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The Karnataka government’s proposal to combat climate change with a Rs 53,000-crore budget for 2020-2030 has been left on the shelf of the Union government for about a year, even as officials and activists warn that a lack of urgency in implementing the action plan will have a detrimental effect on the nature.

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As many as 600 elephants have been killed due to electrocution in India from 2009-10 to 2019-20 with Karnataka accounting for 116 of the deaths, second only to Odisha (117). Officials warn that constant pressure of development work in elephant ranges and climate change may pose more challenges to conservation.

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In what was called the first study to assess the genetic impact on captive-bred wild animals in India, scientists have found that pygmy hogs, the endangered and smallest pig species in the wild maintained genetic diversity even after long-term captive breeding in Assam.  Conservationists in Assam have done captive breeding of nearly 500 pygmy hogs since 1996 and have so far

Updated Jul 17, 2021, 10:36 am IST The bag is most sustainable and commercially viable alternative to single-use plastic  About 5 trillion single-use plastic bags are being used worldwide annually. Only one percent of them are being recycled, Manohar Babu pointed out. (Representational image: Twitter/@DRDO_India)) Tirupati: In a bid to put an end to single-use plastic globally, the DRDO, in collaboration with Ecolastic Products Private Limited, has co-developed biodegradable and compostable b...

In view of rapid spread of the coronavirus in the country, the Ministry of Environment Forests and Climate Change, recently issued an advisory to close all zoological parks, national parks, tiger reserves and wildlife sanctuaries for visitors till further orders to control the spread of the pandemic.

Eight Asiatic lions in Hyderabad zoo test Covid positive May 04, 2021 At least eight Asiatic lions at the Nehru Zoological Park in Hyderabad have tested positive for Covid 19, forcing the authorities to close the zoo. ICMR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology will investigate how the lions contracted the virus and the source of infection. The State government has decided to close all zoologcal parks, including Nehru Zoological park, other national parks and various wildlife sanctuaries in ...

Indian government’s development plans for the Andamans may endanger the world’s largest sea turtles The government wants to open Little Andaman and ‘release the area for deployment of strategic assets’. A leatherback sea turtle at a nesting site in the Little Andaman. | Adith Swaminathan/ Mongabay India A 58-page, undated “vision document” for the “sustainable development” of the Little Andaman Island in the Bay of Bengal was produced by the NITI Aayog, a thin...

Leatherback turtles under threat as government considers ‘development’ in Little Andamans by Rosamma Thomas on 12 April 2021 Proposed development of the Little Andaman islands, if implemented, will pose a threat to nesting sites of the leatherback turtle. Five species of marine turtles are found in Indian waters. The leatherback is the largest of all living turtles and India and Sri Lanka are the only places in South Asia with large nesting populations. The island is also home to the Onge ...