The study warned that infrastructure development and mining will cause fragmentation and have a negative impact on quality habitat available. Mitigating this impact will be a challenge..

Kiran’s point also has context in terms of the affected communities’ close association with the forests and exposure to virus-carrying ticks circulating in wildlife..

The Indus Water Treaty is a UN-recognised trans-boundary water-sharing agreement between India and Pakistan signed by the two countries in 1960 for sharing the waters of the Indus basin..

The Google Earth images showed that one of the active stone mining sites, had a green cover in 2010 with no scars, but the current pictures show major cuts made by the heavy machines deployed to cut down the hillocks..

The vision of designating Ramsar Sites is ‘developing and maintaining an international network of wetlands which are important for the conservation of global biological diversity and for sustaining human life through the maintenance of their ecosystem components, processes and services’..

A grid-based approach was used for the surveys. The survey data fed into the occupancy modelling framework to estimate a species-specific probability of large herbivores using a given grid cell..

Chandubi lake was formed as a result of an earthquake in 1897 when parts of land along the present Assam-Meghalaya border sank and led to the formation of the lake..

Because blue whales track productive waters, their presence in Lakshadweep, which is on the cusp of major tourism and infrastructure expansion, demonstrates that the waters in this archipelago are rich and productive..

The wild boar, in particular, has become a regular menace for the farming community in India..

Amid this conflict, environmentalists, concerned citizens and civil society organisations of both the states maintain that both these states are neither doing justice to their people nor the river..

Experts and activists say they believe that due to the Covid-19 pandemic the government is facing a budget constraint and avoiding expenditure on flood relief..

Much of the conservation in these locations is around ecosystem services – the benefits that the communities derive from the wetlands..

Once the causes were identified, SEESCAP members started surveying the village and areas near it to identify areas that needed to be protected..

Other than the threat of tigers, strict vigilance and stringent conservation rules make islanders’ access to the forest difficult..

Tiger habitats in India are fragmented and highly mosaic, often interspersed with human-dominated landscapes..