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Order of the High Court of Tripura regarding the status of HIV/AIDS in Tripura, 09/01/2025

Order of the High Court of Tripura in the matter of Court on its own motion Vs The Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare & Others dated 09/01/2025. The HC was informed that National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) has granted approval for establishing two new Facility-integrated ART Centres (Fi-ARTC) …

Bird arrivals at state wetlands remain constant at 1.25 lakh

With more than 1.25 lakh winged guests thronging Punjab’s four wetlands, the number of migratory birds arriving in the state remained consistent this season. According to a census of migratory birds carried out by the state Department of Forests and Wildlife, more than 90 species of migratory birds were found …

Shrinking Harike sees 30% less migratory birds

While the percentage of migratory birds which arrived at Harike wetland this year has gone down by almost 30 per cent, the number of species spotted has gone up by six. During a recently concluded survey, a total of 72,562 birds of 79 species were spotted. During the previous census …

No action against men booked for illegal poaching, fishing

Despite registration of an FIR against the contractors indulging in illegal poaching and fishing within and outside the wildlife sanctuary of Harike Pattan, flouting the blanket ban, the police have not been able to arrest any of them. About ten days ago, wildlife officials got the FIR registered against Mehla …

Fish poaching poses threat to Harike ecosystem

Poaching of fish in the Harike Wetlands, where the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) intends to conduct a bio-monitoring project, threatens to endanger the wildlife habitat in the sanctuary. Information with The Indian Express reveals that in the last two months alone, authorities have booked five people under the Wildlife Protection …

WWF to carry out bio-monitoring project at Harike

To study bio-diversity and the ecosystem, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has decided to carry out a bio-monitoring project on the Harike wetlands, the wildlife sanctuary that stunned conservationists after one of the world

Wetlands of Punjab

The state of Punjab has been left with less than 1% of the area under wetlands. About 30 wetlands, most of which are of natural origin were reported to occur in the state although some have already lost their wetland characteristics.

New species of birds spotted in Harike

Harike (Ferozepur), February 4 The two-day census carried out in Harike wildlife sanctuary, which concluded on February 1, 2010, has revealed that the new species of birds had come to this wetland this winter season for the first time. The Wildlife Department authorities claimed that other positive trend, which was …

Wildlife Dept to conduct survey of Harike birds

In an ambitious project to study the changing trends of the bird population, migration and biodiversity besides a proper documentation of the Harike wetland and sanctuary, the Punjab Wildlife Department has decided to conduct a survey of the birds. This is for the first time that the government has taken …

Pollution, poaching keep away birds from Harike

Rise in pollution levels, dying natural habitats and threat of poaching have led to a decrease in the number of migratory birds at the Harike wetland. Spread over 100 square kilometres, the wetland attracts lakhs of birds from Central Asia and trans-Russian region every year. Although there has been no …

About one lakh migratory birds reach wetland

Harike, one of the largest wetlands of northern India, is witnessing the arrival of a large number of migratory birds from Siberia and Central Asia as the winter intensifies. Birds belonging to about 30 varieties have descended on the wetland so far and are enjoying a habitat best suited to …

Bird sanctuary under threat of encroachers

The Harike wetland, which came into existence in 1952 after the construction of a barrage on the confluence of the Sutlej and Beas rivers and was subsequently declared a bird sanctuary in 1982, has come under severe threat from the encroachers. About 898 acres of land of sanctuary is under …

DCs told not to allot land in Harike area

Deputy Commissioners of Kaputhala, Ferozepur and Tarn Taran districts have been told not to allot land to

The saving grace: Harike

In 2000, it took a military operation to halt the march of water hyacinth in Harike, one of the internationally protected wetlands in India, famous for a large number of birds, both local and migratory. The invasive hyacinth problem was squeezing the life out of its 41-square-metre area for some …

Somethings fishy here

Faridkot/Harike - TOXIN UNLEASHED: Sirhind and Rajasthan feeder canals become deathbed of aquatic life Mohan, who sells ice-cream near the banks of Sirhind and Rajasthan feeder canals in the periphery of Faridkot, has a choice to put up his mobile stall elsewhere. But, a few metres away along the banks, …

Indus dolphin in Punjab

there is considerable excitement in Harike wetland in Punjab over the sudden appearance of Indus river dolphins, an endangered species found only in Pakistan. "When I saw the hump and the snout, I knew they were Indus-river dolphins,' says Basanta Kumar, divisional forest officer of Harike Wetland and Wildlife Sanctuary. …

Mapping, monitoring and conservation of Harike wetland ecosystem, Punjab, India, through remote sensing

The Ramsar Convention of IUCN held in 1971 in Iran raised global awareness of the conservation and management of wetlands. Wetlands, the transitional zones that occupy an intermediate position between dryland and open water, regulate the flow of water and nutrients, thereby facilitating optimum functioning of the physical and biological …

The birds are back

almost 30,000 migratory birds have arrived at the Harike wetland lake at Ferozepur, Punjab, a result of a massive lake cleanup operation. In four months, at least 125,000 tonnes of water hyacinth were cleared from the lake by the army. Coot, common pochard, shoveller, brahmini duck, common teel, pintail and …

Weevils gobble up weeds

A tiny "hazardous' insect, weevil, considered a major threat to horticulture and floriculture sectors, is being successfully used to clear the weeds from Harke reserve lake in Amritsar. Ram Kishan, director of the Irrigation and Power Research Institute (IPRI), Amritsar, says that the insects do no allow the water hyacinth …

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