Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding News Item titled "Endangered Gangetic dolphins found in most tributaries of Ganges prompting urgent conservation" appearing in Mongaby- India dated 20.05.2024 dated 01/05/2025. Counsel appearing for the Wildlife Institute of India seeks further two weeks’ time to file the additional reply in terms …
Already facing various threats, the Gangetic dolphin population in the state could face more dangers with the start of seismic survey of the Brahmaputra. Experts fear that activities carried under the seismic survey could seriously harm the small population found in the river.
Clearing the air over the seismic survey on the Brahmaputra riverbed, the Multi Disciplinary Advisory Group (MDAG), constituted by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests for providing guidance on seismic survey, today clarified that Oil India Limited (OIL) had not been allowed to carry out any survey.
GUWAHATI, Dec 15: Green signal from the Multi-Disciplinary Group (MDAG) constituted in accordance with the directive of the Ministry of Environment and Forest is a must for Oil India Limited (OIL) to conduct the proposed seismic survey of the Brahmaputra bed. The MDAG will give its mandatory nod only if …
Sindh Wildlife Minister Daya Ram told the provincial legislative house that the Indus River has a reserve of around 922 Blind Dolphins. Responding to a question, he said that the government has taken effective measures to prevent the extinction of the blind dolphins, whose number has increased from 150 in …
MUCH to the pleasure of the wildlife conservationists, a survey along Bangladesh's coast and estuaries counted about six thousand of the Irrawaddy dolphins. Their existence was believed to be under serious threat. The International Union of Conservation of Nature had put it in the list of critically endangered animals. The …
River dolphins, gavial (gharial) and turtles have almost been extinct from the rivers of the country. When the list of near extinct animals is increasing it is a rare opportunity to watch river dolphins and gavial (gharial) in the rivers of Bangladesh. In an interview with the BSS, Chief Executive …
Visakhapatnam, Aug. 13: The wildlife wing of the state forests department decided to seek conservation plan for highly endangered species from all the forest conservators on the Andhra Pradesh coast. Responding to a report appeared in these columns,
Sunny Sebastian Endangered Gangetic River Dolphins can be sighted in the river in Dholpur district of Rajasthan A rare sighting of a Gangetic river dolphin in the Chambal river. JAIPUR: Want to have the pleasure of watching the critically endangered Gangetic river dolphins in Rajasthan, the place you normally won't …
Human interference has altered for worse eco-systems in every corner of the globe. Ironically, scientific developments have hastened its deleterious impact, with faunal and floral species bearing the brunt of man's rapacity and capacity to destroy. The number of endangered species in the Red Data Book of the International Union …
The last population assessment survey (2008) of the Gangetic river dolphin in the entire Brahmaputra river system has shown a marginal increase in its number. In 2005, the population of the endangered aquatic mammal was estimated at 250, which, according to the latest survey, has increased to 265. This was …
A two-day Children's Summit, organised on the occasion of the World Environment Day by the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES), concluded here today, stated a press release. Around 300 children took out a colourful march, flagged off by Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain, through the heart of …
The State Government today declared the endangered Gangetic river dolphin as the State Aquatic Animal. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi announced this during a World Environment Day celebration here today. The decision would add teeth to the conservation measures initiated by the State Government to save this endangered species, which was …
The endangered river dolphin, found in the Brahmaputra river system, was declared as the State aquatic animal of Asom today. The formal declaration was made by Asom Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi in a function organised by the State Forest department and the State Pollution Control Board to mark World Environment …
Researchers have identified a new species of river dolphin in the Bolivian Amazon. Locally known as bufeo, the Bolivian river dolphin (Inia boliviensis) is smaller and lighter in colour than the Amazon pink river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) found widely in the Amazon and Orinoco rivers. Found in remote parts of …
New Zealand plans to ban commercial fishing near its coast and set up marine reserves to protect the rare Hector's dolphins, a government minister said on Thursday The Hector's dolphin is estimated to number around 7,400 from 29,000 in the late 1970s. However, one of its sub-species, the Maui dolphin, …
Ignorant villages beat a male dolphin to death and grievously injured another female dolphin in the Sharda canal in Nagram village, on the outskirts of Lucknow. The dolphins had strayed into the canal and the villagers mistook it for some "killer fish" and beat it with rods. One of the …
After dolphins, leopards have taken the state by surprise. Sighted in kandi belt, the wild cat, it was learnt, has made the area its new habitat. Sources say earlier, leopards used to come to Hoshiarpur, Garhshankar, Siswan and Pathankot in winter, from November to February, as the hilly regions became …
Despite the mysterious death of more than 100 gharials in the Chambal river in the past three months, the Madhya Pradesh government today claimed that gharial and Magar population in Chambal national park has markedly increased while Gangestic river dolphins declined. A survey conducted on 435 Km stretch of the …
The management of a milk processing plant has been called by the government to explain why it has not been following environmentally-friendly practices and to submit some relevant reports here on Monday, it has been reliably learnt. Before taking any action against the milk processing plant located along the Indus …
A dead dolphin, washed ashore at the beach behind Theosophical Society in Adyar, has raised concern among environmental activists. This is the third dolphin to be found dead on the Chennai coast in the past one month. According to Supraja Dharani, chairperson, TREE foundation, it was a Risso's dolphin, a …
