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. …
Some of the best brains in the world have come together in Bangalore to discuss forest canopies and explore the ways of combining disciplinary approaches to the pertinent questions on environment, social and conservation relevance. The six-day fifth international conference on canopy began at JN Tata Auditorium, IISc on Monday. …
Coffee Board chief wants good tree cover over estates Demand may exceed production in five years from now CHIKMAGALUR: G.V. Krishna Rau, chairman of the Coffee Board, said on Saturday that tree cover in 1,20,000 hectares of land in the Western Ghats region had been reduced because of expansion of …
This paper documents the status of the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), its distribution, movement, migratory routes and other elephant and habitat management related information across the administrative ranges of Kalakkad and Mundunthurai Tiger Reserve (KMTR) in Southern India.
A reconnaissance survey was undertaken to assess the responses of ground insect communities to habitat restoration efforts in the Attappady hills, Western Ghats. Diversity patterns of various ground insect assemblages such as ants, beetles, etc. were compared across an age trajectory of restored sites. The diversity of these assemblages was …
MANGALORE: The Western Ghats Task Force will submit the bio-diversity study report, compiled by it over the last one year, to the Government on September 26, said its chairman Ananth Hegde Ashisar at a press conference here on Thursday. Mr. Ashisar said that the report, which had been compiled by …
The state of Kerala in the southwestern corner of the Indian peninsula is climatically unique in many respects because of the impact of the Western Ghat Mountains. This results in a wide range of climates and the associated marked gradient in the annual total of rainfall which ranges from ~6000 …
K.S. Sudhi KOCHI: Scientists are working on projects for sequencing the DNA of a wide variety of trees, fishes, insects and animals as part of a project for barcoding life. Researchers of the Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI), Peechi, Thrissur, are working on projects to barcode Oak Leaf butterflies (Satyrid …
Joe C Mathew / New Delhi August 31, 2009, 0:15 IST Jairam rameshThe Ministry of Environment and Forests has abolished the system of in-principle approvals, to put an end to the practice of launching projects without obtaining the final clearance. The move signals that the ministry has begun to take …
State government report stops short of taking action a government inspection of 48 mines in Goa found 35 of them operating without a lease. Some of them did not have mandatory clearances. A committee chaired by the state
C. Jaishankar To check electrical fencing and prevent death of elephants To prevent unlawful tapping of power Vulnerable places, elephant corridors identified RAMANATHAPURAM: The Forest Department will commence joint patrolling exercises with the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) along the districts covered by the Western ghats to prevent the death …
Worried over the potential negative impact of global warming on Western Ghats, Karnataka is seeking the Centre's help to set up a research centre to record the process of climate change at the biodiversity hot spot. "Climate change poses a serious threat to the pristine wealth of Western Ghats in …
Mullaiahnagiri, Bababudangiri, Kemmangundi chain of hills in Western Ghats are said to be the most sensitive regions. Since the sthese hills naturally form the shape of a crescent moon, they are named as
Chief Minister Digambar Kamat assured the House on Tuesday that operation of no new mine would be allowed in the Western Ghats area of the state. Referring to the people
Jairam Ramesh raises environmental issue with Karnataka Chief Minister 1,900 acres of forest will be drowned Forestry clearance yet to be obtained NEW DELHI: Asserting that environmental and forestry clearance should not be taken for granted, Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has written to Karnataka Chief …
FOREST conservation in the central Western Ghats of south India was shaped by colonial and post-colonial desires to create a modern, improved and ordered landscape primarily through promoting a plantationbased economy. In the process, forest dependent com- munities were marginalised This and a host of other new information came forth …
Says MoEF clearance for hydel project a formality on may 23, chief minister B S Yeddyurappa laid the foundation stone of a 200 MW hydro-power plant at Yettinahole in Karnataka
Concerned over the rapid depletion in forest cover in Karnataka, a city based NGO has started a unique 'million trees' project supported by corporates covering all districts and addressing factors like changing climatic condition, erratic rainfall pattern, high carbon emissions and loss of water bodies. Karnataka at present has just …
