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. …
Biodiversity is the source of all ecological goods and services that constitute the source of living of all. India is not only gifted with geographical, climatic, cultural and social diversity but is also endowed enormously with biological diversity. The country is among the 12 mega gene centres of the world, …
Biodiversity is the source of all ecological goods and services that constitute the source of living of all. India is not only gifted with geographical, climatic, cultural and social diversity but is also endowed enormously with biological diversity. The country is among the 12 mega gene centres of the world, …
By Shankar Sharma The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) is entrusted with the responsibility of protecting our forests, rivers and environment so that a sustainable and healthy lifestyle is achievable for our people. Protecting the ecologically precious and highly sensitive natural resources such as Western Ghats and Himalayas …
Western Ghat Task Force President Ananth Hegde Asisara has said that government has accepted the recommendation of the Task Force to stop mining of iron ore and Manganese in Western Ghats, which is an ecological hotspot. Addressing a news conference at Deputy Commissioner
A new species of frog has been discovered in the Western Ghats and Mangalore, by a team of researchers from St Aloysius College. Addressing a news conference, St Aloysius College Principal Swebert D
High taxonomic level endemism in the Western Ghats-Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot has been typically attributed to the subcontinent's geological history of long-term isolation. Subsequent out of - and into India dispersal of species after accretion to the Eurasian mainland is therefore often seen as a biogeographic factor that
The Centre will soon release Rs 700 crore for the conservation of forests in the State, besides extending a special grant for the development and conservation of ecologically-sensitive Western Ghats, Union Forest Minister Jairam Ramesh said on Tuesday. Ramesh held a breakfast meeting with Chief Minister Yeddyurappa, Energy Minister K …
Western Ghats Task Force Chairman Ananth Hegde Ashisara said a proposal has been sent to the Union government with an appeal to utilise the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) to protect medicinal herbs in collaboration with the Forest and Horticulture departments. Addressing a two-day State-level workshop on
There would be landslide in Neriya at any time, says Ashisara Western Ghats Task Force Chairman Anantha Hegade Ashisara has urged the district administration to take immediate precautionary measures to prevent any possible landslide in Neriya of Belthangady taluk. He visited the place on Sunday that had witnessed a major …
BHARAT DOGRA WHILE environmental issues have come to the forefront of election campaigns in some western countries, this is yet to happen in India. However, a welcome initiative that was taken at the time of the recent Lok Sabha elections in the Western Ghats region in this direction deserves attention …
Pune Tata Power's three hydroelectric power stations at Khopoli, Bhira and Bhivpuri supply India's financial capital with 450 MW of life-giving electricity. So much so that the company's methodology of large-scale plantations in the catchments of the Western Ghats - the global hotspot that is host to at least 4,000 …
Subhash Chandra N S, Bangalore, DH News Service: A group of wildlife researchers and the State Forest department have recently discovered the largest population of the critically endangered Lion tailed macaque (Macaca silenus), numbering over 600, in the forests of Sirsi-Honnavar in the Western Ghats. The Lion tailed macaque nestles …
Pteidophytes do not form dominant vegetation anywhere on the earth surface now, but have been replaced by the seed bearing plants. Their occurrence in several small patches relays the message of richness. During the present study, 24 species of Pteridophytes were reinventoried from Vilavancode, Kalkulam and Thovalai sacred groves of …
This communication elaborates a case study in Kerala, where 61 surveys have been conducted from 1990 to 2008 in 21 protected areas and reserve forests in the southern Western Ghats for monitoring bird fauna using the amateur bird-watcher network. Four different methodologies have been used in these surveys, with encounter-based …
In places adjoining Western Ghats VIRUDHUNAGAR: An estimate to take up several works at a cost of Rs. 3.75 crore under the Western Ghats Development Programme in Virudhunagar district has been sent for government approval. Addressing a meeting to review the progress of the programme here on Wednesday, Collector K. …
The Watershed Department is all set to distribute 5 lakh sapplings of various plants in Koppa, N R Pura and Sringeri taluks. The department had grown sapplings of silver oak, teak, cashew, acacia and jack at their centres in N R Pura, Kalmakki and Balagadi. The sapplings, which were nurtured …
Producers get a boost coorg green cardamom, grown in southwest Karnataka, has received the geographical area indicator or GI status. This means only cardamom grown in Kodagu
A major component of the bird flu drug, it is in short supply one way to prepare for the bird flu epidemic is to store large quantities of the drug Tamiflu. The drug blocks the enzyme responsible for helping the virus break the host cell membrane to get out, and …
MYSORE: Wildlife biologist M.D. Madhusudhan has been awarded the Whitley Award in recognition of his work to reduce human-wildlife conflict in the Western Ghats. He is the Director of the Mysore-based Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF). The award, reckoned to be one of the most important international nature conservation awards, includes …
