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. …
Minutes of the meeting dated 4/03/2011 on environmental clearance for the development of hill station township (1st Phase -2000 ha) at Village Mulsi and Velhe Talukas, District Pune, Maharashtra by M/s. Lavasa Corporation Ltd [F.No. 21-9/2011-IA.III.
UNESCO has suggested nominating the 39 serial sites of the Western Ghats for the World Heritage List under properties of evolutionary importance besides the earlier nominations in two categories. The latest nomination comes in category nine of the Operational Guidelines (OG) of the World Heritage Convention for the protection of …
The present study deals with floristic analysis, phytodiversity and endemism of Sulimudi area in Idamalayar Forest Range of Malayattur Forest Division in Kerala state.
Kodagu district produces 2% of the world’s coffee, in complex, multistoried agroforestry systems. The forests of the district harbour a large population of the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus). The combined effects of high elephant density and major landscape changes due to the expansion of coffee cultivation are the cause of …
The Western Ghats Task Force has recommended to the State Government to take up only ecologically sustainable and socially feasible development projects in the Malnad region of the State. On Tuesday, the Task Force chairman Anant Hegde Ashisar submitted the recommendations to Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa. The task force …
The environmentalists are expressing their severe concern over the systematic designs of the government to completely destroy the Western Ghats by allowing human activities in the biologically sensitive area. Some years ago, the area was resonating with the voices of birds and animals. But now the movement of tipper, trucks …
Scientists of the University of Delhi, in a collaborative programme involving researchers from other leading institutions in the country, have rediscovered five species of frogs believed extinct long ago. Chalazodes Bubble-nest Frog ( Raorchestes chalazodes), was last reported in 1874 from the Kalakkad-Mundanthurai region in the western ghats in south …
Gundia project will affect the elephant corridors, says scientist Poornaprajna College retired professor Dr N A Madyastha speaking at a public discussion on
Joypur, Dibrugarh, Feb. 13: Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi today promised a development package for Joypur, which has a patch of evergreen rainforest to turn the site into a tourist spot. Speaking at the open session on the concluding day of the three-day Jeypore Rain Forest Festival held on bank …
ENVIRONMENT minister Jairam Ramesh has asked the Karnataka government to submit a proposal to declare the Kudremukh National Park in the Western Ghats as a tiger reserve. He has also ask to remove the machinery and infrastructure belonging to the Kudremukh Iron Ore Company inside the park. The mining company …
Western Ghats Task Force (WGTF) Chairman Anatha Hegde Ashisara has urged the Centre to implement special programmes to protect rivers and lakes in South India. He was speaking after inaugurating the river source protection campaign organised by the WGTF in association with the Forest Department and Sumukha Seva Prathishtana.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Large-scale deforestation and the disturbances caused by poachers and illicit liquor-brewers could be forcing king cobras to migrate from their natural habitat in bamboo-rich dense evergreen forests to villages nearby. A study conducted by the researchers of the Department of Zoology, University of Kerala, and the Reptile Study Group, …
There is some good news for tiger lovers: preliminary results of the second all-India tiger census, due to be released in March, show a rise in the tiger density of the country
KOCHI: Interest groups holding contradictory views on the impacts of the proposed Athirappilly hydel power project will battle it out before the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) on Saturday. The WGEEP, appointed by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests, has been asked to look into and give recommendations …
KALPETTA: The Malabar Ornithological Survey 2010-11, the first ever comprehensive study on avifauna in north Kerala, has proved that the Wayanad part of the Western Ghats is a critical habitat for endemic as well as endangered birds. White-bellied Blue Flycatcher (female) The team sighted 200 species, including 14 of the …
Mettuppalayam: The Odanthurai Panchayat in Mettuppalayam at the foothills of Western Ghats on Wednesday resolved not to grant approval for conversion of agricultural lands into layouts in a bid to prevent obstructions in the elephant corridor. A gram sabha meeting adopted a resolution stating that mushrooming real estate business at …
The government has implemented several schemes to protect the Western Ghats, which is one of the 18 biodiversity hotspots in the world. However, the Shola Forests of the Western Ghats are being destroyed by the wildfire. Several Shola Forests were destroyed in the district due to wildfire. The Forest Department …
The Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) appointed by the Ministry of Environment and Forests is scheduled to visit Athirappilly on January 29 and seek the opinion of people's representatives on the proposed hydroelectric project. Addressing a press conference here on Monday, V.S. Vijayan, committee member, said the panel would …
The Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India (GOI) has been asked to identify ecologically sensitive areas (ESAs) along the Western Ghats, and to suggest how to manage them. The concept of ESAs has been extensively discussed in the literature. Several …
