Ranchi, March 26 (IANS) The Jharkhand High Court on Thursday pulled up the state government as well as the Forest Department regarding the lax attitude toward the conservation of tigers at the Palamu Tiger Reserve. Hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL), a division bench of Chief Justice M.S. Sonak and Justice Rajesh Shankar expressed deep displeasure over the fact that, despite clear prior orders, the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) failed to file an affidavit personally; inst…
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Hyderabad, March 13 (IANS) After a long legal battle, the Telangana government has declared Gurramguda forest area in the Amangal division in Rangareddy district as a reserve forest, a senior official said on Friday.The state government has issued a Government Order (GO) notifying 424 acres and 31 guntas of forest land as Reserve Forest under Section 15 of the Telangana Forest Act, 1967.According to a statement issued by Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Dr. C. Suvarna, the government issu…
Kolkata, Jan 24 (IANS) The National Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) has started conducting random RT-PCR (Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction) tests among the bats at the Zoological Garden at Alipore in south Kolkata to check whether these animals are carriers of Nipah virus.It was learnt on Saturday that a team from NIMR collected blood and swab samples from the bats at the zoo on Thursday and Friday mornings. The team collected the samples and left at the break of dawn.To trac…
Gandhinagar, Jan 21 (IANS) The 26th meeting of the State Wildlife Board was held in Gandhinagar under the chairmanship of Bhupendra Patel, with key discussions centred on wildlife conservation, habitat protection and eco-tourism management in Gujarat’s protected forest areas. The meeting was attended by Forest and Environment Minister Arjun Modhwadia and Minister of State for Forests Pravin Mali.Officials informed the board that the Jessore Sloth Bear Sanctuary has been included in the Nationa…
New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday came down heavily on the Uttarakhand government and its officials over large-scale encroachment of forest land by private entities.As it registered a suo motu (on its own motion) case, a bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi observed that the authorities had remained “mute spectators” while forest land was being illegally grabbed.The apex court remarked that it was “shocking” to find protected…