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Odisha's tiger population rises to 30: CM Naveen PatnaikOdisha's tiger population rose to 30, including 8 cubs. Similipal Tiger Reserve is now home to 27 tigers, with 13 being pseudo-melanistic. ...
Ensure there is no new encroachment: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma to Forest departmentSarma interacted with the Divisional Forest Officers (DFO) of Territorial Divisions of Assam Forest Department and discussed various issues...
Mayday calls from the wild: Why Assam needs to revive elephant habitatsTo minimize incidents of human-elephant conflicts, the state needs concerted efforts to create sustainable solutions. They include reviving...
Science-based management essential to achieve St Petersburg goal of doubling the number of tigers by 2022India is among the tiger range countries that have registered an increase in the number of tigers in the wild. For this increase in populat...
Tata Trusts offers Brick Eagle grant for designing affordable housing project near MumbaiThe grant for the Karjat project is for extensive research on customer needs, industry best practices and and sustainable construction tech...
Brick Eagle Foundation gets grant from Tata Trusts for affordable housing pilotBrick Eagle Foundation will be led by Shivani Manaktala, director, who has two decades of experience in the social sector and in building c...
NASA turns to students to design 3D printed expandable objectsThe challenge asks students to design an object that can be printed within the bounds of the new 3D printer on the space station, but can b...
India too in global effort to save snow leopard habitatThanks to camera trap imagery, Uttarakhand has been able to capture images of snow leopards in the higher reaches of Nanda Devi Biosphere, ...
TERI holds meeting with Arunachal officials for updatesEnlisting the pollution of water sources and need for drinkingwater PHED commissioner Tajom Taloh sought sustainable projects to tackle pro...
- Changing Deccan Plateau landscape discussed at workshop
A workshop to discuss the changing Deccan Plateau landscape was organised by BNHS at Solapur on the occasion of World Wildlife Day.
- Workshop highlights conservation issues on Deccan Plateau
As a part of its ongoing study of the grassland ecosystem, BNHS recently organized a two-day workshop on “Conservation of wildlife in Decca...
Gibbon 'family' translocated to Arunachal PradeshThe seventh of the 20 gibbon 'families' in Dello village in Arunachal Pradesh have been captured and translocated safely to nearby Mehao Wi...
Tiger census in Sahyadri forests to be held in JanThe forest department will conduct a tiger census in the forests Kolhapur, Sangli, Satara, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg tentatively from Januar...
Country lost 50 tigers in six months, 5 in Madhya PradeshEven as India is striving hard to save the big cats, the country has lost fifty tigers so far this year against 72 tiger deaths in 2012.
- Govt approves 92.34 sq km Koka sanctuary in Bhandara
Giving a big boost to vanishing tigers, the state government on Thursday approved the Koka Wildlife Sanctuary, 20km from Bhandara.
- Jharkhand awarded for bear population management
Jharkhand was one of the five states in the country which has been awarded the 'Bear freedom Award' 2012.
Crocodiles score in diverse Sunderbans deltaAccording to Pradeep Vyas, director of Sunderbans Biosphere Reserve, a good sub-adult or juvenile population in Ramganga range proves that ...