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 …
The Bill aims at preventing environment pollution The State Cabinet on Thursday decided to recommend to Governor H R Bhardwaj to promulgate an ordinance for the regulation of stone-crushing in the State. Briefing reporters, Higher Education Minister V S Acharya said the High Court had directed the Government to bring …
Kollam has become the first City Corporation in the State to finish the preliminary work including surveying and mapping of slums in the run-up to the rollout of the Rs 350-crore Rajiv Awaz Yojna (RAY) scheme. Based on the socio-economic survey which will be completed fully by August 15, the …
The human-elephant conflict has intensified as a result of rapidly declining forest cover in Nachchaduwa and Thuruwila. As revealed, the forest cover which was spreading over 3000 acres has now shrunk to 100 acres due to uncontrolled human activities. This was revealed at a press conference held with Agrarian and …
The gopher tortoise deserves protection in several states in the U.S. Southeast under the Endangered Species Act, but funding shortages could delay the listing for years, federal wildlife officials said on Tuesday. There is sufficient scientific data to list the gopher tortoise as threatened in parts of Alabama, Georgia, Florida …
The Bombay high court on Thursday barred the committee appointed by the state from probingallegations of instances of forgery made by social activist Medha Patkar against the redevelopment scheme at Golibar Road, Khar, from taking action till June 16. The court has also directed the state to reconstitute the committee …
At a time when civil society groups are playing an adversarial role in relation to the Union government, those civil society members who have been given an institutional role in the government have become pro-active: in the last few days, the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) has written three …
In a worrying development, nearly 30 bird species from Maharashtra find a place on the endangered list prepared by the International Union for Conservation of Nature(IUCN). According to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or RedData List), a totalof 144bird speciesfrom India …
The decision to evict 445 families from the slum area in Sandhakuda here without any rehabilitation proposal for construction of sea surge protection wall and laying of pipeline for the oil refinery project of IOC has triggered tension in the area. Sources said the State Government had given 266 acres …
AHMEDABAD: Of the total 1,160 leopards in the state, 207 are staying outside jungles, close to people. What`s more, this number is constantly going up. The recently concluded census found that this number of leopards shifting out of the jungle has risen by more than 40 per cent since the …
A projected spate of extinctions of animals and plants this century may be less drastic than feared because the most widely used scientific method can exaggerate losses by more than 160 percent, a study said on Wednesday. "Extinctions caused by habitat loss require greater loss of habitat than previously thought," …
Conservationists predict massive extinctions as a result of habitat loss. Habitat loss undoubtedly does drive extinctions, but dealing with an unmet assumption that underlies these predictions yields much lower estimates.
Extinction from habitat loss is the signature conservation problem of the twenty-first century. Despite its importance, estimating extinction rates is still highly uncertain because no proven direct methods or reliable data exist for verifying extinctions. The most widely used indirect method is to estimate extinction rates by reversing the species–area …
PANJIM, The Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF), in its revised guidelines for the declaration of Critical Wildlife Habitats (CWH), has given importance to ‘gram sabhas’ by making it mandatory to seek their consent in certain matters. The guidelines which are posted on MoEF website on Thursday, stated that …
JAIPUR: Pink City is slowly but surely turning into a death trap for birds as they become lost and unwanted in the concrete jungle. With their natural habitats trees being cut down for development of the city, the birds are finding it increasingly difficult to find a nesting place. Also, …
Agartala, Concerned over the frequent influx of wild elephants in the human habitats in search of food, Forest Department in Tripura has started work to establish two elephant reserves in the state.
Thiruvananthapuram: The Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) has awarded a Gold certificate under the LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) rating system for the Technopark Phase-III building under construction. This is the first time that a facility of Technopark is being awarded a green building certificate, its authorities say.
ALWAR/JAIPUR: Despite the fate of the Cheetah project in the Shahgarh Bulge in Jaisalmer uncertain, the state can still hope to be a home for the cheetah. And this time, the animal could come to the grasslands near Rawatbhata in Hadauti. Union minister of forest and environment Jairam Ramesh assured …
India’s maiden planned hill city that made news for bending rules and undertaking unauthorised construction may get the Centre’s nod, after all. The buzz is the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) may give conditional clearance to Lavasa, which is being developed in the Western Ghats, 65 km from …
If you trek deep into the Athirappilly-Vazhachal forests in the Southern Western Ghats, chances are that you may hear, from up in the canopy of trees, a heavy whooshing sound
The Mumbai board of the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (Mhada) has, for the first time, made a budgetary provision of Rs 100 crore solely for redeveloping its colonies. The Mumbai board announced this decision while unveiling its budget on Friday. The board intends to construct 3,458 flats in …
