LUCKNOW: Banke has his clan growing. The dusky old rhino, now 30 plus, has seen his fourth generation set in. When his female partner Rajeshwari gave birth to a calf on Friday (September 11), a new hope dawned for the rhinos in Dudhwa.

Impressing upon the government to take steps to save the burgeoning industry based on gypsum, the Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) has urged it not to stop the mining of gypsum in the Uri sector.

With concerns mounting over rhinos killed by poachers in the Orang National Park, the Department of Forests has instituted a high-level inquiry into the matter.

Capital Development Authority (CDA) has once again decided to install chairlift at Margalla Hills despite the objection raised by environmentalists that caused to shelve the project in 2004. The environmentalists believed that the chairlift was hazards to the National Park, reserved as green area under Master Plan.

Even as 13 mines including six which are close to wildlife sanctuaries, are facing closure, the Goa government

Pramod Kumar
Aug. 18: The Orissa government has urged the Centre to deploy Central paramilitary forces in the state, especially to protect sanctuaries and national parks from the left wing extremists.

The Goa environment ministry ordered the closure of 12 mines last week for their proximity to wildlife sanctuaries, but the government's new draft mineral policy allows mining in close vicinity of the protected areas.

Even as tigers go extinct in national parks across India, a study has found that translocating a tiger from one part of the country to another could end up doing more harm than good. In fact, a tiger genome study shows the six genetically distinct tiger populations in India should not be mixed, especially now that the threat of extinction looms large.

The population of Royal Bengal Tigers in the country is satisfactory, the latest nationwide census on the big cat states.

The census, made public on Monday, allays fears that population of the endangered species might have gone down drastically due to increased poaching.