State Forest Minister Dr Harak Singh Rawat today called upon the industry to understand environmental concerns and not to spoil it for petty profits.

DEHRADUN: Wildlife Institute of India (WII) which is to conduct the fresh estimation of tigers in Corbett Tiger Reserve through camera trap images to find out about the numbers of tigers found miss

The chairman of the Foundation for Integrated Resource Management (FIRM) and former director general of the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) VK Bahuguna has written to the

DEHRADUN: A new study has debunked a widely-held belief in the scientific community that global warming would cause the tree line -- the mountain zone after which trees stop growing -- to advance u

The Uttarakhand government has moved the Supreme Court challenging an Uttarakhand High Court order granting the rivers Ganga, Yamuna and their tributaries the status of living human entities.

The Environment Ministry's Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) on river valley and hydroelectric projects has recommended a three-year extension to the validity of the environmental clearance (EC) for

DEHRADUN : A team of forest officials of Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) and leopard experts from Wildlife Conservation Society Vidya Athreya has begun training workshop for local youth of leopa

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Birendra Singh Matura & Ors. Vs. Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change & Ors dated 19/06/2017 regarding widening of NH-34 which is in violation of the Bhagirathi Eco Sensitive Zone Notification.

The Order notes that all the Parties are at consensus that 94 kms of stretch of NH-34 from Dharasu to Gangotri Forest falls within EcoSensitive Zone and any developmental activity in ESZ needs to conform with Zonal Master Plan.

NAINITAL: More than 2.26 lakh families of farmers who migrated from the hill districts — since inception of Uttarakhand in 2000 — for survival have been "reduced to manual labourers" in various cit

RISHIKESH: In a first of its kind initiative, 'green' crematoriums are planned to be built in villages along the Ganga (which have been branded as Ganga grams under the Namami Gange project).

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