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‘If you allow subordinate workers to gang up…’: Uttarakhand HC calls for review of senior forest officer’s transfer
September 04, 2025 7:12 pm
Pankaj Kumar, who took over as Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve director in March 2024, was transferred before his minimum tenure was completed. He alleged he was shunted out following a ‘malicious campaign’ by workers in the office.
What is a tree? Delhi Forest dept clarifies in circular
September 02, 2025 2:23 am
The legal definition should be followed in letter and spirit, the circular emphasised
After 30 years of delay, Forest dept finally sets a timeline to protect Delhi’s green lungs. Here are the details
July 25, 2025 3:22 pm
Over 3,200 hectares in 12 villages of South Delhi fall under Delhi's Southern Ridge and form an extension of the Aravalli Range, but it remained unprotected on paper.
For renewal of Western Ghats, put people at the centre
June 30, 2025 12:37 pm
The process of democratic decentralisation should help in the region’s ecological revival
‘I’ve seen it four times’: Delhi village on the edge after leopard sighting, inspection teams deployed
June 17, 2025 4:18 am
Forest officials confirmed that the recent photograph was taken at Jagatpur near Yamuna Biodiversity Park Phase II
How Gujarat counted its Asiatic lions: 35,000 square km, 11 districts, 3,000 people
May 21, 2025 1:29 pm
Population of Asiatic Lions rises to 891 in Gujarat; CM Patel releases data of 16th Lion Census
Asiatic black bear found dead with gunshot injuries outside forested area in Shimla
April 07, 2025 2:23 pm
After the Himachal Pradesh Forest and Wildlife Department lodged an FIR, the police launched a probe into the Asiatic black bear's death.
Saswad forest guard in Pune held for accepting bribe from farmer
April 05, 2025 1:09 pm
According to ACB, the accused, Govind allegedly sought Rs 2 lakh from the farmer who had dug a hole in the forest land for his cattle.
5 years and counting: NGT raps DDA, other agencies for failure to clear Yamuna floodplains of encroachments
February 11, 2025 7:38 am
In the 22-km stretch between Wazirabad and Okhla in Delhi where Yamuna flows, the Delhi Development Authority and other agencies were directed to remove encroachments in the floodplains in a 2019 order passed by the National Green Tribunal and an April order last year by the Delhi High Court.
After safari tourists block way of tigress and cubs, Maharashtra bans mobile phones in all reserved forests
January 16, 2025 5:04 pm
This decision follows the Bombay High Court taking cognisance of a news report that tourists’ vehicles blocked the way of a tigress and her five cubs in a reserve in Vidarbha on December 31, 2024.
FOREST DEPARTMENT VIDEOS
Tiger kills 2-year-old boy in Haridwar
February 26, 2016 5:28 am
Haridwar, Feb 26 (ANI): Panic gripped Haridwar’s Motichoor area when a tiger took away a two-year-old child and killed him. Angry residents blocked the National Highway-72 for two hours and warned the forest department that such incidents should never happen again in the future. Superintendent of Police Shweta Choubey on Friday said the villagers have demanded for electric fencing throughout the forest. She further said that the villagers have also asked for compensation and the government is looking into the matter.
Police seize 5,000 tortoise
January 13, 2016 9:31 am
Dumka, Jan 13 (ANI): The police seized thousands of tortoise from a lorry in Dumka district of Jharkhand. The police seized 75 sacks full of tortoise from the smugglers after they inspected the lorry at a check post on grounds of suspicion. However, the driver and his assistant managed to escape. Police official, Ajit Kumar, said there were at least 5,000 tortoise. I am still counting the number of tortoise but there are at least 5,000 to 7,000 of them. Around 107 tortoises were counted dead. The animals were given to the forest department and were released into a dam in Dumka district.
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