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 …
19.6 million people lack access to toilets in Nepal, with devastating consequences, in particular, for the well-being, health, education and empowerment of women and girls, reveals a report published on the World Toilet Day. Read more in this November 2013 edition of the Monthly Nepal State of the Environment Report …
Man-animal conflicts have declined by nearly 40 cent in Tamil Nadu in recent months following the introduction of protective measures by the State Government, according to Gautam Dey, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests. These include the creation of 40 water troughs in forest areas to prevent wild animals from venturing …
The Forest Department is going to train the Tamil Nadu Home Guards in handling man-animal conflict in the Valparai region, where elephants frequently enter the habitations causing damage to crops and houses. The training programme was inaugurated on Sunday and will cover the safety measures needed to avoid animal attacks. …
Bhopal: The turf war between man and beast has come to the fore in the heat of the Madhya Pradesh elections. With forest employees on election duty and nobody to keep vigil at the Pench Tiger Reserve in Seoni, tribals of the area nearly killed two big cats that strayed …
WildTeam’s efforts in tiger conservation include empowering more than 350 village volunteers around the forest edge to save human, livestock, and tiger lives through the Village Tiger Response Teams Photo- Wikimedia WildTeam, founded in 2003 by a group of Bangladeshi nature lovers, has been chosen as the lead partner for …
For seven days, stakeholders will brainstorm for solutions to this vexed problem Workshop: Even as farmers in some parts of the country reap their harvest spared by wild animals, conservation experts have gathered in the capital to “discuss and find solutions” to conservation challenges. One conservation challenge, at least for …
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 …
Two people injured in latest attack as hungry bears deprived of access to sea ice increasingly look for food on land A polar bear attack in Canada that left two people injured has brought new warnings from scientists of a dangerous rise in human-bear encounters in a warming Arctic. The …
Due to their secretive habits, predicting the pattern of spatial distribution of small carnivores has been typically challenging, yet for conservation management it is essential to understand the association between this group of animals and environmental factors. We applied maximum entropy modeling (MaxEnt) to build distribution models and identify environmental …
Conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and the University of St. Andrews warn that Uganda's African lions—a mainstay of the country's tourism industry and a symbol of Africa—are on the verge of disappearing from the country's national parks. According to the results of a recent survey, African lions in Uganda …
Archana Patnaik, the District Collector, along with District Forest Officer M. Senthil Kumar and District Revenue Officer K. Karpagam and Range Officer C. Dinesh Kumar visited the human-animal conflict pockets along Thondamuthur on Wednesday. In the last 10 to 15 days, a lone elephant and a herd had strayed into …
Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad, assigned to conduct an environment impact study (EIS) on Goa's mining, has found high air pollution in the state's five mining talukas. It also found that the figure of 45 million tonnes of iron ore exports from Goa is too high and has decided …
The Jorhat forest division has submitted a Rs 1-crore plan to the Assam government to provide financial help to people affected by elephant depredation on the fringes of Gibbon wildlife sanctuary at Mariani in Jorhat district. Under the proposal, those affected by elephant depredation will be given assistance in kind …
Naturalists and environmentalists are shocked by the State Forest Department’s decision to increase fodder reserves in the forests. At present the department has created fodder reserves in Coimbatore and The Nilgiris North Forest division totally in about 450ha. The fodder is raised in the forest areas to reduce man-animal conflict, …
Dhanbad tables Rs 9.5-crore proposal before chief wildlife warden for safe habitat in Tundi block Dhanbad, Oct. 22: Faced with rising human-elephant conflicts in Dhanbad, the district forest department has planned a Rs 9.5 crore temporary shelter project for the animals. The department prepared the project proposal on a 30sqkm …
MUMBAI: The frequency of leopard attacks around Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) in the last one year has again raised fears among locals of the bigger human conflict with the wild. In the last 15 years, 128 people have been attacked in or around the national park. As many as …
Perceived As A Threat To Elephant Habitats; Task Force Report Pointed To Fraudulent Clearances Being Granted To These Projects; Green Crusaders Welcome HC Directive The Karnataka High Court’s directive to the government to review clearances to various projects in elephant habitats and corridors has come as a major respite to …
Declare Mysore Elephant Reserve a corridor, says court The High Court has issued a number of directions designed to ensure the safety and protection of elephants. In a significant judgement, which may go a long way in the protection of elephants, both wild and captive, the High Court of Karnataka …
Water is available in the traditional water spouts, wells and ponds in Lalitpur area following extensive implementation of rainwater collection and ground water recharge projects at different places of Lalitpur district in Nepal . Read more in this first Monthly Nepal State of the Environment Report published by the South …
LAND, AGRICULTURE, GRAZING LANDS AND ANIMAL CARE Food Corporation Bhutan officials said they recorded increase in vegetable yield this year. Corporation officials said this was their first such experience so far, where vegetable productions almost doubled. Farmers in the western part of Saptari district in Nepal are concerned after the …
