Counter affidavit on behalf of Chief Municipal Engineer, Patna Nagar Nigam in the matter of Saurav Narayan Vs Bihar Pollution Control Board & Others dated May 20, 2025. The report said that the corporation has been diligently performing its statutory duties within the limitations of the available resources and infrastructure. …
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 …
The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its judgment on the Goa mining dispute after five weeks of the final hearing on the writ petition of the Goa Foundation. It also fixed November 11 for passing two interim orders, further to its stay on all the mining activities in the state …
The state government has set up a four-member committee to get views and comments of stakeholders on declaring the Sawantwadi-Dodamarg wildlife corridor as an ecologically sensitive zone. The committee comprises the chief conservator of forests (Kolhapur), collector (Sindhudurg), chief agricultural officer (Sindhudurg) and deputy forest officer (Sawantwadi). The committee must …
Farmers organisations led by Indian Farmers Movement (Infam) have decided to stage dharnas and take out protest marches on November 1 in Kozhikode and Malappuram districts to protest against recommendations of the Kasturirangan and Madhav Gadgil panel reports which they believe are a threat to their livelihood and were aimed …
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 …
V. S. Vijayan, member, Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP), has said that it was evident that vested interests were behind those opposing the Madhav Gadgil report. Lobbies connected to pesticide, sand and granite-mining were opposed to the report, he said. In a seminar organised at the Idukki Press Club …
The extremely fragile Western Ghats region is highly prone to natural calamities and chances of an Uttarakhand-like tragedy in the region cannot be ruled out if scientific conservation initiatives are not being implemented at the earliest, says a leading environmentalist. Significantly, the foreboding has come at a time when the …
KPCL uncertain about eco-clearance from Centre The Gundia project was proposed with an ultimate installed capacity of generating no less than 1,002 Million Units of energy every year. After much debate, protests and appeals, the fate of Gundia hydroelectric project, proposed in Hassan/Dakshina Kannada districts and expected to generate 400 …
Report seeks protection of biodiversity of Western Ghats The Gadgil committee report is a development plan than a mere report on the conservation of nature, V.S. Vijayan, ecologist and Gadgil committee member, has said. Delivering a lecture on “Gadgil- Kasturirangan reports and Kerala’s development’ in a seminar organised by the …
A three-member expert committee will study the Kasturirangan Committee report on Western Ghats to help the state form an official view on the matter. The committee comprising Oommen V Oommen, chairman of state biodiversity board, V N Rajashekaran Pillai, executive vice-president, Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment, and …
The Western Ghats People’s Forum has demanded that grama sabhas be convened in all 123 villages in the State that have been included in the list of ecologically sensitive areas by the Kasturirangan committee report on Western Ghats. Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, forum general convener V.V. Augustine …
Environmental organisations and former senior bureaucrats have written to Union minister of environment Jayanthi Natarajan to reconsider the decision to approve the controversial K Kasturirangan-led high level working group (HLWG) report on Western Ghats as it would destroy the rich biodiversity of the region and adversely impact the livelihood of …
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 Union ministry of environment and forests' (MoEF) decision in accepting 'in principle' the Kasturirangan report with a new definition of Western Ghats and delineation of its ecologically sensitive area (ESA) has irked environmentalists, as they fear it will open up fragile areas for development and destruction. Environmentalists noted that …
The Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) in principle acceptance of the Kasturirangan report on Western Ghats, defining the extent of the ghats and the ecologically sensitive area (ESA) subject to certain conditions, has drawn flak from reputed ecologist Madhav Gadgil. "Kasturirangan has ended up essentially protecting reserve forests, …
Western ghats ecology experts panel (WGEEP) had adopted a broader basis to determine ecologically-sensitive areas, as recommended by the Sen Committee in 2000, but the narrow focus of the high-level working group (HLWG) headed by Kasturirangan on forested areas under government control is totally inadequate and inappropriate, Madhav Gadgil said. …
The report of the Species Survival Commission's Biodiversity Unit (SSC) on 'The status and distribution of freshwater biodiversity in the Western Ghats, India' has revealed that close to 16% of the 1,146 freshwater taxa-aquatic plants and fish native to the western ghat states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala and …
Kolhapur: Environmental activists and eco-experts in south Maharashtra have cried foul over the ministry of environment and forest’s (MoEF) decision to accept the high-level working group’s report on the Western Ghats prepared by scientist K Kasturirangan. The MoEF on Saturday issued a notification of ‘in-principal’ acceptance of the Kasturirangan report …
On Monday evening, Eliamma George, president of Thiruvambady gramapanchayat, declared the 12-hour hartal in the district against K. Kasturirangan Committee report on Western Ghats a “success”. But closer, in the city, A. Achyuthan, noted environmentalist, alleged the hartal was motivated by the “quarry and resorts lobbies”. Monday’s hartal witnessed such …
Thiruvananthapuram: A high-level expert committee will be formed to study the K Kasturirangan-led high-level working group (HLWG) report on the Western Ghats, chief minister Oommen Chandy said here on Monday. The state would object to those recommendations detrimental to the state’s interests, Chandy said, adding that the government had not …
