In 2019, the illegal wildlife trade reached staggering levels. Pangolin scales and ivory were being trafficked in massive quantities from Africa to Asia, exposing a network of crime syndicates operating at an industrial scale. The sheer volume of these shipments marked a disturbing milestone, one that revealed the global reach …
Panaji: Sand mining which has been banned for the last two years in the state is likely to start next month. Chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar said that the order renewing licences for sand mining will be issued on Friday wherein 88-90 licences will be renewed in the first phase. Only …
Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Uma Bharti on Tuesday urged the environment ministry to check the ongoing unauthorised mining activities on river Ganga in Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor district. In the letter sent to union Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate change Prakash Javadekar, Bharti urged …
Investigations by the sleuths of the Forest Department into the recent spate of cases of wildlife trafficking have revealed that the State capital is increasingly being seen as a hub of such illegal activities. There have been as many as 14 cases relating to such wildlife offences in the city …
Reiterating that Environmental Clearance is needed for grant of lease/permit for quarrying and mining, the Kerala High Court on Wednesday observed that environmental protection cannot be sacrificed in the name of development. A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Ashok Bhushan and Justice A M Shaffique held that it was the …
PANJIM: In a joint operation on Tuesday night and Wednesday two boats involved in illegal sand extraction in River Chapora were seized and 14 labourers arrested by police. The joint operation was conducted by Directorate of Mines and Geology and Captain of Ports (CoP) with the assistance of coastal police, …
NEW DELHI: An NGO on Wednesday moved the National Green Tribunal against the rampant illegal sand mining being carried out in Jalaun and Hamirpur districts of Uttar Pradesh, prompting the National Green Tribunal to direct authorities to immediately stop these activities. A bench headed by Justice U D Salvi issued …
Order of the Delhi District Court in the matter of Arif Qureshi vs Wild Life Inspector dated 01/10/2015 regarding recovery of shahtoosh shawls from a shop in Delhi. This appeal is directed against judgment dated 02.06.2015 of Ld ACMM (Spl. Acts), Central, Tis Hazari vide which appellant/accused was held guilty …
Since the middle of the 20th century, the Tibetan antelope (Pantholops hodgsonii) has been poached for its wool to make luxury shawls, shahtoosh. This direct overexploitation caused a drastic decline in their population, with a loss of more than 90% compared to the baseline population a few decades ago. Assuming …
The Punjab Government has come out with a monitoring plan for preventing illegal mining and illicit excavation of minor minerals in the state. The detailed plan is yet to be approved by the Cabinet. Information to this effect was furnished before a Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High …
The renewal of 88 iron ore mining leases by the Goa government in 2015 is illegal and a violation of a Supreme Court order which cancelled all leases in 2014, a green NGO has said. In a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed with the apex court, the NGO has also …
Wildlife poaching in Africa has become an issue of major concern with increasing numbers of animals being hunted and killed, even in wildlife conservation areas. Various animals, such as elephants and rhinos are being hunted and killed for their ivory mostly. According to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) reports, …
Publicly shaming areas that have high illegal deforestation rates has successfully reduced Amazon forest loss by 26 percent per years, according to a recent study. Areas that exceed deforestation limits find themselves on "blacklists," which have been regularly published by Brazil's public authorities since 2008. The Tarim basin in China …
Peru will confront the deforestation of its Amazon region by issuing a decree next month putting palm oil plantations under federal rather than local authority, Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidal said on Sunday. With big areas of Peru already stripped of natural vegetation, largely due to farming, Pulgar-Vidal said it was …
There have been 33 fires and cases of deforestation, illegal logging, and encroachment in Phu Quoc island this year involving an area of 278,628sq.m. Deforestation and encroachment are rampant especially in Duong To and Ham Ninh communes and An Thoi town. According to the local Forest Protection Sub-department, in 2009-14 …
Unemployed and bored, Collet Ngobeni and Felicia Mogakane both jumped at the chance when asked if they wanted to join South Africa's first all-female anti-poaching team. Ngobeni, 30, and Mogakane, 27, were two of the original members of the 24-strong Black Mambas, a group set up in 2013 to protect …
US has offered to help India in the country's efforts to track and protect Bengal tigers, as the two countries seek to strengthen collaboration in wildlife conservation and combating wildlife trafficking. The two sides have finalised the text of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in this direction. Details of the …
After the expose of the recent corruption scandal in the state mining department, different organizations including the truck unions are standing up against the illegal mafia groups in Ajmer. So where the mafia of illegal quartz and feldspar mining has been active for the last 15 years, the mafia for …
A new report has debunked the argument that the illegal wildlife trade in East Africa significantly funds terrorism - an exaggeration used to justify the militarization of anti-poaching squads and the persecution of tribal subsistence hunters. The report titled "An Illusion of Complicity: Terrorism and the Illegal Ivory Trade in …
A full bench of the High Court in Pretoria on Wednesday reserved judgment in a bid by two rhino breeders to set aside the government's moratorium on rhino horn trading. John Hume has blamed the sharp increase in rhino poaching on the ban, which came into effect early in 2009. …
The Central Highlands province of Dak Nong has lost 26,000 hectares of forest in the last five years due to a management breach by state forestry companies that had been assigned by the government to protect the area. The shocking number was unveiled in a report by Lao Dong (Labour) …
