Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited has moved to the Madras High Court with a plea to quash a 1998 Government Order (G.O.) through which not only the 73.06 acre Vedanthangal Lake but also all places within the 5km radius around it were declared a bird sanctuary. Chief Justice S.V. Gangapurwala and Justice P.D. Audikesavalu on Monday … Read more
Wild elephant Arikompan is blindfolded before being loaded into a truck at Chinnakkanal in Idukki on April 29, 2023.. | Photo Credit: Jomon Pampavalley A day after they set out to capture and translocate wild tusker Arikompan, the members of the special task force of the Forest department succeeded in the mission after a gruelling … Read more
George Thomas, a nonagenarian settler-farmer from Muthukad, a verdant agricultural village located 55 km away from Kozhikode, is living in fear of the future these days. The events unfolding in the State over the Supreme Court’s direction that every protected forest, national park and wildlife sanctuary in the country should have a mandatory eco-sensitive zone … Read more
A pair of Blackbucks lock horns Tal Chhapar Sanctuary. File | Photo Credit: V.V. Krishnan The famous Tal Chhapar blackbuck sanctuary in Rajasthan’s Churu district has received a protective cover against a proposed move of the State government to reduce the size of its eco-sensitive zone. The World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) has also … Read more