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 …
The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) is calling on East African Community Partner States to enact new wildlife legislation with enhanced penalties and improve strategies and protection measures in a bid to save the region's wildlife. Findings by EALA's committee on agriculture, tourism and natural resources indicate that elephants and …
NEW DELHI: Seeking to provide more teeth to the existing wildlife protection law, the Centre is looking for an option to introduce clauses of stricter punishment and to change the law to bring it in sync with international conventions which target the trade in endangered species. One of the proposals …
Kawal measures around 2,000 sq. km in area but has just around 30-40 base camps with four-five unarmed guards. Hyderabad: Two tigers, a male and a female, which inhabit the Kawal Tiger Reserve, are under severe threat from poachers. In the past five months three poaching incidents have occurred in …
Twenty-four of Australia’s rarest tortoises have been released outside their natural range because climate change has dried out their remaining habitat. The natural range of the critically endangered western swamp tortoise, Pseudemydura umbrina, has shrunk to two isolated wetlands in Perth’s ever-growing outer suburbs, and a herpetological expert, Dr Gerald …
Concerned over the increasing number of tigers in non-protected areas, wildlife conservationists have said that it was high time the forest department shifted its focus to these areas as tigers were most vulnerable here. As per estimates, Maharashtra's tiger reserves have 139 big cats while there were around 58 tigers …
The threats of old are still the dominant drivers of current species loss, indicates an analysis of IUCN Red List data by Sean Maxwell and colleagues. Original Source
Agriculture and the overexploitation of plants and animal species are significantly greater threats to biodiversity than climate change, new analysis shows. Joint research published in the journal Nature on Wednesday found nearly three-quarters of the world’s threatened species faced these threats, compared to just 19% affected by climate change. It …
The Endangered Species Act was enacted by Congress in 1973 to protect species threatened with extinction. To receive protection, a species must first be listed as endangered or threatened. A two-year timeline for the process was established in 1982 by a Congressional amendment to the ESA. Researchers found that many …
Less than a month away from the kick-off the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Hawaii, a team of scientists reports that three quarters of the world's threatened species are imperiled because people are converting their habitat into agricultural lands and over-harvesting their populations. The team, from the University of Queensland, …
The world’s longest-studied wolf pack may have been wiped out, wildlife officials fear amid an escalating battle between federal and state authorities in Alaska over the aggressive hunting of predators such as wolves and bears. The East Fork wolf pack, found near Denali, North America’s tallest mountain, was first researched …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Endangered Species, 09/08/2016. Towards conservation of threatened (including endangered and vulnerable) species, the Government of India has established a Protected Area (PA) Network (730 PAs including 103 National Parks, 535Wildlife Sanctuaries, 26 Community Reserves, and 66 Conservation Reserves in different biogeographic regions), which primarily …
DEHRADUN: A few days after the Uttarakhand forest department disclosed that there were sightings of a tiger at 12,000 feet in the Askot wildlife sanctuary in Pithoragarh, the first time the presence of a wild cat was recorded at such altitudes anywhere in the country, there came reports on Wednesday …
The world’s top land carnivores such as tigers, lions and jaguars are coming under threat as their prey dwindles in number, according to the first global study of feeding patterns. There are only 17 four-legged predators — big cats, wolves and wild dogs — that weigh more than 15 kilos …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone Bench, Chennai) in the matter of Nimmala Ankaiah Vs Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change & Others dated 02/08/2016 regarding activities not permissible under ESZ Notification in the lands falling within the Eco Sensitive Zone (ESZ) limit of Pulicat Bird Sanctuary …
With over 10,000 tigers including other big cats in captivity globally, rampant tiger poaching in India, shrinking green-corridors in Asia and three sub-species extinct, experts see "no happy times" for the feline on International Tiger Day on Friday. "There were some 100,000 tigers a century back, now there are around …
Bhopal: Nine months on, Madhya Pradesh forest department is still clueless on reasons behind movement of tigers from Ratapani wildlife sanctuary towards Bhopal instead of Singori and Khiwni sanctuaries. On November 19, 2015, National Green Tribunal (NGT) had raised concerns over possible man-animal conflict as three tigers had strayed into …
Ivorian security forces have driven thousands of cocoa farmers out of a national park this week at the start of an operation to preserve the refuge for endangered chimpanzees and forest elephants, a government source and locals said on Thursday. Mont Peko is one of a few dwindling patches of …
The population of the golden mahseer, a popular freshwater sport and food fish, is going to prosper in the rivers of Himachal Pradesh, with the state fisheries department succeeding in breeding it in captivity for the first time. Besides its rehabilitation and conservation, the breeding technology will turn out to …
The world's largest mammals could go extinct if humans don't do more to protect their ecosystems, according to an international team of conservation scientists. Animals including gorillas, rhinoceroses and bears could be wiped out if challenges such as expanding livestock and crop operations, illegal hunting, deforestation and human population growth …
Research by UCLA biologists published today in the journal Science Advances presents strong evidence that the scientific reason advanced by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to remove the gray wolf from protection under the Endangered Species Act is incorrect. A key justification for protection of the gray wolf under …
