-PTI/The Telegraph Our team swung into action and douse flames soon after we receive such information from Forest Survey of India, says Deputy Director Kumar Ashish Medininagar: The Palamu Tiger Reserve (PTR) of Jharkhand has witnessed small or big forest fire incidents around 1,600 times this year, a senior official said. However, there is no report of any damage to wild animals due to the fire incidents. Dehradun-based Forest Survey of India (FSI) which...
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Common survey to count India’s elephant and tiger populations -Jacob Koshy
-The Hindu Pressing need to improve and harmonise the population estimation methods: Environment Minister From December, India will move to a system that will count tigers and elephants as part of a common survey. The Tiger Survey is usually held once in four years and elephants are counted once in five years. According to the most recent 2018-19 survey, there were 2,997 tigers in India. According to the last count in 2017,...
More »India’s environment ministry created new offices – but failed to hire staff for them -Ishan Kukreti
-Scroll.in The result is a big mess, in the words of one official. In nine months since September, a file containing a proposal seeking environmental approval to upgrade a highway in Sikkim has travelled about 1,500 km from Shillong to Kolkata to Guwahati, before returning to rest in an office in Kolkata. Until last week, the file had not been examined, an official in the environment ministry said. The story of this file...
More »India's rush for nuclear power may destroy Nallamala forest ecosystem -Charan Teja
-TheNewsMinute.com From affecting wildlife to threatening Chenchu tribes, this is what India’s nuclear power goals can do to Telangana’s Nallamala forest. There is a clear difference in the surroundings as one approaches the Nallamala forest in Nagarkurnool Telangana; the breeze is cooler, and the lush greenery takes over both sides of the road. Seated in the heart of the gigantic forest is the Amrabad Tiger Reserve, one of the biggest in...
More »India's rural transformation: A myth or reality? -Pramit Bhattacharya
-Livemint.com The transformation of the Indian countryside has been slow and messy One of the celebrated success stories of India’s growth experience over the past decade was the rapid transformation of the countryside, with a massive shift in the rural labour market away from farm jobs. Two labour economists have now challenged the empirical foundations of that success story, raising deep questions on the nature and scale of that transformation. Their research also...
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