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. …
Sustained loss of habitat has now placed the world’s longest venomous snake, the king cobra, on the ‘endangered’ list. The snake is found mostly in the Indian rainforests in the Western Ghats. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s latest “Red List of Threatened Species” features king cobra. Besides …
MUMBAI: The Bombay HC directed the Centre to specifically spell out what it plans to do about the state government's suggestions on the Gadgil report on the Western Ghats corridor. Justice D D Sinha and Justice V KTahilramani were hearing a PIL for declaring the 22-km stretch of the Sawantwadi-Dodamarg …
Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh, stating that his personal views on the Athirapally project or the Western Ghats had not changed, said the report submitted by the Madhav Gadgil-led Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel was balanced and detailed as well. Talking to the media here on Monday, Mr. Ramesh …
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy told the Assembly on Tuesday that an expert committee comprising representatives from government departments and institutions would be constituted on Wednesday to study the report of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) headed by Madhav Gadgil and suggest alternatives. Replying to a submission moved by …
Commission a report and when it is ready, place it on a high shelf so that no one can reach it or read it. This seems to be the time-worn norm followed by successive governments in this country. So it comes as no surprise that after having asked the distinguished …
Researchers have discovered a new species of badid fish ‘Dario urops' from the Barapole tributary of the Valapattanam river in the Western Ghats. A research team consisting of Ralf Britz from the Natural History Museum, London; Anvar Ali from the Conservation Research Group at St. Albert's College, Kochi; and Siby …
PANJIM: Environmentalist Madhav Gadgil who heads Western Ghats Ecological Expert Panel (WGEEP) refused to specify the exact length of buffer zone for Goa wildlife sanctuaries but said that ‘it should be in several kilometers.’ On Thursday, Gadgil, made a presentation of his report, which has been lying with the Ministry …
A Forest Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has stated that the state government project to build a dam on river Kalu in Thane district should be scrapped. The Bombay high court had asked the committee to submit its report/suggestions/recommendations about the dam to the central …
Kerala Cabinet on Monday decided to set up an expert committee to suggest alternatives to recommendations of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel. The committee will have representatives of the Water Resources, Power, Forests, Fisheries and Environment departments and institutions studying subjects such as environment and biodiversity. Announcing the decision …
It is now confined to 53 patches in Kerala Nestled in the deep valleys of the Western Ghats that is home to a rich diversity of flora and fauna are the vestiges of a pristine habitat that could yield precious information about evolutionary biology and climate change. Scientists from the …
Kerala on Monday said it cannot accept recommendations of the Madhav Gadgil report on Western Ghats as most of its suggestions were impractical to implement and said the State could protect its environment within provisions of existing laws. “The Gadgil report places several restrictions on human activities in the Western …
NOT TOO long ago, most of India was clothed in forest. From the stately temperate forests of the lower Himalayas to the moist shola forests of the southern Western Ghats, and from the verdant mangrove forests of the Sunderbans to the Sal forests of central India, forests have evolved to …
New Delhi: Who wouldn’t want to replace polluting energy with clean, renewable energy? Surprisingly, some wouldn’t. Because, sometimes they end up paying a heavier ecological price for it. Communities in many parts of the country are fighting a war against ‘clean energy’ projects that have proved to be far from …
Climate change may prove beneficial to Kerala in select sectors notwithstanding its negative impacts, including sea-level rise. The silver lining in the cloud is that it will increase the production of cocoa, coconut, and arecanut and positively influence the recruitment and catches of oil sardine during the post-south-west monsoon, says …
The Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel's (WGEEP) report had a bearing on the World Heritage Committee's decision on heritage status for the Western Ghats, though the government is yet to accept the findings. The Committee recently deferred the decision following a report of the International Union for Conservation of Nature …
This working paper describe the context and challenges of landscape-scale conservation amidst plantations and forests and other tropical ecosystems in the Western Ghats, India. Agricultural expansion has historically been the major global cause for the loss and fragmentation of natural ecosystems, and today remains one of the largest threats to …
PANJIM: National Green Tribunal Wednesday issued notices to six states, including Goa and Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF), in response to the petition filed by five non-government organisations (NGOs) vis-à-vis Gadgil panel report on the Western Ghats. The NGOs in their petition filed before the tribunal had pleaded …
The National Green Tribunal has sought the reply of Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) on a plea against grant of any clearance to any new project in ecologically sensitive Western Ghats. The Tribunal also issued notices to the state governments of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Goa, Kerala, Gujarat and Tamil …
There is a pertinent need to protect the birds of the Nilgiris by installing nest boxes, feeding and providing them with water, said P.J. Vasanthan, Deputy Director of Medical Services of The Nilgiris. He was speaking on the subject ‘Birds of Nilgiris' at the Enviro Meet organised by Osai. Endemic …
Wildlife officials have submitted a proposal to the State Government to create a new tiger reserve in the existing Grizzled Giant Squirrel sanctuary in Srivilliputhur in Virudhunagar district. Shekhar Kumar Niraj, Conservator of Forests, Virudhunagar Circle, says that in the recent population monitoring exercises, tigers were sighted frequently in the …
