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 …
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) and National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) informed the National Green Tribunal on Wednesday that they will be submitting a plan on the mitigation measures for movement of animals across NH7 in two weeks. The NGT has been hearing a matter …
Justice Swatanter Kumar, chairperson of National Green Tribunal (NGT), principal bench, at Delhi on Wednesday squarely blamed respondents MoEFCC, NHAI, and Maharashtra Forest Department for the NH7 road widening mess created due to Nagpur bench of Bombay high court's orders conflicting with NGT's own. Justice Kumar also spoke about how …
DEHRADUN: During the tiger census last year, 22% of the of big cats in the country were found to roam in areas that were not tiger reserves or protected forests. Now, an international effort has begun to better protect tigers that roam the forest divisions of Ramnagar, Haldwani, Terai east …
Caught between the devil and the deep sea on NH-7 four-laning, the Maharashtra forest department, Union ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEFCC), National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), and Wildlife Institute of India (WII) have finally struck a deal over wildlife mitigation measures …
The principal bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT) at Delhi on Monday blasted the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) for not filing its reply in NH7 road widening between Mansar and Khawasa near the Pench Tiger Reserve. On Monday, Srushti Paryavaran Mandal, a city-based NGO which moved NGT against road …
JAIPUR: Wildlife lovers, who claim that T-24 was shifted from Ranthambore National Park following pressure from the hotel lobby and demanding that it be brought back from captivity in Sajjangarh biological park, have now dug out a RTI reply from 2011 from the forest department. In response to the RTI, …
Amid concerns that tigers may have disappeared from West Bengal's Buxa Tiger Reserve, foresters have claimed that the habitat of the big cat has shrunk to a small area on the foothills. "Tigers have not disappeared from Buxa. The habitat has moved to the foothills of Buxa which are close …
NAGPUR: The 138.12 sq km Bor Tiger Reserve (BTR), 60km from here in Wardha district, will have a buffer zone of 661.16 sq km. This is nearly five times the tiger reserve area itself. Bor (61.10 sq km), New Bor (60.69 sq km) and Extended New Bor (16.31 sq km) …
NAGPUR: The union highways and transport ministry headed by Nitin Gadkari and environment ministry by Prakash Javadekar seem headed for a face-off over wildlife mitigation measures in four-laning of NH-7 and NH-6 in the Central Indian landscape. The latest report on proposed mitigation measures for maintaining habitat contiguity and reducing …
Bengaluru: When the national tiger census report was released in January this year, Karnataka had every reason to feel proud. The state is now home to 406 tigers, the highest in the country. There is 35% rise in the number of big cats compared to the previous 2010 census. And …
NAGPUR: Amid strong arguments, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Delhi, on Monday continued the stay on working permission granted to National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for felling trees to divert 49.246 hectare forest land for four-laning of NH7 between Mansar and Khawasa. On May 6, hearing a 500-page petition filed …
The high-powered committee of Central and State government officials, constituted by the Gauhati High Court, conducted a survey of the encroachments in Kaziranga National Park on Sunday and directed local authorities to clear them within one month. The committee was led by Commissioner and Secretary (Revenue) PK Tiwari and it …
North Bengal's Buxa Tiger reserve has survived another scare. While there were rumours that it would be stripped of the 'tiger reserve' status after scientists saw no signs of the big cats there, the Centre has decided to give park officials another chance to improve the habitat to support a …
Delhi announces three new reserves in central and eastern states following survey result that showed 30% rise in tiger population India is planning to create three more tiger reserves in the country, environment minister Prakash Javadekar announced in the parliament on Tuesday. The development comes in the wake of a …
Paper questions the methodology used by govt to show 30% rise in tiger population The debate over the 30% rise in the number of India's tigers -as estimated in the latest national tiger census -has taken a new turn.Days after a research paper was published in an international scientific journal, …
Several initiatives have been taken by govt for conservation and protection of tigers and other wild animals in the country. The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has accorded final approval to two national parks for being declared as tiger reserves, the Lok Sabha was informed today. "The NTCA has accorded …
After six long years, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) on Tuesday finally gave the state forest department the go ahead to release one of the two tigresses, kept in an enclosure in Pench Tiger Reserve, back in the wild. The other will be sent to a zoo. Three tigers …
Tiger reserves may not be solely about conservation. They also have tremendous economic value, the first ever Economic Valuation of Tiger Reserves in India, published by the Centre for Ecological Services Management (CESM) and Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal, a couple of months ago has revealed. Of the six …
The Odisha government has courted controversy by claiming that the number of tigers in the state is around 60. The All India Tiger Estimation Report, 2014, released in January 2015, reported a fall in Odisha's tiger population to 28 from 32 in 2010 and 45 in 2006. "We are yet …
The Wildlife Institute of India is set to submit a report to the National Tiger Conservation Authority and the Union ministry for environment and forest in the first week of April to start use of drones in tiger reserves. This aims at increasing vigilance on reserves such as Sahyadri Tiger …
