Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Gorillas, the largest of the great apes, are under renewed threat across the Congo Basin from Nigeria to the Albertine Rift: poaching for bushmeat, loss of habitat due to agricultural expansion, degradation of habitat from logging, mining and charcoal production are amongst these threats, in addition to natural epidemics such …
Jagdish Bhatt | TNN Shimla: A Himachal Pradesh government notification, which now allows culling of nilgai (blue bull), has outraged wildlife enthusiasts and devout Hindus alike. Nature lovers say that the reason given by the government
To a distance 1,400 km along borders of reserve forests JUMBO PROBLEM: Forest officers explaining elephant movement to Forest Minister N. Selvaraj at Sattaparai near Palani on Friday. Revenue Minister I Periasamy and Collector M. Vallalar look on. PALANI: Solar electric fence would be installed to a distance 1,400 km …
Feb 05 : It was a coup with a difference. No life was lost. No blood was shed. No one lost power. There was, to use a common phrase of this century, no regime change. But a king lost a crown. A new claimant became an icon. It was a …
An Associate Laureate of the 2004 Rolex Awards, Jo Thompson was selected for her pioneering efforts to save the bonobo, an endangered ape that dwells only in the Congo Basin region of Africa. During the Congo's war years (1998-2002), Thompson's wildlife project maintainted an active presence within the country. In …
Guwahati: The unfortunate incident of Saturday failed to dampen the spirit of zoo goers in Assam as thousands of visitors still swarmed the Assam State Zoo on Sunday. On Saturday a full grown Royal Bengal tigress and her daughter sneaked out of an enclosure only to be tranquilized by the …
ANGUL: The elephants of Mahanadi elephant reserve have been wreaking havoc in some pockets of Angul district after their corridors have been restricted by the Rengali canal, Samal barrage and Rengali dam. Corridor restrictions, banana cultivation and rampant solar fencing are said to be the reasons behind elephant concentration in …
Vinay Kumar NEW DELHI: Unhindered commercial activity around the Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand is posing a serious threat to the eco-fragile zone and obstructing movement of animals. Flashy discos, motorbike racing, loud music, bright lights and lavish weddings in resorts on the periphery of the Park, in gross violation …
Manoj Anand The procession of adult elephants and their calves trudging with men and women was enough to indicate that growing manelephant conflict of the state could be resolved through peaceful co-existence. In the company of hundreds of their human admirers, even elephant calves were responsive to the love and …
Throughout the Pacific regions of Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia, sea turtles are recognised as culturally significant species. The specifics of human-sea turtle interactions in these regions, however, are not well known, in part because ethnographic and historic reports documenting these interactions are scattered, requiring extensive archival research. Ethnographic and environmental …
D. Radhakrishnan Udhagamandalam: Even as the Mudumalai-Bandipur road across the Nilgiris-Karnataka border continues to be in the news on account of the ban imposed recently on vehicular movement during night to protect wild animals, an incident on Monday has brought into sharp focus the threat posed by speeding vehicles to …
Neha Sinha Sridutt Sharma, a resident of Germany, spent years looking for a tiger or a leopard in sanctuaries and tiger reserves across India, but in vain. On Monday, his wish was finally granted, but in the most unlikely of all places
Ahmedabad: Travellers flying from Ahmedabad airport can now leave behind the fear of their plane encountering a winged obstacle. Airport authorities will now be armed with laser guns to scare away the birds at city airport. The decision was taken in a meeting of state environment department and director general …
Oct. 6: In the most inaccessible area, at the foothills of the Nallamala in Kottapalle mandal of Kurnool district, hundreds were marooned for nearly past five days as the Srisailam backwater had flooded their villages. Villagers had to spend four horrifying nights in the Ankalamma Gattu forest area. This is …
Assam's Kaziranga National Park (KNP) - the abode of the Great one-horned rhinoceros lies in the flood plains of the Brahmaputra River. Significantly, Kaziranga also has a high density tiger population and is one of the national tiger reserves established in India. The present study attempts to assess the significance, …
