Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Giri Gobardhan Forest Committee Vs State of Odisha & Others dated 15/05/2025. The Applicant Giri Gobardhan Forest Committee has filed the application alleging illegal felling of trees over an area of around 5 acres within the …
Petitioners also challenged the constitutional validity of section 62 of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 The Supreme Court will hear PILs challenging three government notifications declaring nilgais, wild boars and Rhesus monkeys as vermin, thereby paving the way for their hunting and killing in Bihar, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh …
AHMEDABAD: Three Asiatic lions, from near Gir National Sanctuary, found to have turned man-eaters, have been sentenced to life within a cage. A fully grown male lion would be kept in a zoo while the other sub-adult females would be sent to a forest rescue centre permanently, an official said …
Wildlife Act’s Section 62 illegal: PIL In her PIL, animal rights activist Gauri Maulekhi has challenged the validity of Section 62 of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 that empowered the Centre to let culling of animals to curtail their population Pleading to declare Section 62 as unconstitutional and illegal, the …
Pune: NGOs and activists in the city protested against the environment ministry's decision to allow mass killing of Nilgai in Bihar. A few days back, women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi had sparred with environment minister Prakash Javadekar over the killing. Gandhi is also a well known animal rights …
Haven't Resolved Conflict Between Humans, Animals Five states have responded so far to the environment ministry's advisory of 2014 which had sought proposals from all state governments regarding wild animals that could be declared “vermin“ under the Wildlife Protection Act. This would mean their killing will not be regulated anymore. …
With Union Ministers Maneka Gandhi and Prakash Javadekar locking horns over culling of animals including nilgai, animal rights bodies today expressed "shock" over the Environment Ministry's stand saying such killings will not help mitigate human-animal conflict. Noting that more than 500 people lost their lives in human-wildlife conflicts last year, …
Union minister for women and child development Maneka Gandhi’s comments on Thursday, accusing the environment ministry of showing “lust to kill animals”, snowballed into a major stand-off between the National Democratic Alliance’s two Cabinet colleagues to the delight of Opposition parties. Ms Gandhi’s outburst came after the Rhesus Macaque (monkey) …
Environment Ministry has declared Rhesus Macaque monkeys in Himachal Pradesh to be "vermin" for a period of one year, allowing their culling to control their population during this time. The notification issued last month said that the state has reported damage to life and property including large scale destruction of …
Defending the Centre, Javadekar stated that taking such a decision was not the Centre’s prerogative, adding the Environment Ministry acted as per the law. Minister of State for Environment and Forests Prakash Javadekar on Thursday countered his Cabinet colleague Maneka Gandhi’s charges that the Environment Ministry thrived in the killing …
Illegal wildlife trade and habitat fragmentation that has increased human-wildlife conflict are threatening the wildlife across the Hindu Kush Himalayan region, an international expert has said. He said there is need for trans-boundary interventions to combat the challenges in wildlife conservation. There is a vast array of wildlife products like …
First Lady Margaret Kenyatta on Wednesday officially opened the Global Wildlife Program that will look into ways of engaging local communities in wildlife conservation. In addressing the importance of engaging the local communities, the First Lady said that the loss of wildlife and natural habitat has been tampered by the …
Kolhapur: As many as eight goats were killed in leopard attacks in Bhudargad tehsil on Saturday. The incidents took place in Aralgundi village and Mahagond hamlet in the tehsil. Two farmers lost four goats each in the attacks. Forest guard Amol Chavan has completed the post-mortem as well as status …
Katima Mulilo — Victims of human-wildlife conflict in the Zambezi region are pushing for higher monetary compensation for their suffering. Currently, conservancies pay out about N$1 500 per head of cattle killed or attacked inside a kraal; about N$200 per hectare of crops eaten, trampled or damaged by wild animals; …
Katima Mulilo — Victims of human-wildlife conflict in the Zambezi region are pushing for higher monetary compensation for their suffering. Currently, conservancies pay out about N$1 500 per head of cattle killed or attacked inside a kraal; about N$200 per hectare of crops eaten, trampled or damaged by wild animals; …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Rise in Man-animal conflict, 25/04/2016. Incidences of negative human-wildlife interactions including the loss of human lives and damage to crops by wild animals are reported in various parts of the country from time to time. Management of forest and wildlife is the responsibility of …
The Sundarban of India and Bangladesh (about 6000 km²) are the only mangrove forests inhabited by a sizeable population of tigers. The adjoining area also supports one of the highest human densities and experiences severe human-tiger conflicts. We used GPS-Satellite and VHF radio-collars on 6 (3 males and 3 female) …
SHIMLA: No monkey business any more — at least in tourist hotspot Shimla. Declared vermin, the marauding monkeys will be shot down in areas outside forests to check their menace. The ministry of environment, forests and climate change, in a communication to the Himachal Pradesh government on March 14, declared …
The world-famous Rajaji National Park, Uttarakhand, India has recently been notified as Rajaji Tiger Reserve (RTR). This Protected Area is now the 48th Tiger Reserve in the country and the second in Uttarakhand. Though RNP was established in 1983, final notification for the Park was issued in 2013 because of …
Wildlife conservation in human-dominated landscapes requires that we understand how animals, when making habitat-use decisions, obtain diverse and dynamically occurring resources while avoiding risks, induced by both natural predators and anthropogenic threats. Little is known about the underlying processes that enable wild animals to persist in densely populated human-dominated landscapes, …
Mumbai: To carry out a headcount of leopards inhabiting Tungareshwar Wildlife Sanctuary, camera traps will be placed across the forested part. This sanctuary stretches from the fringes of Sanjay Gandhi National Park and extends beyond Virar. The camera traps will be positioned at least at 30 locations across the stretch …
