Mumbai: Wildlife experts are fuming over recent decisions made by the Maharashtra State Wildlife Board (SWB), alleging that the board has been acting against the interests of wildlife.

The board met hurriedly on February 20, without prior notice to members and without issuing an agenda.

Mumbai: While Mumbai was waking up to a lazy Sunday morning, 500-odd birders had already hit birding hotspots like Karnala Bird Sanctuary, Sanjay Gandhi National Park and even Fansad Wildlife Sanctuary.

The fifth edition of Mumbai Bird Race, organised on February 22, has set a record of maximum number of participants.

MUMBAI: Wildlife enthusiasts, including amateur bird-watchers and ornithologists, are busy revising the differences between a Ruddy Turnstone and a Desert Wheatear for the fifth edition of the HSBC Mumbai Bird Race to be held on Sunday.

Thousands of carcasses of Olive Ridley sea turtles are lying at the Satabhaya beach under the Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary, one of the largest rookeries of the species, in the ongoing turtle nesting season. Foul odour from dead turtles has polluted the whole of Satabhaya region, said Satabhaya sarpanch Sasmita Das.

Ahmedabad : The gen-next eco activists could be right in your home. Forest department officials are now roping in school students for conservation of sanctuaries like Nalsarovar, Thol and even Gir.

With 80 percent of their land being claimed by the forest department, residents of Kalay are more likely to be the endangered species.

Kalay-Sanguem panchayat had ambitious development projects to be undertaken in the village, but the forest department

MUMBAI: Whether it's two young women pioneering a community-led environmental revolution in the rich islands of Lakhadweep or a teacher in a remote village in Rajasthan who worked with his students towards reducing a thorny shrub, these unknown footsoldiers are doing what they can to save the environment in any little way possible.

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