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 …
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 …
Protected areas attract human settlements? globally, creating protected areas (pas) has been a preferred method of biodiversity conservation. Such areas with their mandate of providing refuge to wildlife are usually assumed to have negative impact on local communities since their access to natural resources is restricted. But a study from …
GDP does not calculate the wealth of ecosystems and biodiversity Human well-being is completely dependent on the smooth flow of ecosystem services, such as food, fibres, clean water, healthy soil and carbon capture. They are public goods, but with no market and no prices, and hence are rarely detected by …
The tiger cannot be preserved if we ignore the incentives to kill it Even as a tentative beginning is made in Sariska, tiger parts seized in Gurgaon are a reminder of the dire threat that continues to stalk India's dwindling tiger population. This is the biggest seizure so far for …
Protected areas (PAs) have long been criticized as creations of and for an elite few, where associated costs, but few benefits, are borne by marginalized rural communities. Contrary to predictions of this argument, the researchers found that average human population growth rates on the borders of 306 PAs in 45 …
