WHO published its World health statistics report 2025, revealing the deeper health impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on loss of lives, longevity and overall health and well-being. In just two years, between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy fell by 1.8 years—the largest drop in recent history— reversing a …
BALASORE: The Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) in Mayurbhanj district, the fourth biggest reserve in India, has lost 40 Royal Bengal tigers in the last five years. It has just 61 tigers at present. This was disclosed by the Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh in the Rajya …
Why India's population will stabilise sooner than expected Sanjeev Sanyal / July 15, 2009, 0:41 IST World Population Day was observed on July 11 and for a brief moment the world remembered an old problem. Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad gave a speech on the need to control population …
Despite having one of the oldest Family Planning programmes in the region, the Pakistan's total fertility rate (TFR) has been witnessed as 4.1 children per woman, while low contraception prevalence rate (CPR) has been observed that lies 30 per cent. Regional differences stresses the need to have area specific strategies …
An attempt has been made in this paper to analyse the relationship between urbanisation and agricultural growth in India. Agriculture is the mainstay of Indian economy because of its high share in employment and livelihood creation notwithstanding its reduced contribution to the nation's gross domestic product.
While population is widely recognized as one of the driving forces behind the growth of greenhouse gas emissions, this paper shows that it is not adequately accounted for in the emissions scenarios produced in the Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The …
New Delhi: The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau and the Tamil Nadu Forest Department, working with Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), on Sunday seized skins of a tiger and a leopard in Dindigul, Tamil Nadu. While one tiger was found dead in Pilibhit and another in Ranthambhore on April 4, a …
Although integrated assessment models (IAM) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) consider population, along with economic growth and technological change, as one of the root causes of greenhouse gas emissions, how population dynamics affect climate change is still under debate. While policy debates around climate change engender lively …
P. Oppili DWINDLING: Loss of habitat and in-breeding are among the reasons cited for a marginal reduction in the population of spotted dear and blackbuck at Guindy National Park in Chennai. CHENNAI: There has been a marginal decrease in the population of blackbuck and spotted deer in 2008 at the …
An international project undertaken the rangers of the Jim Corbett National Park have found an increase in the vulture population. The report assumes significance in view of the growing concern that vultures may soon be extinct. According to P.K. Patro, divisional forest officer in Ramnagar in Uttarakhand, "There is little …
ANAND K. SAHAY India has a dubious record in respect of women. We have had powerful women political leaders, and there are more women in the public sphere than before, but the record of roughly the past one hundred years suggests a
Kaziranga (Assam): Ten tiger deaths in three months, 42 deaths in eight years, yet officials at the Kaziranga National Park, home to one of the largest number of tigers in India, are of the opinion that tiger population here is
The rhino population in a national park at the Himalayan foothills has gone up. Elated officials of the West Bengal forest department are now getting ready to carry out a census in another reserve forest. During a census last November in the Gorumara National Park, located in the Himalayan foothills …
The population of tigers in North-East has come down to 84, while in Assam it dangling between 60-80 number, according to the latest refined all India tiger estimation carried out by National Tiger Conservation Authority. The disclosure by Minister of State for Environment and Forest, S Reghupathy in a Rajya …
Bhopal, Jan 21: It will be a misnomer to call 2004 Tiger census a census as the right word for it would be estimation or enumeration. Later in the year 2006 Wildlife Institute of India (WII) developed new technique and found new method of estimation of tiger population which is …
