Affidavit filed by the Chief Wildlife Warden, Assam in the matter of news item titled "the last feral horses in India" appearing in Mongabay, November 5, 2024. The matter relates to the critically endangered status of feral horses in the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park as well as of smuggling of these …
Harvest of terror Come harvest time and tense villagers begin preparing for the next elephant raid Like the other farmers, Durlabh Rajbhansu is afraid. As harvesting season approaches, the people of Nopam, a tiny village near Tezpur in northern Assam, steel themselves for the worst. For the last 10 years, …
social activist Sanjoy Ghose's abduction and subsequent disappearance from Majuli, a riverine island in Assam, on July 4, 1997, raises questions about the interface between ngo s and militants. Many believe Ghose was murdered. To mark the first anniversary of his abduction, Ghose's friends are scheduled to hold protest demonstrations …
The Karnataka government would come out with a comprehensive Karnataka Forest (Amendment) Bill based on the National Forest Policy evolved by the Centre after incorporating suggestions made by various members of the legislature. Scientists predict an earthquake in Assam of a magnitude greater than eight on the Richter Scale any …
Despite warnings from conservationists, Kaziranga became the unfortunate scene for the worst human-animal conflict over habitat in recent years. The angry people of Kaliabor, a small village some 200 km east of the state capital Guahati along the fringes of the Kaziranga national park, went on an indefinite hunger strike …
wildlife experts in Assam say that construction of roads and heavy traffic movement through the jungles of Assam is affecting the flora and fauna of the region. They have urged the government to preserve the eco-system. H K Choudhury of the Wildlife Areas Development and Welfare Trust says that the …
the indefinite hunger strike of villagers around Kaziranga, Assam, against the growing number of attacks on their fields and dwellings by elephants is another example of the people's wrath at being made scapegoats in the name of conservation. An apathetic government and blinker-wearing wildlife managers are letting things run out …
sanjoy Ghosh's abductors belonging to the United Liberation Front of Asom ( ulfa ), issued a statement on July 23 refuting the claims of an earlier statement (dated July 22) which said that he was dead. ulfa's central publicity secretary Mithinga Daimory stated that Ghosh was alive and in the …
after the recent two waves of floods, the overall situation in Assam continues to be grim. There has been reports of 29 major breaches in the Brahmaputra valley. The Kaziranga National Park, which is submerged under water, has caused concern as loss to wildlife is feared. Addressing a press conference …
The population of the lesser fish-eagle (Ichthyophaga humilis) in the Corbett National Park is depleting due to DDT contamination. There have been reports of breaking of eggs due to eggshell thinning and those hatched died within a week, according to a recent study by the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS). …
THE government of India has awarded the first ever industrial growth centr& in Assam to the district of Sonitpur. An amount of Rs 50 lakh has recently been sanctioned by the Union ministry of industry, out of which there will be a total capital outlay of Rs 30 crore for …
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ABANI KUMAR BHAGABATI, GUWAHATIthe Karbi Anglong district in Assam, the homeland of the Karbi tribe, is on the brink of an economic and ecological crisis. A high rate of population growth and overuse of land for shifting cultivation known as jhumming have led to alternative means of increasing productivity. While …
•The West Bengal government has introduced a water pricing policy for affluent users and industries. Accordingly, they will not only have to pay the operation and maintenance costs of running a water supply system, but also help the municipalities generate a surplus.• Urban Environmental Maps of Shimla, a report prepared …
the government of Assam, in an attempt to gain further control over the natural resources of the state, has proposed the introduction of a bill that aims to bring natural gas and gas plants under its purview. While disclosing this in the assembly on March 17, industries minister Gunin Hazarika …
february 1, 1997, was celebrated world-wide as the World Wetlands Day. The World Wide Fund for Nature even issued a statement asking governments to reaffirm their commitment to conservation and restoration of wetlands throughtout the world. However, for the numerous waterbodies, fringed frequently by marshy wetlands, and scattered amidst the …
Beels are shallow waterbodies with rich macrophytic vegetation. The recent satellite survey undertaken by the Assam Remote Sensing Application Centre, shows that there are as many as 3,536 wetlands in the state, occupying an area of 1,030,76 ha constituting 1.31 per cent of the total geographical area of the state. …
manas Tiger Reserve in western Assam will soon receive an emergency aid of us $225,000 from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (unesco). In a meeting held in Mexico in December 1996, unesco had decided to grant the emergency aid after concluding that the Manas national park, a …
recently in Sonapur, Assam, heart surgeon Dhaniram Baruah and his team, including Jonathan Ho of Hong Kong, transplanted a pig's heart into Purno Saikia, a 32-year-old heart patient. Saikia survived for less than a week and fell to the grotesque experiment of an overambitious doctor. Saikia, a terminally-ill patient, would …
the one-horned rhinos of Kaziranga National Park in Assam, may yet be saved from extinction. Alarmed by the recent escalation in poaching incidents, the state government has imposed Section 144 of Indian Penal Code in the park. The penal provision prohibits the congregation of four or more people at a …
• As per the directive of the Supreme Court, the first green bench in the judicial history of the country sat at the Calcutta High Court n June 3. The bench will deal exclusively with environmental and pollution control matters and was set up following a judgement on a writ …
