Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News item published in Newspaper ‘The Hindu’ dated 04.02.2023 titled “19 families shifted after houses in J & K village develop cracks” dated 20/09/2023. The issue relates to the damage caused to 21 structures in Doda district of Chenab Valley …
Hyderabad: While Andhra Pradesh has the second largest slum population in the country after Maharashtra, government surveys show that about 60 per cent of urban slums in the state are located on privately owned land. Interestingly, the National Sample Survey Office report states that half of these slums have been …
One of the most beautiful butterflies in the country, Baronet Euthalia nais, found only in the Nilgala area, particularly in the Gal Oya National Park, is facing a severe threat due to the beedi industry destroying its habitat, says naturalist cum author Rajika Gamage. Beedi (the poor man’s cigarette) makers …
The scale of the elephant poaching epidemic could lead to local populations becoming extinct, an IUCN report says Africa will lose one-fifth of its elephants in the next decade if the continent's poaching crisis is not stopped, data published on Monday shows. There were about 10 million African elephants (Loxodonta …
An Environment Ministry panel has denied permission to state governments to build new roads and widen existing ones in Wildlife Sanctuaries and other Protected Areas, where animals continue to die in road accidents. The report of the panel, noting roads have “detrimental ecological effects on both terrestrial and aquatic natural …
Mouse deer, the smallest ungulate in the country that is on the list of most endangered animals, is being bred in captivity at Nehru Zoological Park with a view to increase its population. No enumeration has been carried out on mouse deer ever in the state but observation over a …
PUNE: Researchers studying the critically endangered Forest Owlet in Madhya Pradesh hope to start a similar project in Maharashtra's Melghat tiger reserve soon. The reserve contains the largest known population of the bird found only in India. Being a protected area, it offers greater safety to the habitat of the …
The State Government has proposed structures like animal underpasses, ecoducts/animal overpass and overpass/flyover in four potential animal corridors of the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) as long-term measures to make the National Park- stretch of the national highway 37 wildlife-friendly. This has been revealed by the proposal submitted by the State …
The Environmental Audit Committee says the Government's biodiversity offsetting proposals could give developers "carte blanche to concrete over important habitats" Government proposals to introduce a system of 'biodiversity offsetting' must be improved to properly protect Britain's wildlife and woodlands, according to the Environmental Audit Committee. In September, the Government set …
Roosting and foraging area for black-necked cranes in Bumthang should be included in conserved areas, a study conducted on fluctuating population of the endangered bird, recommended. The black-necked crane visits in Bhutan every winter and its major habitats are in Phobjikha and Khotakha in Wangduephodrang, Bumdeling in Trashiyangtse and Bumthang. …
BANGALORE: In compliance with the September 27, 2013 direction of the National Green Tribunal (south zone), the environment and forests ministry filed a common counter before the tribunal, agreeing with the contentions in the applications that the Amrut Mahal Kaval grassland in Challakere constitute a critical habitat for the Great …
The Environment Friendly Local Governance Framework 2013 that was approved by the Nepal Cabinet recently is being implemented in all local bodies from the current fiscal year. Read more in this October 2013 edition of the Monthly Nepal State of the Environment Report published by the South Asia Environment Portal. …
A day after the National Green tribunal raised questions over a notification on the Okhla Bird Sanctuary declaring it a protected wildlife habitat, the UP forest department submitted the required papers. The official notification declaring Okhla sanctuary as protected is dated May 18, 1990. On Tuesday, while hearing a matter …
Wildlife experts hail success of UN-backed initiative to protect Asiatic cheetahs from extinction despite sanctions Asiatic cheetahs, a subspecies of the fastest animal on earth, are extinct everywhere except in Iran, where they are considered to be critically endangered. But marking a rare success, conservationists at the Persian wildlife heritage …
It is a fact that climate change manifests itself locally, though the drivers of the change i..e the greenhouse gases are generated globally through anthropogenic activities. In view of the fact that local vulnerabilities due to climate change can be addressed more adequately at local level itself, the state of …
Melbourne made it three years in a row as the world’s most livable city while Dhaka was only saved by Damascus, the war-torn capital of Syria, to be placed at the bottom of the list, according to the 2013 Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) Global Livability Survey. The top cities and …
Nod to submergence of cheer pheasant habitat The Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has directed the government to initiate action against officials responsible for giving nod to the submergence of the habitat of the endangered cheer pheasant in the Kol Dam water and identify 22 habitats for the …
Nepal's number of Royal Bengal tigers in the wild has soared 64 percent to 198 in just four years, according to a government survey released Monday. Experts attributed the rise to a crackdown on poaching as the government vowed to double the number of tigers in the wild by 2022. …
Nepal witnessed a record 63 percent growth in the tiger population in the last four years. A ‘scientific’ census conducted by the government in the last five moths shows the population of the endangered animals in Nepal shoot up from the 121 in 2009 to 198 this year. Experts attribute …
A recent tiger census at two organic roads has confirmed the extinction of striped-tigers in the far-west. The incident came to light after cameras installed in Kanchanpur’s Laljhadi and Kailali’s Basanta organic roads showed no footage of big cats this year. Meanwhile, cheetahs, bears and hyenas were captured in the …
The Narendra Modi government has moved the Supreme Court seeking review of its April 15 judgment directing translocation of a small population of Asiatic lions from their only habitat in Gir forests to Kuno Palpur sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh and proposed a second home for them within Gujarat. Reluctant to …
