Livestock Census is a regular quinquennial exercise of Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying (DAHD). The first Livestock Census was conducted in the year 1919 and last census i.e. 20th Livestock Census was conducted in 2019. The 21st Livestock Census exercise has been launched across the country on 25th October, …
CLEAR ROAD MAP Govt will use socio-economic census data to identify the causes in one lakh villages at household levels. The government is preparing a blueprint for attacking the root causes of poverty in over 1 lakh villages instead of running piecemeal schemes that do not address the specific challenge …
Focus on number of predators and prey base, besides health of forest vegetation. The biannual monitoring exercise to ascertain the headcount of predators, the prey base and the quality of the habitat began on Wednesday at Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, one of four reserves in Tamil Nadu. The last census pegged …
Debates on emissions and climate change are dominated by inter-country inequalities, usually ignoring within-country inequalities. In this paper, we address the question of carbon space sharing in India across different classes after economic reforms were introduced in 1991. We establish using household consumption surveys that the elites in India are …
A census of Asiatic lions will be carried out in May to find out the exact number of the big cats in Gujarat, where their population stood just over 400 five years ago, the Assembly was informed today. As per the last census, carried out in 2010, there were 411 …
There has been a 30 per cent rise in the population of tigers in the country and their current count stands at 2,226, the Lok Sabha was informed. Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar informed the House that 22 poachers were also killed last year in encounters with enforcement agencies. “There are …
KOZHIKODE: Amid raging debate among conservation scientists over the methodology adopted for the country's latest tiger count which some say could have resulted in 'inflated' numbers, the camera traps laid by the state forest department at a man-animal conflict site last month have captured five tigers and five leopards in …
Fear is a five-letter word deep inside Bijnor forests. You can sense the presence of the tiger. It's there in the terrifying sound of silence: not a chirp, no whoop, just the high-pitched eerie whistle of wind through shoulder-high grass. It's there in the pug marks, where trees close in …
Karanth says tiger numbers can be doubled. Recent cases of conflict between humans and tigers was the “price of success” of tiger conservation in the country, said wildlife scientist, Ullas Karanth, here on Monday. Speaking at the 15th Conservation Speak on ‘Tiger ecology and tiger-human conflict’, held at Sri Chamarajendra …
ATR to take up fodder plantation on 250 acres this year. Even as there is considerable joy at the increase in tiger population at the Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR), a trend reflected at the national level as well, wildlife activists are sounding a word of caution. While the last census …
The second phase of the tiger census project using camera trapping method is going to begin in November, forest officials informed yesterday. According to the Divisional Forest Officer, Zahidul Kabir, 89 infrared cameras will be used and 30 field workers will participate in the second phase of the census in …
The Sunderbans tiger population may have reached its carrying capacity . The scientists of the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), who are compiling data as part of the all-India tiger census, have revealed this. The carrying capacity of a population is the maximum number of individuals that can live in …
BHOPAL: MANIT is learned to have requested National Green Tribunal (NGT) to give another month's time to complete tree census. The green panel had asked MANIT to carry out a tree census after a petition filed on deforestation and burning of solid waste on campus. NGT has asked MANIT authorities …
The Animal Husbandry and livestock sectors are critical for the rural economy, especially the small and marginal farmers. They not only contribute to their income but also their best insurance against any natural calamity. For planning purposes, the need for upto date and reliable data cannot be over emphasized. Livestock …
