Indian parliament’s upper house today passed a bill — The Compensatory Afforestation Fund Bill, 2016 — that will allow the government to use 400 billion rupees of accumulated funds for conservation, protection, improvement and expansion of forest and wildlife resources of the country.
The Bill was earlier approved by the lower house, Lok Sabha, in May 2016.
Some years ago, an investment banker and I were chatting about signs one can look for to tell if […]
Tiger deaths were reported from Assam’s Kaziranga, Kerala’s Wayanad and Karnataka’s Nagarhole in Oct. The last incident was […]
Tiger is India’s national animal. Here are some interesting facts: Status: endangered Only 3,200 tigers remain in the […]
Chopper services to one of Hinduism’s holiest hill shrines in northern India may be scaring away wildlife from […]
Since our childhood days, our rendezvous with wildlife was limited to the local temple elephant. Though the animal […]
Forest department officials trapped a 15-year-old tiger after it moved closer to a Kerala village and started preying […]
Friends of Elephants and Namma Metro are organizing `Elephant Family,’ a session that will offer insights into the […]
In the most thrilling news for conservationists, a snow leopard has been sighted in Kumaon in Himalayas, proving […]
Animal rights activists are seeking Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention after the Kerala forest department allowed actor […]
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