[ad_1] Steven McIntoshEntertainment reporterGetty ImagesThe closing credits of 2021's No Time To Die, the most recent film in the 007 series, ended with a familiar message: "James Bond will return."But for the last few years,…
Swim to safety: On the dugong and conservation
[ad_1] Once widespread across the Gulf of Mannar, Palk Bay, the Gulf of Kutch and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India’s dugongs dwindled to a few hundred individuals as poaching, by-catch, habitat loss and pollution…
ONGC told to allocate fund for mangrove conservation,…
[ad_1] Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Konaseema District Collector R. Mahesh Kumar has directed the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) to allocate funds under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for the conservation of Kandikuppa and…
Opposition parties term Forest Conservation Amendment Act a…
[ad_1] Representative image | Photo Credit: The Hindu Opposition parties and several organisations in Mizoram have termed the Forest (Conservation) Amendment Act (FCAA), 2023, adopted by the Assembly, as a “serious threat” to the state…
Calls to declare Nilgiri lily ‘district flower’ to…
[ad_1] The Nilgiri lily. | Photo Credit: M. Sathyamoorthy With the endemic Nilgiri lily (Lilium wallichianum var. neilgherrense) in bloom across its limited geographical landscape in the Western Ghats, ecologists and botanists have highlighted the…
India’s first vulture conservation portal launched in Assam
[ad_1] Image for the purpose of representation only. | Photo Credit: The Hindu An Assam-based foundation working on vulture conservation has developed a portal - reportedly the first of its kind in India - to…
Ecotourism project begins at Munderikadavu amid conservation concerns
[ad_1] The first phase of the much-awaited ecotourism project at Munderikadavu, a haven for migratory birds that is proposed to be developed into a bird sanctuary, has commenced with plans to create extensive facilities for…
Assam village chiefs made stakeholders in vulture conservation
[ad_1] An education, awareness, and sensitisation campaign launched by Aaranyak in the fight to save vultures. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement GUWAHATIAn Assam-based biodiversity conservation organisation has roped in gram pradhans or village chiefs as…
World Nature Conservation Day | Anil Mistry: From…
[ad_1] It was a quiet day in the late 90s. A young man born in a poacher’s family was in the middle of a hunt in the dense forests of the Sundarbans. They had managed…