Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
C. Jaishankar They have high value in commercial market worldwide PROFITABLE:Ornamental fishes produced at Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute at Mandapam. RAMANATHAPURAM: The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, CMFRI, Mandapam has developed a new technology for growing marine ornamental fishes, which have high value in commercial market world wide. G. …
KOLKATA, 18 March: The ministry of Earth Sciences is sending a team to the Arctic region for conducting a study on climate change next week. The change of climate in the Arctic region will affect the monsoon pattern of India adversely which in turn will affect the food resources in …
CUDDALORE: A five-year research by marine biologists has now made it possible to breed marine ornamental fishes in hatcheries even using low saline estuarine water
Intensive sampling was carried out in the marine environment of Mumbai and Jawaharlal Nehru ports to investigate the composition of benthic sessile population on three different occasions during 2001 to 2002. this study recorded 29 species of hard substratum fauna and 14 associated fauna. The acorn barnacle Balanus amphitrite and …
Praveen Paul Joseph Tuticorin: With a view to enhance the population of seahorse, an endangered species, in captivity breeding and sea ranching in the natural habitats for replenishment of stock, the Tamil Nadu Forest Department has sanctioned a pilot project on an outlay of Rs. 1.5 lakh to Suganthi Devadason …
Divya Gandhi Bangalore: Plankton prairies, that generate much of the oxygen we breathe, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, where currents have deposited the world
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: Gujarat Ecological Education Research (Geer) Foundation has conducted a unique study on the growth of corals around Kutch coastline. The study recorded a growth rate of 0.42 cm to 0.76 cm per annum of main coral species in this coastal area. Director of Geer, CN …
BHUBANESWAR: City-based Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture (CIFA) has bagged two competitive projects worth Rs 3.58 crore and Rs 5.03 crore respectively as a lead centre to work for three years under the National Agriculture Innovation Project (NAIP). The projects under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research will involve developing …
The world's embattled coral reefs provide habitat for some 9 million species, including 4000 kinds of fish. Roughly 100 million people in developing countries depend on reefs for subsistence fishing and tourism, estimates the Global Environmental Facility (GEF). The "rainforests of the sea," however, are threatened by human activity and …
After a long history of overexploitation, increasing efforts to restore marine ecosystems and rebuild fisheries are under way. Here, we analyze current trends from a fisheries and conservation perspective. In 5 of 10 well-studied ecosystems, the average exploitation rate has recently declined and is now at or below the rate …
Nagaland Government has adopted Chocolate Mahseer (Neolissochilus hexagonolepis) found in rivers and rivulets of hilly terrains as the State fish. According to the latest annual report of State Fisheries Department Chocolate Mahseer has been adopted as the State fish and studies of collections, artificial propagation and research programmes are being …
environmental sciences Foster care The large blue butterfly, Maculinea arion, knows how to fool ants into raising their caterpillars. But when the ant, Myrmica sabuleti, disappear there survival is at stake, a study has shown. The butterfly lays eggs on thyme flowers and the caterpillars fall on the ground after …
Hrusikesh Mohanty / Berhampur July 1, 2009, 0:41 IST For the first time in Orissa, seaweed cultivation has started on an experimental basis. Red algae, a seaweed and a potential source of the phycocolloid agar, has been cultivated in Langaleswar village near Khallikote, off Ganjam coast with the involvement of …
