Counter affidavit by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) in the matter of Pradeep Singh Shekhawat Vs State of Assam & Others dated 30/01/2025. The application complained about the illegal constructions, including the illegal construction of road to Bhuban Hill, within the Barak Bhuban Wildlife Sanctuary located …
Rajkot: Close to seven lakh people who undertook the fiveday annual Parikrama around Mount Girnar in November left the Girnar Wildlife Sanctuary littered with nearly 23,000 kg of plastic waste. This is an alarming fourfold increase in the quantity of plastic waste strewn in the sanctuary compared to 2011. The …
The Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has set February 15 as the last date for state governments to submit site-specific proposals for declaration of eco-sensitive zones around national parks and sanctuaries. As a result, the Gautam Budh Nagar district forest department has begun work on formulating the list …
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has directed the departments concerned to submit detailed reports on declaring eco-sensitive zones around wildlife sanctuaries on a directive of the Supreme Court. Addressing a conference convened here on Thursday to discuss the issue, the Chief Minister said the State government would be able to adopt …
Union Forest Ministry asks States to submit report before February 15 The Forest and Wildlife Department will work on demarcating ecologically sensitive zones around national parks and wildlife sanctuaries in the State as per directions of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF). V. Gopinath, Chief Wildlife Warden, told …
Provides one last opportunity for States to give site-specific proposals A decade after the National Board for Wildlife envisaged declaring areas within 10 km of the boundary of national parks and sanctuaries as eco-sensitive zones, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has given one last opportunity to all …
PANJIM: The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests in its affidavit submitted to the Supreme Court, stated it has no objection to the present petition being heard on merit, sticking to its earlier stand that in case a mining project is located within 10 kms from a wildlife sanctuary or …
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) on Monday told states any commercial activity within 10 km of 650 national parks and wildlife sanctuaries would be discontinued if they failed to notify ecologically sensitive areas by next month. Environment secretary V Rajagopalan, in a letter to state chief secretaries, …
The Madhya Pradesh Government has identified 17 eco-sensitive zones around its wild life sanctuaries and parks, where illegal commercial activities including mining will be prohibited. A site specific proposal identifying eco-sensitive zones around Kanha National Park (Mandla), Pench National Park (Seoni), Bandhavgarh National Park (Umaria), Panna National Park and Kuno …
The environment ministry has set February 15 as the deadline for states to finalize no-go areas for industry around the 600-plus national parks and sanctuaries. If the states fail to meet the deadline, the Centre will impose a 10-km stretch around these zones as eco-sensitive areas, where development projects would …
This Letter by Sanchita Jindal to Executive engineer, Dept of Water Resources, Parwan Project Division, Rajasthan regarding Environment clearance of Parwan major irrigation cum drinking water supply project in Jhalwar district, Rajasthan by Dept. of Water Resources, Rajasthan.
Say they have not been paid compensation Sixteen families relocated from the Kottamkara hamlet inside the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary are planning to reoccupy the deserted place on Saturday in protest against the alleged negligence of the State government in paying them compensation. The families, 11 of them tribal, will stage …
Noida: The Gautam Budh Nagar district forest department has issued notices to many developers for undertaking construction work within a 10km radius of the Okhla Bird Sanctuary without obtaining necessary clearances from the National Board for Wildlife. The forest department has also appealed to buyers not to invest in such …
When you've gotta go, you gotta go.. but not if you are on wildlife safari in Vidarbha's several tiger reserves and sanctuaries. Tourists have often suffered for want of toilets inside forests on safaris that can last four to five hours. Help may soon be at hand. After Nagzira wildlife …
A recent survey of the forest department (wildlife) Pune has found that there are 625 Indian Giant Squirrels, the state animal, in the Bhimashankar wildlife sanctuary, with occupany of about 50 squirrels per sq km area. The number shows that there is a good population and that breeding is taking …
Centre plans to preserve elephant habitats, thereby reducing human-animal conflict Guwahati, Dec. 24: The ministry of environment and forests is working out a process to provide legal status to elephant reserves and corridors, which will help the Northeast most, as it not only has the largest presence of elephant corridors …
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan won accolades from RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat for furthering the right-wing organisation’s cow protection agenda. “It’s time to re-establish the respect gaumata once enjoyed,” Bhagwat said Monday calling cow conservation a symbol of India’s culture. Praising the MP government for ‘doing its duty’ …
Amidst stiff opposition from forest dwelling communities living on the fringes of Sathyamangalam Wildlife Sanctuary, against converting the old Veerappan lair as a tiger reserve, the forest department claimed on Monday that the tiger population was stable and poised for further increase. Sathyamangalam Divisional Forest Officer N Sathish said surveys …
In a turnaround, the state forest department has decided to prepare eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) proposals around protected areas (PAs) as per the 10km norm, deciding on case-by-case basis and depending on site-specific situations and not as per the Supreme Court's centrally empowered committee (CEC) recommendation. In September, the CEC recommended …
Difficult terrains, delays in nods, inhabitations in wildlife sanctuaries major impediments to power supply electricity The government is likely to miserably fall short of its rural electrification target for the current fiscal as most villages that were to be covered under the scheme are located in difficult terrains, making it …
A BSF proposal to divert forest land in wildlife sanctuaries in areas bordering Pakistan is facing stiff resistance from conservationists who feel that road construction in the protected site will destroy the nesting ground of endangered flamingos and wild asses. In its proposal submitted to an Environment Ministry panel, BSF …
