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 …
There are over 0.3 million rhesus monkeys in Northern India. Approximately 48.5% of these are living in human habitation areas. The inordinate growth in populations of such monkeys in recent years has led to an unhealthy competition for space and food between man and monkey.
While the State Government claims to be working on conservation of environment, planned development and boosting tourism in Uttarakhand, the number of slum settlements across the State present a picture that contradicts official claims with more than 500 slums being listed across the State. While Mussoorie is touted as the …
Industry minister, Miao Wei, says local government and companies involved would have to subsidise plans made to help improve pollution levels Local governments in China have submitted plans to relocate or upgrade almost 1,000 chemical plants in the wake of the massive explosions in Tianjin earlier this month that killed …
China's capital Beijing will relocate more of its polluting industries into the already smog-hit neighboring province of Hebei as part of a plan to integrate the regions by the end of the next decade, the government said. China is hoping to break down administrative barriers between Beijing, Hebei and the …
AHMEDABAD: BJP-ruled Rajasthan government is likely to come to Gujarat's rescue over the issue of lion translocation from Gir to Kuno Palpur in Madhya Pradesh. The neighbouring state that had offered no opinion on the issue so far is planning to oppose the translocation citing conflict threat between lions and …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Shatrudhan Rajpurohit & Others Vs. State of Rajasthan & Others dated 07/08/2015 regarding industrial pollution at Rajasthan State Industrial Development and Investment Corporation (RICCO) industrial complex, Rajathan.
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of RIICO Paryavaran Industrial Area, Kota Vs. State of Rajasthan & Others dated 04/08/2015 regarding management of fly ash generated by three Thermal Power Stations at Kota, Jhalawar and Baran. Deepesh Joshi, Counsel appearing for the Applicant …
Is the Centre under NDA dispensation preparing to change its long-held position that Asiatic lions need a second home outside Gujarat's Gir sanctuary, and instead tilting towards the view of the state government which has steadfastly opposed the idea? Sources in the ministry of environment and forests said the Union …
Chinese authorities initiated a grade IV emergency response for torrential rain and floods in Anhui and Fujian provinces on Monday. The Ministry of Civil Affairs and the China National Commission for Disaster Reduction sent work teams to assist relief efforts in the two provinces, where storms have brought floods and …
The Arctic is warming at a rate almost twice the global average, making climate change’s effects there far more intense and rapid than any other ecosystem in the world. While nature photographs of polar bears and melting ice dominate media narratives, the top of the world is home to 4m …
BHOPAL: Surprise flood killing eight Asiatic lions in Gujarat has rekindled hopes for Madhya Pradesh government, which has been trying since long to get a pride of big cats translocated to Kuno-palpur sanctuary in Sheopur district. "Since a natural disaster has left eight lions dead and several missing, Gujarat cannot …
Harare, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe loaded five black rhinos onto a plane bound for Botswana on Wednesday, its first such exports since the 1990s, as part of conservation efforts amid an increase in poaching in southern Africa. The animals were secured in crates loaded onto a camouflaged Botswana Defence Force plane …
Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said on Monday it has so far translocated 14 black rhinos from two national parks to boost populations of the iconic species. KWS deputy spokesman Paul Muya said four rhinos were translocated from Nakuru and 10 others from Lewa National Parks to a sanctuary within the …
The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered status quo on shifting of a “man-eater” tiger known as T24 or Ustaad, from the Ranthambhore National Park in Rajasthan to a zoo. The tiger, which had reportedly mauled a security guard to death earlier this month, is being sought to be shifted from …
Ranthambore hoteliers, scared that the park's most-watched tiger may scare away guests, used their clout to have T24 relocated to Udaipur zoo, and kept the operation so secretive that even forest minister Raj Kumar Rinwa was kept in the dark, sources told TOI on Monday . T24 was shifted on …
The shifting of Ranthambore tiger T-24 has changed territorial equations in the reserve. A day after the dominant male tiger was moved to a biological park in Udaipur, wildlife experts expressed concerns over the safety of two cubs fathered by it. They feel the vacuum created by the relocation will …
The king of the jungle has doubled his kingdom in Gujarat over the past five years. From 10,500 sq km in the 2010 census, the big cats have widened their abode to 22,000 sq km in Saurashtra region as per preliminary reports of the lion census of 2015. The number …
The recent cases of leopards attacking small children in Junnar taluka of Pune once again brings to light the problem of man-animal conflict. Experts point out that such incidents have historically occurred during the sugarcane cutting season when the paths of humans and leopards invariably cross. Due to the presence …
GULARIYA, APR 08 - In a bid to combat rampant poaching, Banke National Park (BNP), which is located in the mid-western region, has proposed to relocate a human settlement near Banke and Bardiya National Parks. The BNP, where tiger population is reportedly decreasing, has proposed to relocate the Khote village …
Nineteen black rhino were recently released at an undisclosed location in South Africa to create a new breeding population of the critically endangered animals. The animals form the 10th population to be facilitated through WWF South Africa's Black Rhino Range Expansion Project and were made available through the Eastern Cape …
