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 …
A UN Forum on Forests has been established by the United Nations Economic and Social Council. The forum has been set up to promote the management and conservation of all types of forests. It also aims for sustainable development. The forum will try to strengthen long-term political commitment of the …
Lethal infections are killing off populations of creatures ranging from vultures to kangaroos, from coral to honeybees and from amphibians to reptiles. More than pollution, diseases spread by humans are today the biggest threat to a variety of species. For long, ecologists, biologists and governments ignored the threat that emerging …
vultures are gregarious scavengers. They sit in large sized groups, hunched, looking for carrion. But soon there might not be enough of them surviving to perch in groups. High mortality rates have been recorded among several species of the vulture found in the country. A new study reveals that a …
The Argentinean government has ordered 3,000 cattle to be killed, after ten Paraguayan cattle were found to be infected with antibodies of the virus that causes foot-and-mouth disease. According to agricultural officials, the cattle were not suffering from active cases of the disease. Since Argentine exports for grass-fed beef are …
in the last ten years, exotic diseases affecting the livestock have led to a loss of Rs 500 crore. This was stated by the Union agriculture minister, Nitish Kumar. The diseases - 39 listed so far - are a result of crossbreeding programmes conducted to upgrade the livestock quality. This …
nandankanan, immortalised as a symbol of life and love in Oriya literature and movie songs, stinks of death. On July 5th, this zoological park, situated on the outskirts of Bhubaneshwar, Orissa, became the cremation site for 12 Royal Bengal tigers, which died after contracting tripanosomiasis , a parasitic infection. The …
finally, there is some respite for the sheep-raising farmers of San Juan de Jarpa and Yanacancha districts in the upper reaches of the Cunas river in the Peruvian highlands. Distomatosis, a parasitic disease locally known as alicuya, had severely affected the sheep and cattle population, resulting in high mortality rate, …
The sarcoptic mange (an itching disease that afflicts hairy and wooly animals) epidemic that killed several infant chimpanzees a few years ago in Tanzania's Gombe National Park is "most likely over", according to the director of chimpanzee research there. Shadrack Kamenya of the Jane Goodall Institute told the African Wildlife …
uk's penguin population is being severely hit by a brain disease believed to be linked to an outbreak of bird malaria. All 26 rare penguins at Marwell Zoo in Hampshire have died and Edinburgh Zoo has lost several since the start of the summer. Penguin experts have linked the deaths …
Foot and mouth disease has broken out in Livingstone and surrounding areas. HumphreyMwalemi, veterinary officer, Kalomo district, said his department has imposed a ban on the movement of livestock, meat and milk from Livingstone, Zimba and Kalomo. But some residents have complained that veterinary officers have teamed up with Zambia …
more than a hundred cows have died in a span of four months in Rajasthan's Sar region, 23 km from Jodhpur. Though authorities have refused to give any reason for the deaths, it is said that the cows died after drinking contaminated water. According to the collector of Jodhpur, V …
Although Canada's west coast is known for disputes over the Pacific salmon, wild salmon in the north Atlantic Ocean and farm-raised salmon have been making headlines. The salmon population in the North Atlantic dropped to 114,000 mature fish in 1998, its lowest point ever. Meanwhile, salmon farmers in the Canadian …
Britain plans to kill as many as 20,000 badgers in several hot spots for bovine tuberculosis over the next four years. But the move is facing stiff internal opposition. Signatories to the Bern Convention on wildlife protection in Europe had voted to @4nvestigate whether the experimental cull violates three articles …
SCIENTISTS are studying the potential for a new, more potent strain of the rabbitkilling calicivirus after the failure of the existing virus in large parts of Australia's temperate regions. The government's chief scientist, Brian Cooke, said after the calicivirus' stunning debut in Australia's arid regions, the calicivirus was performing well …
TOXIC industrial chemicals have been discovered in the tissues of whales that normally feed in the deep waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Even though the quantities found may not be harmful, their findings show how far the chemicals have penetrated the ocean's food chain. The chemicals found are the polybrominated …
ANTHRAX, a deadly disease, is caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. In humans, infection usually affects the skin, causing development of a pustule, or the lungs, causing Woolsorters' disease, a kind of pneumonia. In animals, especially sheep and cattle, it takes the form of fatal acute septicaemia (poisoning of blood …
Pollution could be the cause of a distressing disease that is killing African elephants by paralysing their trunks. Experts from the uk have been called to investigate the disease, known as flaccid trunk paralysis, that leaves animals unable to feed. The origin of the disease is yet not known. However, …
polar bear cubs have been found with severe deformities in the Norwegian Arctic territory. Pollution levels are known to be high in this region. Researchers have found some of the bears with both male and female sex organs. Such deformities may be due to exposure of polychlorinated biphenyl chemicals ( …
The Union government is expected to sanction about Rs 4,000 crore per annum for implementing various watershed programmes throughout the country, says G B Singh, deputy director general, National Resource Management of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (icar), New Delhi. The Taj Mahal, which has been exposed to pollution, rain, …
when a population is exposed to the same infectious agent, not all individuals show susceptibility to the infection. To find out the reason, M J Stear and colleagues of the Glasgow University Veterinary School, uk , investigated the basis of resistance to nematode infection in sheep. Nematode worms are major …
