MUMBAI: The BMC is carrying out soil testing work in the Tulsi lake area, which falls within the core zone of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP). Interestingly, both park officials and those in the civic body claim ignorance about it initially. No one even has any clue about who gave permission for the work, or if any such permission was granted at all.
Mumbai D Rathod, superintendent of the lion safari at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), is learning to speak Kannada. That is because two of the park
Mumbai: If it isn't bad enough that various poachers enter various national parks to kill wild animals to sell the body parts, some villagers residing in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park too have been involved in poaching the animals, including endangered species.
Mumbai A year after six forest department officials were allegedly assaulted by trustees of a temple housed in the Tungareshwar Wildlife Sanctuary, forest officials are still waiting for a verdict from the Supreme Court.
Mumbai Mumbai may not be short of vets to look after pets and livestock, but wildlife veterinarians are in short supply. With a zoo in the middle of a Rs 433-crore makeover plan, the city, which has the largest protected forest in the world within city limits, is in dire need of wildlife vets.
Mumbai The first course of chemotherapy for the 12-year-old white tigress, Renuka, at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) was completed on Tuesday, forest officials said. A week back Renuka was diagnosed with a type of skin cancer, malignant melanoma.
Mumbai: Forest dept says fire was doused in half-an-hour, no animal injured
A fresh fire broke out at the tiger safari enclosure in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) on Wednesday evening, but was extinguished soon, said D Rathod, superintendent of lion/tiger safari. About half-an-acre within the enclosure was gutted in the fire, said the forest officials.
MUMBAI: A day after a Supreme Court order stating that it will not interfere with the judgments passed by the Bombay High Court regarding encroachments in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), forest authorities are drawing up plans to remove encroachments from within the 104-sq km park. The HC had earlier directed phase-wise removal of encroachments from the park.
MUMBAI: In a significant development, the Supreme Court on Thursday said it will not interfere with the judgments passed by the Bombay high court on the removal of illegal encroachments in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park.
The apex court did not grant any stay on the demolitions but allowed the slumdwellers to approach the statutory authority with their grievances.
