-based National Tiger Conservation (NCTA) …
Mumbai: Left-wing extremism and insurgency are being cited as the major reason for rising number of tiger deaths reported across various reserves in the country. An assessment made by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), a nodal body set up by the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF), reveals that …
