Wildlife meets warfare: Great Indian Bustard chicks named after military iconsThe Wildlife Institute of India has named five Great Indian Bustard chicks after key figures and elements of Operation Sindoor, a recent In...
Amara Raja inks licensing pact with GIB EnergyX for Li-ion cells technologyAmara Raja Advanced Cell Technologies Pvt Ltd signed a licensing agreement with GIB EnergyX Slovakia s.r.o. for Gotion's 'LFP technology' f...
Power companies must consider underground laying of cables to avoid Great Indian Bustard deaths: GovernmentNoting that a miniscule population of less than 150 Great Indian Bustards was left in the country, a committee constituted on the direction...
To protect Great Indian Bustard, Environment Ministry to declare their habitats as conservation reservesDuring a meeting held by a committee under the ministry, constituted in pursuance to the directions of the National Green Tribunal, it was ...
Great Indian Bustard nearing extinction due to high voltage power lines: Environment ministryOnly 150 Great Indian Bustard are left, with the maximum number in Jaisalmer. They are dying at the rate of 15 per cent annually due to col...
In 1 year, Great Indian Bustard population falls from 44 to just 13 in RajasthanEdited Rachnasingh@timesgroup.This might sound like a clarion call.
Efforts to save GIB will be made upto international level: Rajasthan govtChief Minister, Vasundhara Raje has said that her government was serious about saving the state bird Great Indian Butard (GIB) from extinct...
Green Bank to invest in projects in India, South AfricaThe pilot project will involve British Pound 200 mn of investments, it said, adding the proposal would be in addition to allocation of 3.8 ...
Great Indian Bustard declared 'critically endangered'In its Red List of 2013 announced recently by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Great Indian Bustard (GIB) has...
- No Great India Bustard sighted in Nagpur division
The Nagpur division drew a blank during the annual estimation exercise for critically endangered Great India Bustard (GIB) conducted for th...
- Great Indian Bustard egg hatches under protective watch
After a gap of nearly six years, a Great Indian Bustard egg hatched in Desert National Park area with forest officials succeeding in protec...
GIB conservation plan caught in red-tapismThe state bird conservation plan is caught up in bureaucratic red-tapism.
New Great Indian Bustard habitat found in Jaisalmer, conservation hopes soarA flock of 24 GIBs was recently spotted in the grasslands of Salkha area, 45 km from Jaisalmer district. Of them, 21 were males and three f...
Three GIB hunters nabbed in SriganganagarA team of forest officials on Thursday arrested three members of a poaching gang active in hunting the Great Indian Bustard (GIB) in Sriang...
- Action plan for conservation of Great Indian Bustard gets Rajasthan chief minister's nod
The state action plan to prevent the dwindling population of the state bird, Great Indian Bustard, has finally got the stamp of approval an...
Great Indian bustard poachers still at large despite being identifiedIronically, the incident comes at a time when the state forest department has been preparing an exhaustive plan for conservation of Great I...
Government urged to implement 'Project Bustard' to save grassland bird from extinctionExperts believe the bird has already disappeared from more than 90% of its former range and the remaining few are found in small population...