Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of In Re: T N Godavarman Thirumalpad Vs Union of India & Others. The Supreme Court said that that the allotment of 11.89 hectare of reserve forest land in Survey No.21 Kondhwa Budruk in district Pune for agriculture purposes on August 28, …
ITANAGAR: In keeping with the new policy to conduct tiger census annually instead of every four years, the National Tiger Conservation Authority will start the exercise in the two tiger reserves of Arunachal Pradesh along with 37 others in the country this month. The number of tigers in the two …
Conservation measures in the Nilgiris are satisfactory, observed the Conservator of Forests, Coimbatore Circle, V.T. Kandasamy here on Wednesday. He was inaugurating a workshop on “Conservation Strategies for Vultures in the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve”, organised by the Forest Department, the Nilgiris North Division and the Nilgiri Wildlife and Environment Association …
Coal mining poses a serious threat to tigers in Chandrapur region, near the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve and must be reined in says this report by the Fact Finding Mission to the area organized by Greenpeace. Coal mining poses a serious threat to tigers in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur region, near the …
The forest officials of Panna Tiger Reserve worked in close nexus with poachers for over a decade, says an internal report prepared by the Intelligence Cell of the tiger reserve, which had lost all its tigers by 2008.
SHILLONG: Meghalaya Additional PCCF and Chief Wildlife Warden has said that the State has 47 tigers. He has said this based on the survey conducted in the State through a conventional method in the past three years. He further said: “We have been putting pressure on the Wildlife Institute of …
One of the most successful efforts to rehabilitate villagers from a tiger reserve is now being conducted at Madhya Pradesh’s Kanha park: 28 villages in the core reserve area have already been relocated and another 17 on the periphery are in the process of being shifted out. A senior Kanha …
The tiger population is facing a growing threat from heavy traffic with the ministry of surface transport demanding environmental clearances for 17 highways across tiger reserves from the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF). The Rajaji National Park in Uttarakhand is facing a massive problem as over 50,000 vehicles ply …
Public can contribute to the corpus; thrust on education, research Tiger conservation projects need not starve for funds henceforth. The State government has set up exclusive tiger conservation funds to finance conservation activities at tiger reserves. The State has five tiger reserves – Bandipur, Nagarhole, Dandeli (Anshi), Bhadra and Biligiranganathaswamy …
Monitoring of tiger populations is done at regular intervals of four years and is a crucial component of evaluating the efficacy of tiger conservation efforts. The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), Government of India (GoI) published a booklet containing the results of the All-India Tiger Estimation exercise for the …
The district administration has chalked a novel scheme to make Pathanamthitta plastic-free from November 14, according to District Collector, P.Venugopal. An official meeting convened by the Collector here the other day has resolved to make necessary arrangements to supply eco-friendly carry bags made of cloth, priced at Rs 1 and …
There was very little focussed attention in designating specific wildlife rich areas as sanctuaries or national parks. India had about 80 sanctuaries notified across the country by the early 1960s, of which four were noted for the gigantic congregation of waterfowl during winter months. Tamil Nadu had at that time …
Two orphaned cubs aged 8-10 months of either sex were monitored over a period of one and half years between October 2008-March 2010 in the fragmented landscape of Ranthambore Tiger Reserve (RTR), India. Both animals dispersed out into fragmented landscapes, however the male cub accidently ventured into human habitation and …
Chief Minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said in his message on the occasion of Wildlife Week that full protection should be given to wildlife along with increasing greenery. This occasion has assumed added importance since it is being observed during 150th inception year of International Forest Year and forest department. …
The State Forest and Wildlife Department has submitted a 10-year Tiger Conservation Plan (2011-12 to 2020-21) to the National Tiger Conservation Authority for conservation of the tigers and the biodiversity of the Parambikulam Tiger Reserve. The cost of the conservation plan is estimated at Rs.58.8 crore. The plan is “to …
It is viewed as a big step before declaring it as a tiger reserve In a significant step towards protecting the varied wildlife and as the next big step to declare it a tiger reserve, the State Government has expanded the Sathyamangalam wildlife sanctuary to 1.41 lakh hectares. Through a …
New Delhi The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) may have agreed with the discontinuing of `go/ no-go' classification for coal mining areas but is in no mood to allow unrestricted mining in dense forests. The ministry has now decided that some forest areas, a very small portion of the …
New Delhi: Here are cases of corruption at the highest level in handing out forest clearances. An inspector-general of forests, C D Singh, has been transferred out of the Forest Advisory Committee and a vigilance inquiry instituted against him and two other forest officials for allegedly fudging documents to clear …
The country’s biggest tiger reserve, Nagarjuna Sagar Srisailam, can now flaunt some extra stripes. Camera traps have recently photographed females with healthy cubs, and adult males not seen before in these parts, setting pulses racing. Forest officials estimate there at least 70 adults and 20 cubs in the reserve now. …
Whereas, the Bandipur National Park was formed by including most of the forest areas of the Venugopala Wildlife Park and its Sanctum Sanctorum at Bandipur in the year 1974. In the year 2001, after going through the due process of law the State Government vide its Notification No. FEE 211 …
Describe your study and its findings. From 2006 to 2009 over 70 per cent of the forest staff in the reserve, which lies in a protected area in the Eastern Himalayan global biodiversity hotspot, suffered from malaria. Its treatment cost park managers nearly three per cent of their total budget …
