Sudha Nambudiri | KOCHI: The entire coastal belt in Kerala may come under the Coastal Management Zone-II if one goes by the population criterion mentioned in the recommendations of the M S Swaminathan

PANAJI: The Goa government on Wednesday opposed the Coastal Management Zone (CMZ) draft notification issued by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests and sought the intervention of Prime Minist

Mumbai, September 10 Months after visiting World Bank officials suggested that laws should be changed to allow Mumbai grow vertically like New York, Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Wednesday asked the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) to conduct a study on the policies to be adopted for such a development.
He was speaking at a meeting of the MMRDA, which also discussed key projects like Sewri-Nhava Shewa Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL), Mumbai Metro, monorail and construction of two feeder flyovers for the under-construction Bandra-Worli sea link being.

Kakinada, Sept. 10: The wildlife divisional forest officer (DFO), Mr K. Govinda Rao, claims the department has been taking all necessary precautions for the safety of the turtles during the nesting season. "We post guards along the coast in the nesting season to curtail the menace of foxes and dogs," he said.

Kakinada, Sept. 10: There has been a sharp decline in the number of sea turtles in the coastal areas and there are fears that proposed coastal corridor may drive them to extinction. As such, the rapid industrialisation along the coast, poaching and consumption of eggs and meat are posing a huge threat to the sea turtles, including the rare Olive Ridley species. A large number of turtles also die after being trapped in the nets of fishing trawlers and big mechanised boats.

Nagercoil: A consultation meeting organised by Centre for Environment Education, an institute promoted by the Ministry of Environment and Forest, recently in cooperation with Campaign Against Draft Coastal Zone Management Notification 2008 (CADCZMN) in Kanyakumari district evoked good response. The participants opposed the implementation of CZM

TAMLUK, Aug. 12: Members of the National Coastal Protection and Development Advisory Committee (NCPDAC) have been roped in to study the alarming trends of sea invasion along the coast of Digha-Sankarpur in West Bengal and suggest preventive measures.

After paying their visit to Sankarpur on 10 August, the committee members said that owing to the incomplete and faulty erection of the geo-tube wall along the coast of Sankarpur, it could not resist the tidal surge that hit the coast recently.

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Government finds new notification greatly centralised

Doubts about completing mapping of setback line

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government has requested the Ministry of Environment and Forest Government of India to draft a Tamil translation of the new Coastal Management Zone (CMZ) Notification 2008 in order to disseminate it among fishermen, the principal stakeholders of the coastal zone.