Affidavit filed by the Chief Wildlife Warden, Assam in the matter of news item titled "the last feral horses in India" appearing in Mongabay, November 5, 2024. The matter relates to the critically endangered status of feral horses in the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park as well as of smuggling of these …
The Rs 10,000-crore project requires diversion of 5,258 hectares of forest land, including 4,141 hectares of Panna Tiger Reserve. The standing committee of the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) Tuesday decided to clear Phase-I of the Ken-Betwa river linking project even though the expert committee constituted by the board is …
Despite dense forests, protected parks & villagers' refusals, project could get nod today The Forest Advisory Committee, the statutory authority of the environment ministry, is slated to appraise the Rs 2,200-crore diamond mine project of Rio Tinto in Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday for forest clearance. The mine falls in a …
Expert committee asks why opposition of MP wildlife officers was overruled The Centre's wait for Ken-Betwa river linking project's environment clearance (EC) has got longer as the Union environment ministry's expert committee has questioned the Madhya Pradesh government's decision to overrule its own senior wildlife officers who opposed state wildlife …
Hoping that they will get the approval in the next couple of months, project in-charge Ramesh said flying missions can start operations in the next six months. The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) is awaiting a final nod from the Ministry of Defence to start its ambitious drone monitoring project …
As India is home to nearly 70 per cent of world’s tiger population, the Union Environment Ministry is planning to relocate some of the big cats to Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar, where they have either become extinct or are on the verge of it. Experts from these countries recently took …
BHOPAL: Amid reports of depleting number of vultures from Indian skies and proposed submergence of its habitat in Panna National Park, Madhya Pradesh is carrying out its first ever vulture population estimation across the state. An 8-month-long exercise, which began in October, would last till May next year. Ken-Betwa (KB) …
Veteran conservationist and former director of Project Tiger Hemendra Singh Panwar has critiqued the ambitious Ken-Betwa river linking project for the impacts it will have on tigers and Ken River's biodiversity in a strong letter written to the environment ministry. Hitting out at the project's environment impact assessment (EIA) report …
The Centre's ambitious Rs 9,393 crore Ken-Betwa river interlinking project will impact "very significantly" the Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, a green panel has said while suggesting that the issue needs to be studied more carefully before granting final green signal. The Environment Ministry gives green nod to 'A' …
BHOPAL: Besides tiger habitat, 60% habitat of vultures, especially endangered Egyptian vulture, will be submerged in proposed Ken Betwa (KB) river link project in Panna tiger reserve of Madhya Pradesh. The reserve is "very important and rare" home to these vultures, meeting of state wildlife board was told, by forest …
The Madhya Pradesh Ecotourism Board's (MPETB) decision to set up three tiger safaris in the buffer zone of Pench, Bandhavgarh and Kanha tiger reserves has no mandatory sanction from National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), Central Zoo Authority (CZA) and subsequently the Supreme Court. Though a proposal in this regard has …
If the board okays the project, it would go for National Wildlife Board for further clearance Despite receiving a temporary setback from the state wildlife advisory board on the linking of the Ken river in Madhya Pradesh and Betwa river in Uttar Pradesh last month, the Madhya Pradesh government is …
The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government's controversial Ken-Betwa river link project is likely to face difficulties and delays as the environment ministry has deferred environment clearance for the project. An expert panel of the environment ministry appraising the project noted that the river-link will significantly affect the Panna Tiger Reserve …
Bhopal/Ahmadabad: Even as Madhya Pradesh's forest and water resources department (WRD) spar over 5,258 hectares of land that Panna tiger reserve is likely to lose in Ken-Betwa river-linking project, International Union for conservation of nature (IUCN) in its latest report has pointed out that Madhya Pradesh and other states of …
Study says human disturbance affecting breeding in Reserve High stress levels in tigers, caused by human activity, have affected their breeding in the Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan, a study says. Tigers were reintroduced in the Sariska and Panna tiger reserves after poaching, habitat loss and prey depletion made them …
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 …
Brainchild of Vajpayee and dream project of Narendra Modi, the Ken-Betwa river-linking project is embroiled in controversy over its environment impact assessment (EIA), which is replete with lies, say experts. The assessment report mentions presence of Sangai, an endangered brow-antlered deer only found in Manipur, at the Ken basin. The …
Uttar Pradesh may soon get its fourth tiger reserve, thanks to big cats strolling into the state from Madhya Pradesh's Panna reserve. The state government has proposed to develop Ranipur wildlife sanctuary in Chitrakoot (Bundelkhand region) into tiger reserve given its proximity to Panna. The two reserves are located at …
In what could be a major boost to technologically-empowered wildlife surveillance and research in India, plans are afoot to introduce unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones in 10 biodiversity-rich sites across India by January 2015. Following successful pilot runs in Madhya Pradesh's Panna Tiger Reserve (PTR) earlier this year, use …
UPA-II had dumped the project Buoyed up with BJP’s victory in general elections, state chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said he will expedite his demand for Ken-Betwa river linking project. The UPA-II had dumped the project. The project will be on top priority once Narendra Modi takes the saddle …
In a bid to boost tiger conservation efforts globally, International Fund for Animal Welfare-Wildlife Trust of India (IFAW-WTI) in collaboration with the Global Tiger Forum (GTF) has hosted a two-member team of Russian forest officers in India under the 'Tiger Watch Programme' that kicked off on February 24. It will …
