State govt: Conservator needs time for survey of wetlands
HC Informed About Oct ’13 Directive Mumbai: The Bombay high court was informed on Wednesday that the state government had issued directions to all civic bodies to enforce a ban on reclamation or...
View ArticleWetlands and agriculture: partners for growth - World Wetlands Day 2014
In support of the UN International Year of Family Farming, Ramsar’s theme for World Wetlands Day 2014 is Wetlands and agriculture. This leaflet looks at different types and scales of agriculture, at the
View ArticleDrive begins to sensitize people on wetland management
Gujarat Ecology Commission (GEC) has launched a special campaign on wetland management to mark the World Wetlands Day that falls on February 2. The campaign aims to sensitize communities residing along
View ArticleRevive dying wetlands to purify water: Experts
Once a desolate spot, Yamuna Biodiversity Park has now become a favourite haunt of birdwatchers. The park has been welcoming hundreds of migratory birds from Siberia, Europe and the Himalayas every year,
View ArticleWorld Wetlands Day:Need to save our marshlands and mangroves
"Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last river has been poisoned, only after the last fish has been caught, only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten." -- Cree...
View ArticleExperts, eco-scholars conduct annual water bird census
To count the number of migratory and local birds in the Yamuna river in Farah area of Mathura, ornithologists and a group of Yamuna eco-scholars participated in the four km long march on the occasion of
View ArticleSindh’s losing wetlands to industrial pollution
While the nations around the world were busy celebrating World Wetlands Day (WWD) on Sunday to mark the date of the adoption of Convention on Wetlands, February 2, 1971 in Iranian city of Ramsar on the
View ArticleWetlands and people
The IWMI has launched a report, titled ‘Wetlands and People.' The report emphasizes both the important role wetlands play in local communities livelihoods and the intensification of threats to wetlands.
View ArticleOrder of the National Green Tribunal regarding Kanjurmarg dumping ground,...
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vanshakti & Anr. Vs MCZMA dated 06/02/2014 regarding Kanjurmarg dumping ground. NGT order says that there is "some ambiguity as regards the...
View ArticleVasundhara Raje's green concern a black spot on solar plant
At a time when Union minister for new and renewable energy Farooq Abdullah is contemplating to ask World Bank for an assistance of $500 million for the first phase of Sambhar ultra-mega solar power...
View ArticleIsrael help to reduce water pollution
A team of experts from Israel on Tuesday reached Bhubaneswar to study groundwater pollution in the city. The Chilika Development Authority (CDA), which is managing the wetlands at Chilika, is facilitating
View ArticleProtest intensifies against Aranmula airport project
Former minister and CPI leader Mullakkara Ratnakaran on Tuesday inaugurated an indefinite satyagraha against the proposed Aranmula airport project organised by the anti-Aranmula airport coordination...
View ArticleGovt. exploring ecological solution to pollution of water bodies
CDA facilitates visit of expert to the wetland near Bhubaneswar Odisha government is exploring an ecological solution to pollution of water bodies contaminated on account of discharge of untreated...
View ArticleNGT shadow on MP lake fest
The Madhya Pradesh government will be organising the “Lake Festival” in the state capital from February 14 to 16 to boost tourism and in sharp contrast with this event is a recent order of the National
View ArticleStudy presents grim tale of shrinking Upper Lake
Upper Lake is dying a slow and painful death because of mindless dumping of solid waste from half a dozen wards of Bhopal into the Upper Lake. A study on Bhoj Wetland of Bhopal by Barkatullah University
View ArticleAirport site no wetland: State in NGT
Says Region Waterlogged Property Now The state government has claimed that the proposed Aranmula airport would not be coming up on a wetland. In a counter affidavit filed at the Chennai bench of...
View ArticleAranmula project site no wetland: State in green tribunal
The state government has claimed that the proposed Aranmula airport would not be coming up on a wetland. In a counter affidavit filed at the Chennai bench of National Green Tribunal in the case...
View ArticleEndangered white vulture sighted in Chhattisgarh
During a research on migratory birds conducted by Chhattisgarh forest research and training institute, a rare and endangered species of white vulture was spotted at Sahaspur forest range of Kawardha...
View Article’No land pattas to families residing in forest and wetland areas’
GUWAHATI, February 19: Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday clearly said that land pattas will not be given to those families who are residing in forest and wetland areas of the city. “They will be
View ArticleGovt. to remove anomalies in applying CRZ provisions
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said the State government has taken note of the wrongful application of the Coastal Regulation Zone provisions to municipal corporations and corporations, effectively...
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