New Delhi, July 7 (IANS) The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has notified the Natural History Museum (NHM), Mizoram University, Aizawl, as a Designated Repository under Section 39 of the Biological Diversity Act, 2002, an official said on Tuesday. With this notification, NHM becomes India’s 21st Designated Repository, further strengthening the country’s biodiversity conservation and scientific infrastructure, the official said in a statement.Designated Repositories constit…
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New Delhi, June 26 (IANS) The National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) has released a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the Notification of Threatened Species, a major step towards strengthening conservation, an official said on Friday. The SOP was issued under Section 38 of the Biological Diversity Act, 2002, to facilitate a uniform, transparent and scientifically robust process for the identification, assessment and notification of threatened species by States and Union Territories, said the…
Mumbai, March 25 (IANS) The inquiry committee report on the Pune land deal involving Parth Pawar, son of former Deputy Chief Minister late Ajit Pawar, stated that should the police investigation reveal the involvement of any other parties, they shall also be held responsible. It is named Parth Pawar, whom Sheetal Tejwani had given a notarised Power of Attorney for government land, terming the act illegal, incorrect, and criminal. Parth Pawar is now a Rajya Sabha MP from the Nationalist Co…
New Delhi, Feb 7 (IANS) As India completed 50 years of tiger conservation, Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav, on Saturday, called for a comprehensive policy review to identify challenges in the present times and ensuring efficiency. Highlighting the Cheetah reintroduction programme, the Union Minister said India has successfully carried out an international translocation of a wild species that had gone extinct in the country, with the project now reaching…