Order of the Madras High Court regarding relocation of Thengumarahada village in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu. The court said that the guidelines for preparation of the Tiger Conservation Plan itself mandates relocation of human settlements affecting the core area of tiger reserves. The Supreme Court in Ajay Dubey …
Even as environment and forest minister Anil Dave informed the Lok Sabha on Tuesday that Madhya Pradesh government had not sought 'immediate' transfer of Asiatic lions from Gujarat to Kuno-Palpur sanctuary, official records show exactly the opposite. Earlier in May, Ravi Srivastava, former Principal Chief Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife) …
DEHRADUN: The jumbos will patrol the porous southern side of the tiger reserve which is connected to Uttar Pradesh. Disclosing details, Corbett officials said that the Central Zoo Authority and the environment ministry have already given permission for the move. Karnataka has trained these elephants which were once embroiled in …
LIWONDE NATIONAL PARK, MALAWI – Half a dozen African elephants lay strewn on a riverside plain in Malawi, immobilized by darts fired from a helicopter in a massive project to move 500 elephants, by truck and crane, to a sanctuary for the threatened species. As development squeezes Africa’s wildlife areas, …
African Parks, in collaboration with the Department of National Parks and Wildlife, are helping to preserve this threatened species by moving 500 elephants in one of the biggest events ever to happen to Malawi’s wildlife Tourism. Populations of African elephants are being depleted at concerning rates, with fewer than 450,000 …
Wildlife experts in Malawi will next month start moving up to 500 elephants to a sanctuary that they hope could eventually serve as a reservoir to restore some elephant populations in other parts of Africa where the threatened species has been heavily poached. The massive relocation, slated for completion next …
BEIJING - The number of people living in poverty in rural areas was reduced by 66.63 million from 2012 to 2015, said a government report released on Tuesday. China formulated the 12th Five-year Plan for Poverty Reduction Village By Village. By 2015, poverty alleviation projects covering 30,000 villages had been …
The scientists of Wildlife Institute of India (WII) , SA Hussain and Ruchi Badola have been assigned the task to provide second home to 110 Sangai , brow-antlered and one of the most endangered species under Centre's Endangered Species Recovery Project. Once distributed throughout much of Southeast Asia extending from …
Jaipur: A review petition was on Friday filed in the Rajasthan High Court seeking a revision of its earlier judgement giving the green signal to the shifting of the tiger Ustad (T-24) from Ranthambore National Park to Sajjangarh Biological Park in Udaipur in the light of the new facts. The …
WWF, the world’s largest conservation organisation, has been accused by leading tribal defence group Survival International of inadvertently facilitating serious human rights abuses against pygmy groups living in Cameroonian rainforests. In a 228-page formal complaint to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, (OECD), Survival alleges that anti-poaching eco-guards who …
The government has once again sounded out a stern warning against tanneries in Hazaribagh, saying the polluting factories will be shut down if they fail to relocate to the designated industrial park in Savar within 72 hours. Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu issued the instruction at a meeting with the …
Nagpur: The forest department has issued a fresh order regarding shifting of Maharajbagh tigers to the newly-inaugurated Gorewada rescue centre. The revised order, which was issued by principal chief conservator of forests (wildlife) Shree Bhagwan on Thursday, states that the disabled male tiger 'Sahebrao' and one tigress from the zoo …
The latest Cooum river restoration project in Chennai aims to focus on slum eviction as an achievable first step. A 19-kilometre elevated expressway on the river is also planned. Together estimated to displace over 18,000 families from the banks of the Cooum, these two projects testify to how waterfront development, …
For generations, Chen Jiafen’s family lived in the shadow of a 4,700-year-old ginkgo tree in southwest China’s Guizhou Province. But they and their neighbors had to move in 2011 to make room for the 50-meter tree whose vast roots were undermining nearby buildings. Despite now living about a kilometer away, …
A town in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales has vowed to continue fighting the battle against the expansion of a Rio Tinto coalmine. The village of Bulga lost its fight on Friday with the government’s planning and assessment commission, which approved the expansion of Mount Thorley-Warkworth open-cut mine. …
A recent study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) India Program on human-leopard interactions in India calls for a shift in management focus, from current reactive practices such as removal and translocation of leopards, to proactive measures that ensure safety of human lives, livelihoods, their property, enhance people’s acceptance of …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Saloni Singh & Others Vs. Union of India & Others dated 07/10/2015 regarding dumping of waste on railway tracks. NGT directs Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board take as top priority the proposal of shifting the jhuggies …
State government of Australia's Victoria has begun the largest cull and relocation of koalas in an attempt to save the species from sickness and starvation in the state's Cape Otway region. Koala populations in the region have skyrocketed and are unsustainable, prompting wildlife officers to euthanize starving and sick koalas, …
Conflicts between humans and non-human primates are recognized as major issues in conservation of primates. Crop damage caused by primates is one of the most wide spread and common examples of human-nonhuman primate conflicts in areas where local people are mainly subsistence farmers. Various forms of human-wildlife conflicts occur with …
SHINENGENE, Zambia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The women sat quietly in a village church in northwest Zambia, the sun slanting down on their colorful Sunday outfits as they told how life had changed since their chief sold a tract of land to a foreign firm for a new copper mine, …
JAIPUR: There is hope for an inviolate space for the tigers of Sariska Tiger Reserve STR that had lost all its tigers in 2004. Under the 'Project Tiger' of Union ministry of environment and forests, village re-location in STR seems to be back on track after a span of nearly …
