State Minister for Environment and Forests Dr Hasan Mahmud urged all, including scientific community, to come forward to protect the country's water bodies from the illegal encroachment for conserving its biodiversity and environment. "Our civilization was developed based on water bodies.

PANJIM: In a major victory for green activists in Goa, Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has asked Goa government to submit a proposal to declare Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary as tiger reserve.

In a letter to Chief Minister Digambar Kamat, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said,

India's campaign to get the Western Ghats declared as a Unesco World Heritage site has received a setback, with the United Nations committee postponing the decision to 2012, and asking the government to furnish more information.

This came even as Karnataka

Sri Lanka's Disaster Management Center has said today the forest fire started in the Knuckles Range in the Central Hills of the island on Saturday night is still continuing.

The Disaster Management Center says helicopters will be used to distinguish the fire erupted in the forest range as the area the fire is spreading is inaccessible by the Fire Brigade vehicles.

The officials of the police

AHMEDABAD: The industrial and real estate projects coming up around the state's largest wetland

Vazhachal forest falls in red zone, Colours assigned on the basis of biodiversity value
Each area assessed for eight ecological parameters
KOCHI: The Vazhachal forest of Kerala, along with other high-value biodiversity areas in the Western Ghats, will be categorised as red-zone areas by the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel.

The panel has finalised red, yellow, blue, and green colour codes

Coal mining will be allowed in Tara, Parsa East and Kante Basin blocks in Chhattisgarh

Environment minister Jairam Ramesh has approved two mining proposals

Blocks not actually within the biodiversity-rich region, he says The bastion of Hasdeo-Arand has finally been broken.