Suvendu orders crackdown on illegal sawmills, timber smugglers as Forest Week begins
The Chief Minister stressed that survival of saplings was more important than the number planted.
The Chief Minister stressed that survival of saplings was more important than the number planted.
A drive by the Forest Department to demolish illegal prawn dykes inside the Bhitarkanika National Park was halted on Wednesday after villagers staged a protest at Karandiapatana village under Mahakalapada Forest Range in Odisha's Kendrapara district, claiming they have depended on shrimp farming for their livelihood for decades.
In yet another glaring case of alleged negligence in monitoring and surveillance by field staff of the Madhya Pradesh Forest Department, a radio-collared adult tiger that was recently rescued from a village and released into the jungle was found dead in the buffer zone of the Panna Tiger Reserve (PTR) in Madhya Pradesh.
The animal was first sighted in Hawai Nagar in the early hours and later moved towards Birsa Chowk, disrupting traffic and forcing residents to remain indoors.
Environmentalist Subhash Dutta has written to the District Magistrate of Birbhum, Dhabal Jain, seeking a ban on the playing colours at the Sonajhuri forest in Santiniketan during Basant Utsav.
Uttar Pradesh forest department has rescued six dolphins from the Indira canal in Nagram area of the state capital on Wednesday.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has stressed the urgency of comprehensive measures to combat the heat wave and its impact.
The forest department has banned playing of Holi within Sonajhuri Haat area in Santiniketan, this year.
Barrackpore police and forest department officials seized a large number of turtles being smuggled from Dhanbad to Majdia and arrested a woman in connection with the incident.
A tiger that strayed into Maipith’s jungles in the Sundarbans, was finally captured early this morning, thanks to the relentless efforts of forest officials.
