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 …
Nearly 100 cameras will soon track the movement of tigers in the forest range adjoining the UP-Uttarakhand border. The state government has recently initiated the project near the Corbett Tiger Reserve to bring down human-animal conflict as well as make an attempt to trace the elusive man-eating tigress of Bijnor. …
In a move that would bolster tiger conservation in the country, the UP government has approved plans of a tiger reserve in Pilibhit, the third in the state after Dudhwa and Amangarh. Under the planned Pilibhit reserve, the Mala, Mahof, Barahi, Deoria and Haripur forest ranges will be developed as …
They Fear Such A Deal Could Help The Centre For Wildlife Studies Take Over Karnataka Forests Bangalore: A draft memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the Karnataka forest department and the Centre for Wildlife Studies (CWS) has not gone down well with environmentalists. They say the move will result in CWS …
The state government on Saturday roped in a private agency to conduct a "carrying capacity" study of elephants to ensure a sustainable habitat for the jumbos, sources said. The government signed an MoU with Bangalore-based Asian Nature Conservation Foundation (ANCF), a private agency, for conducting the study of the habitat …
Farmers from districts along the Cauvery basin on Saturday launched an agitation, urging the Centre to shift the proposed high-tension electric wire passing through pristine forests in Kodagu, pointing out that it poses a threat to the sensitive ecology of Kodagu district, from where the river originates. Staging a sit-in …
The village eco-development committees (EDCs) set up in Maharashtra side of Pench Tiger Reserve have geared up for involving community participation in conservation of forest and tigers. Satpuda Foundation, a leading NGO in Central India, said these committees in Pench buffer villages are now generating community actions for tiger conservation. …
The straying of Royal Bengal Tigers into villages around the Sunderbans forest has seen a dramatic decline after erection of nylon net-fencing on the forest-village interface. Not a single case of tiger straying into villages surrounding the forest had been reported this year, field director of the Sunderban tiger reserve …
The National Trust for Nature Conservation and the Department of Forests have signed an agreement to launch a special two-year project to prevent human-wildlife conflict in and around the Kathmandu Valley. The agreement comes in the wake of retaliatory killings of five leopards in two years in the valley. The …
The increasing number of panthers in the forest areas of Udaipur has resulted in a struggle for existence and supremacy ending in the death of four panthers in a short span of 10 days. This is apart from the death of 15 panthers run over by vehicles within a year. …
Bangladesh ranked 169th among 178 countries in the Global Environmental Performance Index 2014. Bangladesh scored 25.61 out of 100 taking into consideration indicators like health impacts, air quality, water and sanitation, water resources, agriculture, forests, fisheries, biodiversity and habitat. Read more in this January 2014 edition of the Monthly Overview …
Nepal has been ranked 139th in the Environmental Performance Index 2014, which assessed 178 countries across the world. Read more in this January 2014 edition of the Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Nepal. ENVIRONMENT Nepal has been ranked 139th in the Environmental Performance Index 2014, which assessed 178 countries …
Alwar: Territorial equations in the Sariska tiger reserve are in a jeopardy! Three tigers shifted from Ranthambore are upsetting equations here. One has grabbed a major portion of the core area in the reserve forcing other big cats to the periphery near over two dozen villages with a sizable human …
The Chandrapur Super Thermal Power Station (CSTPS) and Chandrapur Ferro-alloy Plant (CFP), the erstwhile Maharashtra Elektrosmelt Ltd, here are under the scanner of forest department for failing to implement measures for mitigating man-animal conflict in their premises. Chandrapur forest division has given 15-day ultimatum to undertake the mitigation measures. It …
Action will be taken to address the human-elephant conflict on a firm footing with an allocation of Rs. 1,070 million to be made to 107 Divisional Secretariats on the instructions of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Funds will be utilised to erect electric fences and other barriers to prevent invasion of elephants …
The government has allocated Rs 1 million for each Divisional Secretariat Division affected by the human-elephant conflict from the Budget for next year to take rigorous measures to control the problem, a spokesperson from the Wildlife Conservation Department said. She said the government has paid attention to mitigate the human-elephant …
The king of the jungle has conquered new territories. About one-third of the Saurashtra region has been marked as Asiatic lioninhabited areas by the state forest department. A recent study based on frequent lion kills and compensation given to farmers says the big cats rule over a huge 20,000 sq …
UJUNG KULON: On a leaf-covered dirt path overlooking lush paddy fields in western Indonesia, the world's rarest rhino had left a trail of hoofprints in the soft mud and bite marks on foliage. For people seeking a glimpse of the Javan rhino — revered in local folklore as Abah Gede, …
Yavatmal, Aurangabad and Kolhapur territorial circles have reported huge economic losses due to man-wildlife conflict. Now, Yavatmal circle has taken lead to formulate a strategy to minimize these losses by adopting preventive measures. Yavatmal circle had organised first such workshop for its officers and staff on December 14 and 15. …
The scale of the elephant poaching epidemic could lead to local populations becoming extinct, an IUCN report says Africa will lose one-fifth of its elephants in the next decade if the continent's poaching crisis is not stopped, data published on Monday shows. There were about 10 million African elephants (Loxodonta …
Tigers are getting too close for comfort: three human deaths in five days have once more brought the man-animal conflict into focus. Statistics with TOI show the state has seen 30 human deaths since April this year. While 23 were killed in elephant attacks, the rest succumbed to attacks by …
