Migratory freshwater fish have declined by 81 per cent worldwide since the 1970s, and a commentary from India’s Himalayan headwaters argues that dams and village rules there will decide whether the survivors still have a river to travel.
Uttarakhand
Saket Badola, field director of Corbett Tiger Reserve, has announced he is retiring voluntarily from the Indian Forest Service at mid-career, citing personal grounds.
A hyena has been sighted in Uttarakhand’s Corbett Tiger Reserve for the first time in recent years, an animal that had been feared lost from the reserve altogether.
The Wildlife Conservation Trust has retold how two British artists sketched a wild male rhinoceros at Kotdwar on 20 April 1789, evidence that the Great Indian Rhinoceros once lived in what is now Uttarakhand.
Himalayan monals at the busy tourist spot of Chopta call at a higher pitch than those in the quieter Madmaheshwar Valley, according to research from Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University that BBC News highlighted on Tuesday.
Corbett Tiger Reserve has published a programme for Wildlife Week running from 1 to 7 October, with a cyclothon, school debates on corridors and eco-tourism, clean-up drives and panel discussions across Ramnagar, Kalagarh and Kotdwar.
Several of India’s best-known tiger reserves reopen their core zones on 1 October after the monsoon. Expect tall grass, full waterholes and a greener forest, and don’t count on a wave of new cubs just because the rains are over.
Uttarakhand’s Corbett landscape will host its first literary festival this October.
Gujarat marked National Forest Martyrs’ Day on Friday by handing ₹50 lakh to the family of Vikas Desai, the Vyara range forest officer killed in July while chasing down a truck loaded with stolen timber.
Hotels and safari operators around Jawai can no longer sell a stay on the promise of a leopard sighting.