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 …
NEW DELHI: States through which the Ganga flows will soon be given additional funding to operate and maintain projects to clean the river and restore its environmental health. However, States lobbied for more aid and free power to those affected by scrapping of hydel projects. At a meeting of the …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will release the conservation and action plan for Ganga river dolphins at the second meeting of the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) in New Delhi tomorrow. NGRBA expert member R.K. Sinha told The Telegraph today:
New Delhi: The Ganga will be pure and free of pollutants by 2020, the Centre promised before the SC on Friday. Without dwelling on the past when nearly 1,000 crore was spent under the failed Ganga Action Plan initiated in the late 1980s, attorney general G E Vahanvati assured a …
The Centre for Environment Education (CEE) has come forward to help conservation of river dolphins with schoolchildren being a core part of the team. The target is to reach out to almost 120-125 schools in the state which will be divided into five clusters, including Subansiri to Biswanath Ghat, Guwahati …
The facts: Some dolphin species face an uncertain future, especially river species such as the Amazon River Dolphin, and the Ganges and Yangtze River Dolphin, all of whom are critically or seriously endangered. A 2006 survey found no individuals of the Yangtze River Dolphin, leading to the conclusion that the …
Akshaya Kumar Sahoo The State Board for Wildlife, the high-power body chaired by the chief minister Naveen Patnaik, has not met even once in the last two years MASSIVE URBANISATION and industrialisation in Orissa is now taking its toll on the wildlife resources. This apart, the alleged apathy of the …
Dibrugarh, Oct. 5: A prominent environment group today said construction of mega dams in Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya would destroy the habitat of endangered Gangetic dolphin, underscoring the need for a comprehensive study before the projects get experts
Ghaziabad: The heavy discharge of industrial effluents has severely affected aquatic fauna at the Ramsar site, set up in River Ganga in 165 km stretch from Bijnore to Narora in Uttar Pradesh. Ramsar sites are a tag for critical water bodies across the globe. Discharge of toxic wastes such as …
400 sq m Of Marine Habitat Under Threat; Coast Guard Warns Of Oil SpillViju B | TNNMumbai: A cargo ship ran into a coral reef off the Kavaratti Island in Lakshadweep, damaging around 400 square metres of the pristine reef that
The critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphins here in the Chilika Lake which are a tourist attraction generating Rs 80 crore in annual revenue may be coming to harm from increasing noise pollution from private tourist boats. "We make sure that the 18 boats we operate make little noise lest it disturb …
BHUBANESWAR: A special component has been proposed under the Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) project to expand the present monitoring mechanisms of dolphins and birds. There is always a conflict in Orissa between conservation issues and livelihood concerns including socio-economic needs of a large number of people. As development activities …
Taking Note Of Their Dwindling Population, MoEF Notifies Ganges River Dolphins As National Aquatic Animal Neha Shukla | TNN Lucknow: The Ganges river dolphin were a commonly sighted playful creatures in the Ganga along Varanasi till few years back. But now it is difficult to spot them. The decreasing number …
Starting Tuesday, the Ganges River Dolphin is officially the national aquatic animal of India. The Environment Ministry notified the endangered species
Patna, May 2: The state government will submit a detailed report on the killing of four Gangetic dolphins within two weeks. The killing of four national aquatic animals by poachers on Thursday here prompted the Union environment and forests ministry to express its
With the endangered dolphins proving to be effective indicators to evaluate the success of the ongoing Ganga Action Plan, by virtue of their survivability in the river water, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-India is mooting the Dolphin Action Plan. The project, to be submitted to the Environment Ministry soon, is …
The mayor of a Japanese town, which conducts an annual dolphin hunt, has protested the Academy Award given to The Cove, a documentary on grisly slaughter. The film follows activists who struggle with the Japanese police and fishermen to reach a secluded cove in Taiji in southern Japan, where dolphins …
The campaign to save Majuli, the largest riverine island in the world, received a shot in the arm on Tuesday with Union Forest and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh saying the Centre would soon declare it an eco-sensitive zone.
