Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
White nose syndrome, a devastating disease that has killed more than one million bats in the Northeast, has been found in Maine, the last New England state to discover it, wildlife officials said on Tuesday. Diminishing populations of bats, an important predator of insects, could have harmful consequences for humans, …
MUMBAI: A study carried out in India has shown that the ban on veterinary drug diclofenac, blamed for the diminishing vulture populationin south Asia , seems to be effective, with the proportion of cattle carcasses contaminated with diclofenac declining by over 40% between 2006 and 2008. Here's some good new …
School children in the US were served 200,000 kilos of meat contaminated with a deadly antibiotic-resistant bacteria before the nation's second largest meat packer issued a recall in 2009. A year earlier, six babies died and 300,000 others got horribly sick with kidney problems in China when one of the …
It will take at least 10 years to eradicate the H5N1 bird flu virus, which has killed scores of humans, from poultry in the six countries where it is endemic, a UN agency said on April 21. The strain of the avian influenza virus was reported in 60 countries at …
Eliminating the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus from poultry in the six countries where it remains endemic will take ten or more years, according to a FAO report.
Animal Husbandry Minister Ajay Vishnoi has said that along with progress in the animal husbandry sector, several diseases have also come to the fore like bird flu. There is a need to train Animal Husbandry Department
Surveillance throughout Tripura has been intensified to monitor further spread of bird flu infection after laboratory tests confirmed H5 strains in the poultry samples collected from state poultry farm, Gandhigram, official sources today said. Tests conducted at ERDDL, Kolkata and High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL), Bhopal have confirmed that …
AGARTALA, March 6: Fresh cases of avian influenza or bird flu have been detected in another Tripura poultry farm, and culling of birds is expected to start on Monday, an official said here on Sunday.
Sipahijala sanctuary Agartala, March 3: Close on the heels of an avian flu outbreak in the state, an unidentified disease has claimed the lives of 10 birds of varied species and three animals in the Sipahijala sanctuary in the past three days. Authorities of the santuary, 30km south of this …
FOR the past two years Badaliya has been participating in a village camel fair, organised about 60 km from Bikaner in Rajasthan. But this January she did not. She was suffering from pneumonia, having fever and continuous nasal discharge of phlegm. Badaliya is not alone. The contagious disease has affected …
The bird flu scare has again come back to hit the sale of chicken and eggs in East Godavari district. The departments concerned including animal husbandry, medical and health are on high alert and have started precautionary steps including collection of blood samples of all abnormal dead birds, which has …
Bird flu has struck the country again. This time at the State Duck Breeding Farm in Agartala that has been ordered to cull all poultry within a radius of three kilometres of the farm. The State will also impose a ban on movement of poultry and its products and order …
Barely eight months after India declared itself free from avian influenza (bird flu) in June 2010, this fatal and highly contagious disease has resurfaced in Tripura. Samples of sick poultry birds from the government duck farm at R K Nagar in Agartala were yesterday found to contain H5 strain of …
Long distance migrations by ungulate species often surpass the boundaries of preservation areas where conflicts with various publics lead to management actions that can threaten populations. We chose the partially migratory bison (Bison bison) population in Yellowstone National Park as an example of integrating science into management policies to better …
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, aka "mad cow disease", is almost extinct just 25 years after it was discovered. However, more cases of the human equivalent, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), may be waiting in the wings. New Scientist's analysis of the latest official BSE figures reveal the death throes of a terrifying …
Captivity does not suit elephants. A recent survey of 367 captive elephants in the southern states of India has found that over 60 were suffering from TB. More than forty elephants housed in temples used to touch the heads of pilgrims as a form of benediction were found infected. In …
Sockeye salmon in one of Canada's key but troubled fisheries on the Pacific Coast may have a genetic flaw that makes them more susceptible to disease, according to a study released on Thursday. Researchers have found a genetic profile in some of sockeye in British Columbia's Fraser River that indicates …
