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 …
At a time when wild buffaloes, an endangered mammal species, are facing extinction, the state forest department has joined hands with leading NGOs to keep hopes alive to save the last remaining population. At a three-day workshop on 'Action planning for conservation of wild buffaloes in Central India' in the …
Tiger habitats in the mountain chain of the Western Ghats are shrinking, although forests in the eco-sensitive zone have registered a remarkable rise of wild cats, says an Environment Ministry document. Experts have cited the shrinking habitat in the Western Ghats as a major reason behind the man-animal conflict. According …
The endangered Asiatic wild water buffaloes largely found in Central India are now on the radar of conservationists from across the world. The international and national experts in their four-day meet from Monday in Maharashtra is to draw up an action plan for their protection. According to experts, the global …
Action plans drawn up by 26 states for conservation and welfare of bears was used to draw up a common nation plan which will be released during the 21st international conference on bear research and management in Delhi next month. The animals are under threat from trade of body parts, …
Twenty-one conservation groups sent a letter to the Obama administration today, asking it to withdraw from a recent agreement with the timber industry that, if approved by a federal court, would eliminate protection from 3,887,800 acres of critical habitat for the marbled murrelet until 2018. The federally threatened murrelet — …
The tiger needs more space, the lion a second home. And the government is confused The tourist is invading the tiger's home, taking away his privacy. The lion's quarters are cramped, it could do with a second home. The government, however, dreamt of providing a home to the cheetah, instead. …
The Supreme court today allowed the Centre to notify within a week its fresh guidelines on tiger conservation and indicated that it may modify its July 24 order staying all tourism activities in the reserved areas across the country. A Bench of justices A.K. Patnaik and Swatanter Kumar, however, made …
Viewing poaching with cross-border linkages as a “major problem” to wildlife conservation, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday asked intelligence and enforcement agencies to co-ordinate better to break the nexus between those involved in the illegal activity and their markets. Addressing a meeting of National Board for Wildlife here, Singh …
Humans may be destabilising desert ecosystems across the world, according to a new study. Analysis of the human impact on dryland ecosystems suggests it is "drastically changing" mammal communities. The scientists believe that activities such as overgrazing livestock lie behind increasing local extinctions and a reduction in diversity. The work …
This report provides a reassessment of the human and economic costs of the climate crisis. The reassessment is based on a wealth of the latest research and scientific work on climate change and the carbon economy, research that is assimilated as a part of this report. The main finding of …
A fifth of animals without backbones could be at risk of extinction, say scientists. Almost 80% of the world's species are invertebrates, meaning they lack a spinal column. Reviewing over 12,000 species known to be threatened, biologists found that freshwater ones are most at risk. Researchers urged for comprehensive studies …
With climate change happening, species will be forced to adapt or to move out of the habitats they are accustomed to. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are trying to understand how these species will respond to changing environmental conditions and where they will go. One study published in …
Giving a boost to tiger conservation efforts, the Centre has given in-principle approval for creation of five new tiger reserves in the country. This was stated by Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan in the Rajya Sabha Tuesday. Spelling out the initiatives taken by Government for conservation of the big cats, the …
PANJIM: Goa Government on Wednesday constituted a House Committee led by Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar to look into the issues pertaining to the traditional inhabitants, who have been issued notices by local panchayat for demolition of houses under CRZ rules 2011. The issue was raised on the floor of the …
Plan to pull £25m from conservation schemes could affect corncrakes, rare orchids, peatbogs and flower meadows Scotland faces the loss of some of its most vulnerable bird species and habitats after ministers cut environment spending on farmland by £25m, a senior conservationist has warned. Stuart Housden, the Scottish director of …
The Urban Governance and Infrastructure Improvement Project in Bangladesh responds to the growing need for infrastructure and service delivery for the rapidly increasing urban population in Bangladesh by building the capacity of resource constrained pourashavas (municipalities) to deliver services, and by increasing community participation in decision making and subproject implementation, …
How large does a butterfly have to be before anybody notices it is disappearing? In the case of Papua New Guinea's (PNG) Queen Alexandra's birdwing, the answer is enormous. The world's largest butterfly boasts a 1ft (30cm) wingspan – imagine the width of a school ruler - yet few outsiders …
The lemurs of Madagascar - known for their haunting cries and reflective eyes - are the most endangered primate group on Earth, because they are losing their forest habitat, the International Union for Conservation of Nature said on Friday. Conservationists meeting in Madagascar's capital Antananarivo this week said 91 percent …
Read Environment Impact Assessment of nuclear fuel complex proposed at Rawatbhata, Rajasthan. This project was opposed at the public hearing organized on 11 July 2012 by the Department of Atomic Energy and NPCIL. The Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC), one of the major industrial units of Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), …
This study by the Centre for Development Finance, IFMR & IIT Madras evaluates the design of the eight climate missions as developed by individual ministries using the principles laid out in the National Action Plan on Climate Change. A new study, An Evaluation of India’s National Action Plan on Climate …
