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. …
For millions of tourists, Ramnagar is the gateway to Corbett tiger reserve. Most hotels and resorts are clustered around this town. It is the national park headquarters that issues permits. All major entries to Corbett — from Amdanda to Durgadevi — are on the Ranikhet road off Ramnagar. Not much …
A recent incident of alleged poaching of a Great Indian Bustard -- the State bird of Rajasthan listed in the “critically endangered” category -- near the famous Sam sand dunes in Jaisalmer district has shocked environmentalists who have blamed poor wildlife management and lack of protective measures for the crime. …
It stoutly opposes Gujarat Forest Department proposal to divert land The Standing Committee of the National Board for Wildlife (NBW) has put its foot down against the laying of a road across the Kutch desert sanctuary — the largest breeding ground of flamingos in the entire Indian subcontinent — following …
GUWAHATI/DIMAPUR: With early winter coming in, means a time to seek fortune for many villagers. As Amur falcons migrate from Siberia, the villagers hunt them in large number and earn a lot in Nagaland and parts of Manipur. However, if environmentalists have their way this year, those villagers in Nagaland …
MUMBAI: Imagine loads of useful information on birds and avian ecology readily available for free at the click of the mouse, plus myriad databases for the layman as well as the scientist. All this and more is available on the Environmental Information System (ENVIS) Centre website of Bombay Natural History …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday pledged $50 million to strengthen institutional mechanism for biodiversity conservation in the country. He made the announcement while launching the high-level segment of the 11th Conference of Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Hyderabad. Stressing on the role played by …
The Union Environment Ministry has taken the side of conservationists fighting for survival of 300-odd Narcondam hornbills, threatened by a Coast Guard plan to set up a radar surveillance system on the tiny island in the Andamans where the birds make their home. On August 31, the Ministry of Environment …
Two endangered species of vulture have been bred successfully in captivity at a conservation centre in Assam, officials said on Sunday. A nestling each of the white-backed and the slender-billed species have hatched at the centre, located 40 km from here at Rani, State Principal Conservator of Forests (Wildlife) Suresh …
New Delhi: The house sparrow is still very much a part of Delhi’slandscape.Its numbers might seem on the decline, but findings of ‘Citizen Sparrow’ — a national survey to understand the population dynamics of house sparrows — paint a brighter picture. In Delhi, there were 627 records from people on …
The two separate cases of killing and torture of birds in Uttarakhand and Tamil Nadu respectively have shocked both wildlife experts and animal welfare activists. In Uttarakhand, 250 egret chicks were killed when school authorities brought down an old tree with their nests. And in Tamil Nadu, more than 7,000 …
The Cauvery eco-system is in deep trouble with the current year being one of the worst drought years that the river has witnessed. The delta region, known as ‘Marudha Nilam’, can no longer have that nomenclature as it is now shorn of Marudu trees, a native plant. The ‘minimum viable …
PANJIM: The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has taken up a program to save vultures from getting extinct. Under this program, 30 young vultures will be ready to fly by year 2014. Dr Asad Rehmani, a senior member of National Board for Willdlife and Director of Bombay Natural History …
MUMBAI: The much-delayed Rs-8,800 crore Mumbai Transharbour Sea Link (MTHL) is once again under a cloud with the National Green Tribunal recently restraining the MMRDA from taking any final decision on the tenders or issuing a final work order to start construction without its permission. "We feel that substantial questions …
City, Mahuva Identified Among 6 Vulture Safe Zones In The Country Ahmedabad/Mahuva: Vulture conservation in Gujarat has got a major boost with the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) selecting Mahuva and Ahmedabad among the six provisional vultures’ safe zones (VSZ) in India. Within three years, vultures successfully bred in captivity …
The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) is yet to catch up with the ground reality of the number of species of critically endangered birds in the country. When environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan released a book on Tuesday, which updates the list of birds facing a threat of extinction in …
Rajkot: A nationwide netbased survey on house sparrow has been launched by Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), Mumbai, from April 1. Bird Conservation Society, Gujarat (BCSG), which is one of the 10 partnering institutions in this two-month long survey, has appealed to the people to contribute their data to this …
Bombay Natural History Society ropes in citizens for online survey In an effort to document the population and distribution of sparrows and compare it with the situation in the past, nature and conservation organisations across the country have joined efforts with the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) to launch an …
Finance Minister K.M. Mani’s announcement during his Budget speech in the Assembly that the biodiversity-rich wetland area of Munderikadavu here will be developed into a bird sanctuary has been greeted by bird lovers in the region with a note of caution that the proposal should envisage the protection of the …
The Sewri mudflats in Mumbai, home to a rich biodiversity, including flamingoes, is under threat from a development project. IT is low tide and the mess of humanity is on full display on the mudflats at Sewri in Mumbai. Tin cans, bottles, torn fishing nets, waste oil and, of course, …
Act now or it will be never! Three species of south Asia’s vultures are critically threatened with extinction in the near future. Saving Asia’s Vultures from Extinction (SAVE), a group of international experts — in its first meeting on saving the endangered raptors has strongly recommended legislations to stop the …
