The Supreme Court has temporarily stayed an order of the Madras High Court, asking resort owners near Mudumalai Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu to vacate the land. In April, the high court had given resort owners three months to hand over the land with them to the state to pave the way for an elephant corridor in the Nilgiri mountains. The corridor would connect Mudumalai to the Sathyamangalam forests in the east of the Segur plateau.

The growth of the world's urban population is posing an ever growing challenge to provide city dwellers access to clean water and sanitation, a study released Sunday said.

Thiruvananthapuram is among the 20-odd cities selected for the campaign that aims to build environmental literacy through experiential learning and empower youth to influence change. The campaign has been launched at a time when the United Nations General Assembly has declared 2011 as the International Year of Forests.

Bangalore :World Wildlife Fund (WWF) India has launched a campaign in the City urging people to support forest conservation.

The national youth-level campaign, known as ‘Cities for Forests’, focuses on creating awareness about the link between forests and human wellbeing.

Its remarkable fight for survival however has pushed many of the big cats closer to villages and into conflict with humans.

Forcing companies to publish their carbon emissions – a pre-election promise by both coalition partners – could cost British business up to £6bn over the next decade, the government has claimed in

The number of critically endangered gharial (Gavialis gangetics) has increased to 102 from 81 in 2008, according to a recent census.

Gharial was listed as a critically endangered species in the Red Data Book of the World Conservation Union in 2007.

Polar bear cubs forced to swim long distances with their mothers as their icy Arctic habitat melts appear to have a higher mortality rate than cubs that didn't have to swim as far, a new study reports.

Polar bears hunt, feed and give birth on ice or on land, and are not naturally aquatic creatures.

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.

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