According to the latest Annual Monitoring, which was conducted on 24 February, the Chilika lake in Odisha has the largest habitat of Irrawaddy dolphins in the world. The first Annual Monitoring of 2018 says that ‘155 numbers of endangered Irrawaddy Read More …
Category: Environment
Olive ridley turtles create new record of mass nesting at the Rushikulya rookery
According to the ‘The Hindu‘ newspaper, with 4,28,083 mother olive ridley turtles building nests till 26 February 2018, the endangered species has created a new record of mass nesting at the Rushikulya rookery coast in the Ganjam district of Odisha Read More …
Wild horses are extinct, Przewalski is not a wild horse
According to a recent study by the scientists of University of Kansas, all the wild horses of world are now extinct. As per the study published in the Journal Science, Przewalski’s horses, which were considered to be last surviving wild Read More …
Drypetes kalamii-a new plant species identified in West Bengal
Scientists from the Botanical Survey of India have identified a new plant species from two protected National Parks’ Buxa and Jaldapara in West Bengal. To honor the former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam, the new plant species has been Read More …
Cousins of the ‘world’s ugliest animal Mr. Blobby discovered
Researchers has discovered more than 100 rarely seen fish species from a deep and cold abyss off Australia during a scientific voyage. Newly discovered creatures include blob fishes a cousin of the ‘world’s ugliest animal. Mr Blobby. Mr Blobby was Read More …
India will host the global World Environment Day 2018
United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Head of the UN Environment Erik Solheim announced on 19 February that India will host the global World Environment Day celebrations on 5 June 2018. The Central Government will organize and promote the World Environment Day celebrations Read More …
Ten wildlife fast-track courts have been set up in Assam
The forest guards in Assam, who faces threats from poachers, were given modern weapons like self-loading rifles (SLRs) and 9 MM pistols to check poaching of rhinos, tigers and other wild animals. The forest guards were given 954 SLRs, 272 Read More …
Arctic Sunrise and Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary
World environmental conservation body Greenpeace is planning to build world’s largest wildlife reserve in Antarctica. The proposed ‘Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary‘ (originally a concept of EU) would measure 1.8 million square kilometres (1.1 million square miles approx.), making it the largest Read More …
More than one lakh Orangutans killed in Borneo
According to the new study published in the journal ‘Current Biology’, more than one lakh (1,00,000) Orangutans have been killed in the jungles of Borneo since 1999. The main culprit behind the killing of endangered species Orangutans is deforestation, driven Read More …
First butterfly park of Madhya Pradesh inaugurated
Madhya Pradesh Assembly Speaker Sitasaran Sharma on February 16, 2018, dedicated the first butterfly park of the state at Gopalpur in Raisen district. This park houses 65 species of the colourful insect and nearly 137 plant varieties. As per the Read More …
PM Modi inaugurated World Sustainable Development Summit – 2018
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the second edition ‘World Sustainable Development Summit-2018’ (WSDS) in Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on February 16, 2018 Host: The summit is the flagship forum of ‘The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)’. Participants: Over two thousand Read More …
Three pairs of tigers will be translocated from MP to Odisha’s Satkosia
The Madhya Pradesh government has given an in principle nod to the proposal of National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA0 to translocate six (three pairs) of tigers to Odisha’s Satkosia Tiger Reserve (STR). The six tigers (three male and thre female) Read More …
Tuvalu’ land area increased by 2.9% despite rising sea level threat
Various reports on climate change and its effect, have warned that due to global warming, rising sea level would ultimately cause pacific nation Tuvalu to disappear from world map. But truth is that it is actually growing in size. A Read More …
Marbled crayfish are multiplying without male partner
According to the new study published in ‘Nature, Ecology and Evolution’, marbled crayfish (Procambarus virginalis) are multiplying rapidly and invading ecosystems across the world. This ten-legged pests are descended from one single female with a mutation allowing it to reproduce Read More …
Three new Eel species discovered along the coast of Bay of Bengal
A Zoological Survey of India ( ZSI) scientist Anil Mohapatra, along with other scientist have have discovered three new species of Eel along the northern Bay of Bengal coast. Newly discovered eel species, as published in the journal Zootaxa, are: Read More …