In 2019, the illegal wildlife trade reached staggering levels. Pangolin scales and ivory were being trafficked in massive quantities from Africa to Asia, exposing a network of crime syndicates operating at an industrial scale. The sheer volume of these shipments marked a disturbing milestone, one that revealed the global reach …
Soft shell turtles are among the most threatened groups of freshwater animals that are in need of urgent conservation attention. In Kerala (South India), two species of freshwater turtles, the Indian black turtle or Indian pond terrapin, Melanochelys trijuga coronata (Schweigger, 1812) and the Indian Flap-shelled turtle Lissemys punctata punctata …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Just about twenty days after the city zoo lost its huge sand boa, the Government Ayurveda College Research Centre at Poojappura too has lost its red sand boa. The boa was smuggled out of its cage - under lock and key - from a room, which was also locked, …
Residents of Maussakele area are perturbed about illegal gem mining taking place in Maskelioya, which is the main river that feeds the Maussakele reservoir. They warned that the Maussakele reservoir is being endangered with silting due to the illegal gem mining that has been going on for some time with …
Three sandalwood smugglers have been arrested and 343 kg of sandalwood billets valued at Rs 7.50 lakh,seized from them near here, police said today. Hamid Khan, his wife Yasmeen Khanum and Syed Amjad Khan,who were arrested yesterday, are natives of Bangalore, Superintendent of Police Dr P S Harsha told reporters …
SHILLONG: The Congress-led KHADC Executive Committee (EC) has set up an independent inquiry committee (IAC), headed by the Council Court Additional Judge S Kharsyiemlieh, to investigate the reported involvement of its senior employees in smuggling of timber from the forest areas under the jurisdiction of the Council. Sources on Thursday …
The Wildlife Conservation Department says that the elephant which received gunshot injuries when illicit timber fellers shot at the animal which was trying to obstruct the miscreants in a very strange manner had died. The carcass of the elephant has been found in the waters of the Katukeliyawa Wewa. The …
Main pipeline getting damaged due to widening of roads ARIYALUR: The Ariyalur municipality has warned that stern action would be taken against persons tapping drinking water illegally by using motors and by creating huge pits along the 28-km main water pipeline from the water pumping station at Tirumanur to Ariyalur. …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Lok Ayukta has directed the Director General of Police (DGP) to deploy sufficient police personnel to keep a constant vigil in the rural areas of the district from where illegal sand mining has been reported. Delivering a verdict on a private complaint, Justice M.M. Pareed Pillay said that …
AFTER an intensive campaign by the media and environmentalists, followed by an attack on the Revenue Divisional Officer (RDO) by the illicit magnesite miners, the authorities have finally decided to crack down on illicit mining. The IG-cum-Commissioner of Police Sunil Kumar Singh said on Monday that an inter-departmental coordination committee …
BANGALORE: Expressing dissatisfaction with the Action Taken Report (ATR) submitted by the State Government on the findings of the Lokayukta concerning irregularities and illegalities in the mining sector, Lokayukta N. Santosh Hegde said:
July 13: The Centre will take up a survey to demarcate the boundaries of five iron ore mines in Anantapur forests to resolve the dispute on alleged illegal mining by Obulapuram Mining Company, owned by the Karnataka tourism minister, Mr Gali Janardhan Reddy. A 10-hectare non-mining zone around a temple, …
The Centre on Monday informed Parliament that a survey will be conducted by the Survey of India by the end of July to demarcate the mining lease areas of five mines in Andhra Pradesh. To a question raised by TDP member Mysura Reddy in Rajya Sabha regarding
Former governor Rameshwar Thakur has rejected all charges made against former chief minister and senior Congress leader N Dharam Singh by the Karnataka Lokayukta in its report on the illegal mining. Thakur in a letter dated June 23 which reached Lokayukta Santosh Hegde on July 6, has said he will …
AHMEDABAD: Not just poaching of winged visitors, illegal fishing is also a menace at Nal Sarovar. Rampant fishing has worried nature lovers and forest department officials alike because decrease in the fish population will directly affect the number of birds from abroad coming to the lake. Officials said in the …
ILLICIT miners launched a daring counter offensive against revenue officials who seized their vehicles during a raid on Tuesday They freed the vehicles with the drivers and the load. One person was later arrested According to Salem RDO M G Kulandiavel, the raid was conducted on orders from the Collector …
The federal government has blacklisted a suspected wildlife trafficker, while a case has also been registered against the firm for illegally bringing four rare white tigers into the country, it has been learnt here reliably. According to highly placed sources, the federal environment ministry has blacklisted the firm, Marine World, …
The Red Sand Boa, an endangered snake, is in danger, due to rampant trafficking in recent times. A few farmers in Kanakapura, Hiriyur, Chitradugra and Doddaballapur have started rearing snakes, especially Red Sand Boa also known as
From 2001 April to March 2009 different Field Directors have given priority to different things forgetting the basics of management of tiger reserve that security was the most important item as Panna Tiger Reserve is surrounded by large number of villages indulging in poaching. Monitoring of movement of Pardhis and …
