Kerala Governor Rajendra Arlekar has approved the portfolio allocation for the new UDF government, led by Chief Minister V. D. Satheesan. S...

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The Bombay High Court has ordered the Maharashtra government to compensate a farmer for parrot damage to his pomegranate trees, classifying...

The Supreme Court has declared rampant illegal sand mining in the National Chambal Gharial Sanctuary an environmental crisis. The court cri...

Delhi had seen one of the worst years in terms of air pollution last year but the city did not file a single case against anyone for violat...

Supreme Court sought details of action taken by states against those who wrongly claimed forest land as traditional forest dwellers under a...

India had reported over 5,800 environment related crimes last year with maximum over 83% of it being recorded for violation of the Forest A...

In his recently launched "Saving Wild India..' the naturalist and conservationist outlines a bold yet considered plan to preserve and prote...

The conference will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in which state environment ministers and officials will brainstorm.

The government is proposing an omnibus law to regulate the environment — incorporating all the acts that govern environment protection, wat...

In blatant violation of forest and wildlife laws, stone quarrying within 1.5km from its boundary poses serious threat to Tipeshwar Wildlife...

About 100 frontline forest staff of Manas National Park will be trained by the Wildlife Trust of India, in association with the Assam fores...

In a bid to make presence of honorary district wildlife wardens more effective, a two-day workshop will be held for them at Sillari in Penc...

Since 2006, the environment ministry has demarcated and declared 39 ‘critical tiger habitats’ — the core of our tiger reserves. Every one o...

West Bengal forest minister Ananta Ray has thrown every wildlife conservation rule out of the window. He feels Bengal has too many leopards...

Wildlife activists and NGOs, like World Wildlife Fund, opposed imposition of the Act's provisions on national parks and sanctuaries.

A plea challenging the constitutional validity of the Forest Rights Act aimed at giving land rights to traditional forest dwellers, has bee...