Call for wetlands survey
East Calcutta Wetlands, a significant part of which falls within Salt Lake and Rajarhat, needs to be assessed immediately to finalise its roadmap for survival, observed a panel of experts during a World
View ArticleLand shortages drive conflict over Kenya's wetlands
CHUKA, Kenya, May 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Phyllis Mugeni was watering her greens when she spotted a dozen armed men advancing from the lowlands to attack farmers working on the banks of the River
View ArticlePlan to map water tables using satellite images to protect, replenish aquifer...
PUDUCHERRY: The Puducherry administration on Tuesday proposed to map water tables in the Union territory using satellite images and evolve comprehensive schemes to protect and replenish aquifer beds. They
View ArticleWaste dumping at wetland: NGT seeks reply from state
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Haryana Government to respond to a plea against the alleged dumping of waste at a construction and demolition waste-recycling plant that is being built
View ArticleMore mangroves burnt, destroyed for farming; Greens urge state to protect all...
NAVI MUMBAI: A vast patch of healthy mangroves in Roadpali, Taloja, has been illegally burnt and destroyed by unidentified people to start farming after clearing the wetlands. Environmentalists are seeing
View ArticleOrder of the National Green Tribunal regarding waste dumping at Basai...
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Delhi Bird Foundation Vs. Union of India & Others dated 18/05/2018 regarding the on-going construction of the C&D Plant and dumping of...
View ArticleFloating wetland in green muddle
HYDERABAD: The Neknampur Lake’s floating treatment wetland, which has been serving as a fitting example of low-cost but effective techniques used to clean city lakes, has been facing controversies after
View ArticleNGT refuses a stay on Basai waste plant
GURUGRAM: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has refused to stay the construction of a waste recycling plant in Basai wetland, in response to an application alleging that MCG doesn’t have requisite...
View ArticleFreshwater decline in India: NASA study
Earth’s wetland areas are getting wetter and dry areas are getting drier due to a variety of factors, including human water management, climate change and natural cycles, says the premier US institute
View Article100 wetlands to be protected in state
As many as a hundred waterbodies in the state will get an additional protective ring as the State Wetland Authority is all set to notify them as ‘priority wetlands’, bringing in a series of measures for
View ArticleSalt producers accuse ‘encroachers’ of destroying wetlands
Salt producers in the Greater Accra Region are up in arms against encroachers they accuse of destroying wetlands and making salt production difficult. Panbros Salt Industries Limited is located at...
View ArticleImpact report on wetlands projects
New Town: A crucial environment impact assessment has been commissioned for a road and a flyover that are to be built through the East Calcutta Wetlands, a 12,500-hectare span of water bodies regarded
View ArticleUganda: Conservationist Call for Review of Draft Wetlands Bill 2009
Conservationists have called for a review of the National Policy for the Conservation and Management of Wetland Resources 1995 and the draft Wetlands Bill 2009 if Uganda's wetlands are to be safeguarded.
View ArticleWith water source cut off, Surajpur bears a parched look
GREATER NODAI: In a situation never seen before, Surajpur Wetland, a perennial wetland on the outskirts of Greater Noida, which is fed by rainfall, Hawaliya drain or Tilapta Canal, has gone entirely dry
View ArticleEnvironmentalists to make inventory of Navi Mumbai wetland sites
NAVI MUMBAI: The city-based environmentalists have decided to try and make a complete inventory of the wetland sites so as to safeguard them by getting them notified by the government. After the latest
View ArticleIraq's Wetland Wildlife Threatened by Low Water Levels
Dozens of water buffalo in Iraq's southeastern wetlands have died because of low water levels in the marshes, threatening the livelihoods of a community of marsh dwellers that has made the area its home
View ArticleNGT directs Goa to comply with wetland conservation rules
PANJIM: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed Goa to comply with the rules on wetland conservation and management while prohibiting various activities including reclamation of wetlands....
View ArticlePoliticians to blame for the KC Valley project mess, says expert
Dr T V Ramachandra, lead scientist at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), who had warned the government in 2015 of the dangers of supplying poorly treated water, to Kolar insists that it is...
View ArticleKenya: Nema Demolishes South End Mall Along Lang'ata Road
South End Mall on Langata Road has become the latest casualty of the ongoing campaign by the national environment watchdog to reclaim grabbed wetlands in the capital Nairobi. A bulldozer, on instruction
View ArticleKyetinda wetland encroachers facing eviction
KAMPALA - Residents of Makindye in Kampala who have encroached on Kyetinda Wetland in recent years have been left on tenterhooks. Their time in the swamp, according to the National Environment Management
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