Forest guards escort 18 children to school in Assam due to tiger threat GUWAHATI: A group of 18 children might have felt like VIPs on Monday when they were escorted to their school and brought back home by forest guards wielding gun. The forest department had to take this measure as a str...
They are also geographically unique with the former characterised by mountains and forestlands, and the latter having large coastal area and water bodies. Land use changes in these states is limited by their geography as well as by law for environmental protection. Comparable data on air quality ...
The coastal mangrove acts as a great carbon sinker or reservoir with a rate of 2–4 times higher than a mature tropical or sub-tropical forest region20. The previous literatures have already shown that species diversity or variation has direct and indirect function composition on carbon storage i...
Shortage of 1042 Indian Forest Service officers Eranki Venkat Bhaskar returns to parent cadre Tenure of Ms Jaya Dubey as Jt Secretary, Administrative Reforms extended Leyaqat Ali Aafaqui returns to parent cadre A senior officer shifted within five months for carrying out PM’s vision ...
32000 crore greenfield hydroelectric project: RFQ ahead8Forest clearance (stage-1) is under approval stage8RFQ for the PMC is likely to be floated in January 2025.Click here for more details Rs. 12000 thermal power expansion project: RFQ ahead8Technical bid has been completed for the cooling ...
Forestry: Detecting forest fires and deforestation & preventing large-scale wildfires.Agriculture: Assessing vegetation state on a selected terrain.Healthcare: Monitoring areas of epidemic outbreaks.Ecology: Tracing species populations in certain areas, preventing and addressing calamities....
The study is financially supported by the NMHS large grant project entitled ‘Biodiversity Assessment through long-term monitoring plots in the Indian Himalayan Landscape’ (Ref. No. NMHS/LG-2016/0011) and Core funding of Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Ministry of Environment, Forest and ...
An ethnomedicinal field survey report on traditionally used plants by the Nepalese of Alubari Jungle Busty in Darjeeling Himalaya as potential immunity booster and fever-related herbal drugs Panda, SubhasisThami, Jai Kumar 157-167 Ex situconservation and qualitative characterization of traditional cultiva...
Section 14 of the guidelines implies waste collection systems run by the producers, importers and brand owners, thus allowing multiple waste collection systems operated by different entities to exist simultaneously in the same locality (Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change, 2022a). Coordina...
The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change is central to environmental regulation and policy formulation, covering different spheres of the environment, including emissions of air pollutants, consumption of water, utilisation of hazardous waste, noise generation, utilisation of forest land and...