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After the floods, Bengaluru needs to clean up its act -TR Raghunandan

-The Hindu Everybody has a favourite villain to blame, yet the herd of restive Elephants in the room is led by a particularly malevolent matriarch — corruption The floods have abated in Bengaluru. As individuals struggle to clean their houses, the silt on the roads left behind by the receding water — now a fine dust that flies in the air choking us — is a reminder of those difficult times. Various analyses...

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29 elephant poaching cases in 3 years: Centre -Shiv Sahay Singh

-The Hindu The period also saw 90 cases of seizure of tusks/ivory, Forest Ministry tells Lok Sabha In the past three years, 90 cases of seizure of elephant tusks/ivory have been reported in India along with 29 cases of poaching of Elephants. The data were shared by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MOEFCC) in the Lok Sabha on August 8. The highest number of cases of elephant tusk seizure...

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People’s ecologist -Ramachandra Guha

-The Telegraph The scientist, Madhav Gadgil, turns 80 this month I come from a family of scientists, but I shied away from studying science myself. Yet, in a happy irony, it turned out that the most important intellectual collaboration of my life was with a scientist, Madhav Gadgil, whose eightieth birthday falls later this month. Born in Pune, Gadgil studied in Bombay, and at Harvard, where he took a PhD in ecology and...

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Environmentalists protest Chhattisgarh’s green signal to mining projects in Hasdeo Aranya -Shuchita Jha

-Down to Earth The Hasdeo forest covering Chhattisgarh’s Korba, Sarguja and Surajpur districts, is a noted migratory corridor and has a significant presence of Elephants Environmentalists stood in the sun at the Chhattisgarh Sadan from 10 am to late afternoon on April 11, 2022, protesting the second phase clearance given to the mining projects in Hasdeo Aranya. The Chhattisgarh government has also given the final clearance for the Parsa coal block and the...

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Coal India illegally mined coal worth Rs 4,900 crore in Assam, commission blames Centre and state -Rokibuz Zaman

-Scroll.in A one-man judicial commission has recommended that the company pay the full amount as penalty for its violations in a forest that is home to Elephants. In July 2020, the government of Assam ordered an inquiry into allegations of illegal mining in the state’s Digboi forest division. The division, an administrative category, falls within the larger Dehing Patkai Elephant Reserve, one of India’s largest rainforests. In December 2021, the report of the...

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