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The forest guards in Assam, who faces threats from poachers, were given modern weapons like self-loading rifles (SLRs) and 9 MM pistols to check poaching of rhinos, tigers and other wild animals. The forest guards were given 954 SLRs, 272 Read More …
World environmental conservation body Greenpeace is planning to build world’s largest wildlife reserve in Antarctica. The proposed ‘Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary‘ (originally a concept of EU) would measure 1.8 million square kilometres (1.1 million square miles approx.), making it the largest Read More …
According to the new study published in the journal ‘Current Biology’, more than one lakh (1,00,000) Orangutans have been killed in the jungles of Borneo since 1999. The main culprit behind the killing of endangered species Orangutans is deforestation, driven Read More …
Madhya Pradesh Assembly Speaker Sitasaran Sharma on February 16, 2018, dedicated the first butterfly park of the state at Gopalpur in Raisen district. This park houses 65 species of the colourful insect and nearly 137 plant varieties. As per the Read More …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the second edition ‘World Sustainable Development Summit-2018’ (WSDS) in Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on February 16, 2018 Host: The summit is the flagship forum of ‘The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)’. Participants: Over two thousand Read More …
The Madhya Pradesh government has given an in principle nod to the proposal of National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA0 to translocate six (three pairs) of tigers to Odisha’s Satkosia Tiger Reserve (STR). The six tigers (three male and thre female) Read More …
Various reports on climate change and its effect, have warned that due to global warming, rising sea level would ultimately cause pacific nation Tuvalu to disappear from world map. But truth is that it is actually growing in size. A Read More …
According to the new study published in ‘Nature, Ecology and Evolution’, marbled crayfish (Procambarus virginalis) are multiplying rapidly and invading ecosystems across the world. This ten-legged pests are descended from one single female with a mutation allowing it to reproduce Read More …
A Zoological Survey of India ( ZSI) scientist Anil Mohapatra, along with other scientist have have discovered three new species of Eel along the northern Bay of Bengal coast. Newly discovered eel species, as published in the journal Zootaxa, are: Read More …
Environment Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on 12 February 2018, released the India State of Forest Report 2017 in New Delhi. The India State of Forest Report 2017 is 15th report in the series. Here are the main features of the Read More …
Sehuencas water frog (Telmatobius yuracare) has been looking for the female for the last 10 years in the Cochabamba Natural History Museum in Bolivia. But all efforts to find the female Sehuencas have failed so far. The Global Wildlife Conservation has been trying over Read More …
Scientists have discovered spider-like four creatures with a tail in amber from Myanmar. The scientists described four specimens of the arachnid, called Chimerarachne yingi, that inhabited a Cretaceous Period tropical forest about 100 million years ago during the dinosaur age. The arachnid spider, Read More …
Scheme: The National Adaptation Fund for Climate Change (NAFCC) is a Central Sector Scheme. When: It was set up in the year 2015-16. Aim: The overall aim of NAFCC is to support concrete adaptation activities which mitigate the adverse effects Read More …
The Supreme Court on January 29, 2018, agreed on the Central Government’s proposed plan to end stubble burning in Haryana, Punjab and Western UP. The Supreme court in its order, asked the government to follow the deadline fixed by the Read More …
Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (GRISS) has released the first country wide global list of alien and invasive animals and plant species. The first list, lists 6414 alien species found in 20 countries of the world. These are Read More …