The lives of rural Bhutanese is expected to get better once the six projects for environment conservation is implemented.

From November this year, people in Sipsoo in Samtse and Sarpang will have a stone masonry and elephant trench built with solar electric fencing to keep the elephants away.

While up north the project would replace the shingle roofs of 236 houses in Merak and 139 houses in

Calcutta, June 26: Procedural complications are a major hurdle to Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee

KOLKATA, 23 JUNE: A dye factory located adjacent to the Indian Botanic Garden in Howrah was closed following the environment minister, Mr Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar

Man-animal conflict
Yalandur: The recent encounters between humans and animals has caused a lot of concern to wildlife conservationists all over the sub continent.

An elephant and its calf seen in the BRT reserve in Yalandur taluk. Sindhuvalli Paramesh who is conducting research on the elephant corridors has submitted reports on China and other countries.

Formulate rules to allow or ban them, Court tells govt
The sensitive issue of granting permits to resorts near national parks and protected forest areas has come under the scanner with the High Court on Wednesday observing that the government needs to have a standard rule

Panjim: Notwithstanding guidelines released by MoEF on man-leopard conflict, Goa

GANGTOK, June 20

The Rajasthan Government has started consultations with operators of private hotels around Ranthambhore National Park in Sawai Madhopur and Sariska Tiger Reserve in Alwar to finalise the quantum of cess to be imposed by the end of the year, as directed by the Union Ministry of Forest and Environment.

According to official sources, the Tiger Task Force headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had

The Odisha government is considering setting up an eco-tourism park in the Manchabandha Reserve in Baripada territorial forest division.
A project for wildlife conservation in the area is also in the pipeline, forest department sources said.
Nearly 822 hectares of lush green forest area has been earmarked for the projects.
The area is covered with dense Sal vegetation.
Of the total area, 210 h