Conducted over the course of a year in 2017-18, the All Kerala Tiger Monitoring Programme identified a total of 176 individuals, 75 of them within the confines of the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary (WWS) alone, based on camera-trap images. Kerala’s forest cover may be extremely fragmented and prone to recurrent human-animal …
The Health Department has cautioned the public against an outbreak of waterborne diseases in the district. District Medical Officer Neeta Vijayan said in a release here on Saturday that people should be alert against waterborne diseases such as jaundice, diarrhoea, and typhoid. According to the data of the Health Department, …
Roof-Top, Pole-Mounted Units Planned In Attapadi Hamlet, Mananthavadi Estate The state electricity board has, in a first-of-its-kind endeavour suitable to Kerala, decided to roll out several pilot projects to track and test the potential of solar energy. The projects, set to begin in the current fiscal, include grid interactive solar …
84 Abattoirs Shut Down Following Crackdown By Department It seems that a major chunk of the meat you buy from the various outlets in the state is not safe to eat. Nearly 84 slaughterhouses across the state were closed down following raids conducted by food safety officials last week. It …
Chandy To Hold Talks With Union Minister Veerappa Moily Today Assuaging the concerns of those staying in the high ranges, the Prime Minister’s Office informed the state government on Thursday that a final decision on Kasturirangan committee report would be taken only after the ministry of environment and forests incorporated …
The country lost 63 tigers in 2013 with Karnataka alone losing 16 big cats. The data released by the National Tiger Conservation Authority states that poachers accounted for the death of 48 tigers in different parts of the country last year. In comparison, 72 tiger deaths were reported in 2012. …
Poaching was the cause of most deaths, says National Tiger Conservation Authority The country lost 63 of its wild tigers in 2013. The first tiger death of the year was reported from the South Brahmapuri forest range of Chandrapur district, Maharashtra, on January 6, 2013 caused by suspected poaching. The …
Kozhikode: The phase-I of the tiger enumeration ended in the state on Monday. As many as 2,088 officials were involved in the eight-day exercise that covered the Periyar Tiger Reserve, Parambikulam-Aliyar and 11 other wildlife sanctuaries and reserve forests. Senior officials of the forest department expressed satisfaction over the census, …
Kozhikode: Forest officials conducting tiger census in the interior forests of Wayanad, amidst reports of frequent Maoist sightings in the region, fled for safety after hearing a gunshot from close quarters on Thursday. The incident took place at Velleripadam under Mundakai section of the Meppadi forest range at 11.40 am. …
2,000 Officials Deployed As Part Of Nation-Wide Exercise A team of 50 forest department officials, scouting for the presence of tigers, entered the dense forests of the Periyar Tiger Reserve on Monday morning and were in the reserve till sun down. They will begin afresh on Tuesday, foraying into the …
Experts Say Kasturirangan Report Does Not Ban Construction, Cultivation, Tourism And Infrastructure Development In Villages In ESA Viju B Chief minister Oommen Chandy may have succumbed to political pressure from UDF allies, quarry owners and church authorities, who want a drastic reduction in the number of villages categorized as Ecological …
The wildlife expert committee constituted by the Kerala government to study animal behaviour and gather scientific data on use of roadside space by animals has not been able to commence its works with the state government failing to sanction even the meager Rs2 lakh needed for the study. This is …
Kochi: The Western Ghats people’s forum will stage an agitation in Thiruvananthapuram in the first week of December to press its demand that residential areas, farm lands and estates should be excluded from the purview of the Madhav Gadgil and Kasturirangan reports. The newly-reconstituted forum, which met in Kochi on …
Under pressure to implement the recommendations of the Madhav Gadgil and Kasturirangan panels on Western Ghats preservation, Kerala Government has decided to form an experts’ committee to prepare the State’s response on the issue sought by the Centre. This was announced by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy after the Opposition LDF …
The decision of the Ministry of Environment and Forest to declare 60,000 sq km of the Western Ghats, which covers 44 districts in six states, as ecologically sensitive area, has evoked protest from political parties and Syrian Catholic Church in Kerala. While the government has convened an all-party meeting next …
At a time when farmers across the state are increasingly abandoning paddy cultivation, a group of traditional paddy farmers and agriculture experts have teamed up to form the state’s first producer company to promote paddy cultivation in Wayanad The company, Wayanad Agriculture & Spices Producer company Private Limited (WASP), has …
Revenue Minister Adoor Prakash has announced an assistance of Rs.13.43 crore for the implementation of various projects for the conservation of rivers in the district. Kollam district has been allocated Rs. 7.11 crore for river conservation, Rs. 3.74 crore to Pathanamthitta, Rs. 5.51 crore to Thrissur, Rs. 7.94 crore to …
As much as 388.3 sq. km of land in Idukki district, comprising 8.9 per cent of the total area, is highly susceptible to landslips while 873.7 sq. km (20 per cent) is susceptible to a lesser degree. Devikulam taluk has the largest area highly prone to landslips (177.8 sq.km), followed …
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) - India, an NGO, has contributed its mite to initiatives aimed at strengthening conservation at the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary (WWS) by providing patrolling and wireless equipment to the frontline staff of the sanctuary. Addressing a meet held in connection with giving away the equipment …
The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has chosen Palakkad as a high priority district,followedby Wayanad and Malappuram in the state, to implement its Call to Action plan to addresschild mortality and maternal issues in the wake of Attapadi malnutrition deaths. The agency plans to take the programme forward after a …
The onset of monsoon has not helped in filling up Krishnaraj Sagar (KRS) reservoir, where the water level has dipped to lowest in the last 10 years. The inflow has not increased due to scanty rainfall in the catchment areas, especially Waynad in Kerala and Kodagu in Karnataka. The water …
