Order of the High Court of Tripura in the matter of Court on its own motion Vs The Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare & Others dated 09/01/2025. The HC was informed that National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) has granted approval for establishing two new Facility-integrated ART Centres (Fi-ARTC) …
As of mid-2020, no Critical Wildlife Habitats (CWHs) had been notified in the country. However, triggered by a petition in Mumbai High Court, the Maharashtra Forest Department constituted 54 Expert Committees for identifying CWHs in 54 Protected Areas (PAs) in the state in 2018-19, and processes towards declaration of a …
The wild cat, who was captured earlier this year in a conflict situation, has been radio-collared so that her movements can be monitored. Soon, tigress E-1 will be released into her new home at Melghat Tiger Reserve (MTR) in Amravati. The wild cat, who was captured earlier this year in …
Nagpur: In a bid to expedite work of conversion of metre gauge line to broad gauge between Akola and Khandwa which passes through Melghat Tiger Reserve (MTR), a four-member team constituted by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) will conduct a feasibility assessment of the project from August 13 to …
Nagpur: In a huge victory for the forest department, the Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court on Monday quashed and set aside Amravati sessions court order to suspend sentence of dreaded tiger poacher Bhajan Hotel Dhurve. Bhajan is an expert in killing tigers and operated in forests of Vidarbha. He …
A young tigress travelled around 150km from Bor Tiger Reserve to Pohra-Malkhed reserve forest in AmraAvati division once again highlighting the importance of preserving viable wildlife corridors. "Pohara-Malkhed forest, spread over 4,000 hectares, has always had indirect evidence of tiger presence but there were no confirmed direct sighting or camera …
Nagpur: The ministry of environment, forest and climate change seems to be engaged in giving a big push to projects falling within 10km of protected areas (PAs). After a gap of four months, the 32nd meeting of the standing committee of National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) will be held on …
Two engineers, a biology student and a product designer have teamed up to make a collar device that will help tigers protect themselves from metal traps, electrocution and poisoning — the three most widely used means of poaching. The 'Independent Anti-Poaching Device (IAPD)' is a sensor-based device to be fitted …
NAGPUR: The National Tiger Conservation Authority, a statutory body under the MoEF monitoring tiger reserves in the country, has directed all the reserves to incorporate supplementary guidelines to prepare tiger conservation plans (TCPs) and has set a deadline of June 15, to submit them. Like a working plan for territorial …
Pune: A debate is brewing between researchers over the proposed study of the critically endangered forest owlet near Melghat tiger reserve. While a section of experts emphasized the importance of research for the conservation of vulnerable species, activists and some scientists maintain that the bird can survive without any studies. …
The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) decision to allow capture of 20 forest owlets in east and west Melghat divisions outside Melghat Tiger Reserve (MTR) has come in for sharp criticism by former forest officials and conservationists. Forest owlet is listed as critically endangered by the International Union for …
NAGPUR: The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) decision to allow capture of 20 forest owlets in east and west Melghat divisions outside Melghat Tiger Reserve (MTR) has come in for sharp criticism by former forest officials and conservationists. Forest owlet is listed as critically endangered by the International Union …
Study finds that connectivity between protected areas is affected by urban expansion. Even as efforts are being made to protect, conserve, and augment the wild tiger population of the country, a study report that appeared in the open-access journal ‘Plos One’ earlier this month says that human intervention, even in …
PUNE: Researchers studying the critically endangered Forest Owlet in Madhya Pradesh hope to start a similar project in Maharashtra's Melghat tiger reserve soon. The reserve contains the largest known population of the bird found only in India. Being a protected area, it offers greater safety to the habitat of the …
Today, most wild tigers live in small, isolated Protected Areas within human dominated landscapes in the Indian subcontinent. Future survival of tigers depends on increasing local population size, as well as maintaining connectivity between populations. While significant conservation effort has been invested in increasing tiger population size, few initiatives have …
After spending over Rs283 crore on relocation of villages from reserves, sanctuaries and national parks in Maharashtra in the last 12 years, the state government would require a further Rs 900 crore, according to its own report, for its grand plan to free all the protected areas (PAs) from human …
The rich diversity of spiders in the Melghat forest reserve is facing severe threat from trading, urbanisation and forest fires among other factors that have led to a drop in their numbers in the region. Researchers from the Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University working in the forest area for over …
It Has Led To Several Man-Animal Conflicts And Forest Fragmentation Pune: Around 72,463 hectares of forest land in the state has been encroached upon, that has led to several man-animal conflicts over the last few years and also forest fragmentation. Latest data from the forest department reveals that these encroachments …
NAGPUR: Many politicians and project proponents see buffer zones around tiger reserves as a hurdle in development but clearance to Baglinga minor irrigation project in Melghat by the National Board for Wild Life (NBWL) shows that genuine development is permissible in such zones. The standing Committee of NBWL on March …
Survey Part Of Countrywide Study At Tiger Reserves For Exact Count Of The Cats Pune: The state forest department has captured images of more than 141 fully grown tigers in Maharashtra’s four tiger reserves and their surrounding areas. The ‘camera-trapping survey’ that is going on across protected areas in the …
