Chiranjeevi Kulkarni

Forest, Minister Eshwar B Khandre asked the Additional Chief Secretary of the department to explore the efficacy of the steel-rope fence built by Tamil Nadu.

The controversial Sharavathy pumped-storage project will include blasting and movement of heavy machinery in the Sharavathi Lion Tailed Macaque Sanctuary and felling at least 14,000 trees of evergreen forest in the heart of the Western Ghats.

The report, titled 'Beyond North', examined NO2 concentrations in seven densely populated Indian cities — Jaipur, Pune, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, and Chennai — that have not received the attention they deserve regarding air quality.

Pointing to several stipulations under chapter 7.1 of the draft policy, the co-convenors of ASHA said the same provisions in the farm laws were resisted 'because the government was giving up its responsibilities in protecting farmers interests and presenting de-regulation as an answer'.

Pointing to several stipulations under chapter 7.1 of the draft policy, the co-convenors of ASHA said the same provisions in the farm laws were resisted 'because the government was giving up its responsibilities in protecting farmers interests and presenting de-regulation as an answer'.

IPBES report bats for 'nexus' approach to save biodiversity, food, water and health, mitigate climate change.

In a thematic assessment report titled 'The underlying causes of biodiversity loss and the determinants of transformative change and options for achieving the 2050 vision for biodiversity', IPBES noted that the current views of biodiversity and the practices adopted by the governance structures 'perpetuate and reinforce the underlying causes of the biodiversity loss and nature's decline'.

Under the banner of ‘Vrushalaksha Andolana', 12 activists and conservationists have, in an open letter, questioned the state forest and environment department's stance on the project.

A principal bench of the NGT by Justice Sudhir Agarwal and expert member A Senthil Vel registered a suo motu case following a report published by DH on December 6 titled 'Bengaluru's nitrogen dioxide levels in 2023 double the safe limits', based on a study by Greenpeace India.

The facility, a long-pending demand from the Forest Department, is aimed at bringing to logical end the wildlife-related cases reported by the department, the forest cell of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) as well as the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau.