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 …
Enumeration of wild elephants has been carried out in the State like the enumeration of rhinos and tigers. But enumeration of wild elephants is different from that of rhinos and tigers. Rhinos or tigers live in a specific location like Kaziranga NP, Manas NP or Orang NP. But wild elephants …
Wildlife experts on board the apex National Board of Wildlife (NBWL) will clear development projects only over those forestlands which explicitly enjoy a higher level of protection under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 or are mandated for greater safety by the Supreme Court. Projects in forest patches, such as elephant …
Measures to protect the wildlife and biodiversity in general include inter alia, notification of suitable wildlife habitats as Protected Areas (National Parks, sanctuaries etc.) under the Wild Life (protection) Act (WLPA), 1972. Recommendations of the National Board for Wildlife (NBL) are prescribed in the Act for regulating any activity inside …
The State Government (Department of Forest) has sent a proposal to the Ministry of Environment and Forests on allotting 20,000 hectares of forestland to convert it into a tiger sanctuary in Kanyakumari district. However, it is objected to by farmers as well as Kani tribes as the formation of the …
The Fatehabad district administration's announcement to set up a sanctuary for black bucks on the 500 acres reserved for the green belt out of the 1500-odd acres acquired by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) for its Gorakhpur Atomic Power Project (GAPP) is likely to prove a stillborn …
The movement of Asiatic elephants to the famous Deepor Beel Bird Sanctuary has declined as the traditional corridors used by them while coming down from the Rani and Garbhanga Reserve Forests (RFs) to the Deepor Beel have been blocked due to setting up of railway tracks and also construction of …
Poaching of migratory birds continues unabated in Chilika Lake despite warning by wildlife officials against killing of winged guests in Asia’s largest blue lagoon. Stringent anti-poaching law is in force in the lake, home to lakhs of winged guests, and whosoever is found to be violating it will be sternly …
Increasing human pressures and ecosystem changes are posing combined threat to the population of endangered Royal Bengal tigers, in Sundarbans. This has been stressed in an expert study titled ‘Sharing Lessons on Mangrove Restoration’. This has been conducted by the International Union For Conservation of Nature The Sundar-bans cover 10,000 …
To save black bucks from stray dogs and poachers, the authorities in Fatehabad have decided to set up a sanctuary for them at Gorakhpur village in this district with the help of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL). The black buck sanctuary will be set up on 500 acres …
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has been pulled up by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) for "casually" granting environmental clearance for a mining project in reserved forest area in Goa without verifying the information. The NGT bench of Justice V R Kingaonkar and expert member D K …
JAIPUR: In a major boost to tiger conservation, the expert committee has defined the core and buffer zones of the Mukundra sanctuary. An erstwhile royal hunting preserve of the Maharaja of Kota, a thickly forested sanctuary lying along the southeastern border of Kota, would soon see dedicated efforts to create …
After categorically denying that there was mining near Sariska Tiger Reserve and claiming that nearly 40 mining leases were given 20-60 km away from the tiger reserve, the mining department has filed an affidavit before the Supreme Court- appointed panel requesting that the 'no-mining zone' shall be reduced to 100 …
A Supreme Court committee is likely to recommend drastic action against miners in Goa, including severe curbs on production, in a move expected to hit the state’s finances and devastate the country’s scandalplagued iron-ore industry. The Central Empowered Committee (CEC), which is examining allegations of illegal mining in Goa, has …
Miners also asked to explain why contiguous leases have bot been combined though Rule 38 of Mineral Concession rules 1960 The Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) investigating into alleged illegal mining activities has asked mining companies operating in Goa to explain violations of rules, even as miners brace themselves …
PANJIM: Following Goa government decision on 1 km buffer zone for wildlife sanctuaries and national park in Goa, based on CEC report on buffer zones to the Supreme Court, the government has wound-up the committees constituted to identify the eco-sensitive zone for the State. Government through a notification has de-notified …
The environment ministry has opposed the recommendations of the Centrally Empowered Committee (CEC) of the Supreme Court and the amicus curiae's suggestions that the ring of limited-industrialization zone around the 600 plus national parks and sanctuaries be diminished. The ministry has said that the suggestions to reduce and pre-fix the …
It stoutly opposes Gujarat Forest Department proposal to divert land The Standing Committee of the National Board for Wildlife (NBW) has put its foot down against the laying of a road across the Kutch desert sanctuary — the largest breeding ground of flamingos in the entire Indian subcontinent — following …
PANJIM: The Supreme Court’s (SC) Central Empowered Committee (CEC), which was unable to submit its report within the stipulated period to the apex court, has sought additional information from State government over iron ore production, export and sale within the country, for last five years from 2006-2011. The three members …
PANJIM: Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Thursday said that the mining industry in the State should be treated with respect, rather than be looked at as a villain. “Today mining industry stands at the topmost level in the villain category, irrespective of the fact that industry has generated wealth for …
PANJIM: Ministry of Environment and Forests’ (MoEF) affidavit to the Supreme Court recommending 10-km buffer zone around the protected areas has been strongly objected by the mining dependents, who demand that the Central and State governments settle the issue without disturbing their source of livelihood. Goa Mining Peoples’ Front has …
