Urbanisation was the most significant between 1991 and 2001: data
Nearly half the population of Tamil Nadu live in urban areas, as the State continues to maintain its status as one of the country's most urbanised ones.
The Department is also planning to go in for renewal of vegetation
The Coimbatore Circle of the Forest Department is embarking on an ambitious project to improve the wildlife habitat in reserve forests and protected areas by ensuring availability of fodder and water.
Leading renewable energy power company Orient Green Power Company (OGPL) has commissioned a 18.7 MW wind farm project at Gudimangalam in Tiruppur district of Tamil Nadu. With this new addition, OGPL now has an operating capacity of 172 MW of wind energy in Tamil Nadu making it the leading wind independent power producers (IPPs) in the state.
Pilot project in 20 acres; NBR to compete for UNESCO award
The Coimbatore Circle of the Forest Department would soon embark on an ambitious plan to replace the exotic species in the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve (NBR) with Shola forests (one with tall fully grown trees) and grassland eco-system in a phased manner.
Talking toThe Hindu, Conservator of Forests, Coimbatore Circle, V.T.
There is an imperative need to use technology for better wildlife management and effective conflict resolution methodologies, Consultant and expert of the World Wildlife Fund Ajay A. Desai tells V.S. Palaniappan.
Mr. Desai is in Coimbatore to radio-collar two problematic elephants in Coimbatore division that indulged in crop raids and caused loss of human lives. Mr.
A 20-year-old male elephant that was shot with a tranquillising dart by Forest and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) experts for fixing the radio collar in the small hours of Sunday was later found dead.
Orient Green Power Company Ltd. (OGPL), an independent renewable energy-based power generation company, has synchronized its 10 MW bio-mass power plant near Pollachi into the Tamil Nadu grid at Angalakurichi in Coimbatore district.
Will identify herd and fix it on one of the animals
CHENNAI: In an attempt to reduce man-animal conflict and warn farmers about the movement of crop raiding elephants in Coimbatore Forest Circle, the State Forest Department has proposed to radio collar an elephant from a herd, which will be monitored for two years.
Forest Department sources said the World Wide Fund for Nature-India (WWF-I) has
4,531 men, 3,403 women and 25 transgenders had tested HIV positive In 2010, Coimbatore was in second place Awareness programme to be conducted COIMBATORE: Coimbatore district has 8,359 HIV positive people, including 17 prisoners, Collector M.
COIMBATORE: The Tamil Nadu Government should strongly oppose Kerala's stand on the Mullaiperiyar issue, said Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader Vaiko at a public function held in Karamadai, near Coimbatore, on Monday.
He said the State's interests were under threat as the new Kerala Chief Minister Oomen Chandy had declared after assuming office that Kerala would go ahead and build a
