The projects include those for construction of strategic roads, helipads, ammunition depots, and housing for troops and artillery regiments NEW DELHI: National Board for Wildlife (NBWL), an apex body that makes decisions on matters relating to wildlife conservation and habitat protection, has approved 32 defence infrastructure proposals involving the diversion of land from protected areas…
MYSURU/BENGALURU: A tigress and her four cubs were found dead on Thursday in Hoogyam forest range of Karnataka’s Male Mahadeshwara Hills Wildlife Sanctuary, in what officials called the state’s worst single-day tiger death toll at a single location. Preliminary suspicion: poisoning.Forest officials said that the tigress had killed a cow days earlier. Poison is believed…
The air in Dublin carries something far less visible: fragments of DNA. According to a study, genetic material from plants, animals, microbes, and even traces of illicit substances like cannabis and poppy can be found drifting through the city’s atmosphere.This discovery highlights the growing potential of environmental DNA (eDNA) – genetic material collected not from…
“Follow me,” Nando said. “I know where it lives.” It was late morning, hot, humid and quiet. Shafts of sunlight cut through the jungle as we followed a path through the latticed shade. A few hundred yards away, gigantic cargo ships stacked with containers chugged along the Panama Canal. But that was another world. Where…
Demand for pangolins in Asia, where populations of these scaly mammals have dwindled, has driven traffickers to Africa, the only other continent where the increasingly endangered animals can be found. Nigeria has become a hub for pangolin trafficking and other illegal trading of wildlife. But authorities have been cracking down, recently arresting a Chinese national…
PM Modi releases first-ever riverine dolphin estimation report in country, which estimated a total of 6,327 dolphins (Picture credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: India has a total of 6,327 river dolphins with Uttar Pradesh reporting the highest number at 2,397 followed by Bihar (2,220), West Bengal (815), Assam (635) and Jharkhand (162). This is according to…
ED Raid In Odisha: प्रवर्तन निदेशालय (ED) ने 28 फरवरी 2025 को ओडिशा के कालाहांडी जिले के जयपटना रेंज और कालाहांडी साउथ डिवीजन में वन विभाग के अधिकारियों के ठिकानों पर छापेमारी की. फाइनेंशियल इंटेलिजेंस यूनिट (FIU-IND) से मिली ऑपरेशनल एनालिसिस रिपोर्ट और शुरुआती जांच के आधार पर ED ने यह कार्रवाई की. जांच में…
थालास्सेरी के आर्कबिशप जोसेफ पैम्पलेनी ने बुधवार (26 फरवरी, 2025) को कहा कि मौजूदा वन एवं वन्यजीव कानूनों का उद्देश्य जंगली जानवरों के हितों की रक्षा करना है, न कि राज्य के ऊंचे क्षेत्रों में रहने वाले आदिवासियों और किसानों के जीवन और आजीविका की रक्षा करना. आर्कबिशप ने यह टिप्पणी उत्तरी केरल के इस…