The Union government has responded positively today to Trinamul Congress MP June Maliah, who raised serious concerns in Parliament over the twin threats to India’s wildlife: rampant poaching and large-scale destruction of forest habitats
Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav has emphasized the importance of supportive policies such as the ban on single-use plastics in achieving sustainable environmental goals.
The forest department launched a comprehensive rhino census at Jaldapara National Park this morning, aiming to assess the population of the endangered one-horned rhinoceros.
A leopard had entered Patlakhawa village, under Cooch Behar block II on Tuesday, causing panic among locals. The big cat, reportedly hunting for goats, was chased away by the villagers.
The Uttarakhand government has been claiming that it was able to free more than 5,000 acres of its land from encroachments even as the forest department claimed that more than 2,400 hectares of its land was encroached in the last six years.
With snakebites attributing for 40 per cent of Odisha’s total deaths, State Government has came up with a set of…
Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), an apex body constituted by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) to combat the organised wildlife crime and illegal wildlife trade, issued a red alert to all Tiger reserves and tiger bearing areas to intensify the patrolling and sanitise all above areas from hunting gangs on July 29, 2023.
Two Greek air force pilots died after a plane crashed while battling forest fires on the island of Evia on Tuesday, reported Al Jazeera.
Three persons were arrested for allegedly smuggling a pangolin in the Kanker district of Chhattisgarh, forest officials said on Thursday.
The bottom ranked states in terms of environmental performance are Rajasthan, Nagaland and Bihar.
