Category: Environment

Greening and Restoration of Wasteland with Agroforestry (GROW) report and portal was launched by NITI Aayog. Agroforestry

The Global Alliance on Circular Economy and Resource Efficiency (GACERE) is an alliance of governments at the global level willing to work together on and advocate for a global just circular economy transition and more sustainable management of natural resources Read More …

The International Resource Panel (IRP) was launched by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 2007 to build and share the knowledge needed to improve our use of resources worldwide.

Cameroon in central Africa has adopted the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing. The Nagoya Protocol is an international agreement that aims to ensure that the benefits of using genetic resources and traditional knowledge are shared in a fair Read More …

According to the Government of India, the Wildlife Institute of India and the Zoological Survey of India have been carrying out assessment of the black-necked cranes.

Researchers have come up with detailed estimates of ammonia emissions from rice, wheat and maize crops. Key points

Dusted Apollo (Parnassius stenosemus) has been sighted and photographed for the first time in Himachal Pradesh. The butterfly was sighted and photographed in September 2023, during a trek to Manimahesh Lake in Chamba by the forest guards. Key points

The Supreme Court on 28 January 2024 issued a slew of directions, including regular audit of environmental bodies performance towards proper institutionalisation of environmental regulatory bodies and authorities.

Five more Indian wetlands have been added to the global list of wetlands of international importance under the Ramsar Convention, taking the total number of such highly recognised waterlogged ecosystems in the country to 80. Ramsar Convention

The biodiverse forests of Western Ghats have thrown up yet another marvel of evolution – a new species of tiny lizards, which researchers have described as a “diminutive dragon.”

Laughing gull, a migratory bird from North America, has been sighted for the first time in the country at the Chittari estuary in Kasaragod district (Kerala).

Union Minister of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change released the report on the Status of Snow leopards in India during the National Board for Wildlife meeting held in New Delhi on Januaury 30. 718 snow leopards in the wild Snow Read More …

The tableau of Arunachal Pradesh on the Bugun community reserve, themed ‘Viksit Bharat’, participated in the 75th Republic Day celebration at Kartavya Path in New Delhi on 26 January, 2024.

Odisha government has decided to set up a black tiger safari (an exclusive Melanistic Tiger Safari), the first of its kind in the world, near the Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) in Mayurbhanj district. Key points Black tigers