Radheshyam Bishnoi, 28, died in car accident near Jaisalmer Friday along with two other conservationists and a forest guard. Bishnoi led a team to patrol and monitor GIB habitat.
The endangered Great Indian Bustard is one of the world’s largest flying birds whose numbers now hover at just around 150 in the wild. It typically lays just one egg a year.
Hand-fed and protected, artificially incubated great Indian bustards have been raised like pets at Jaisalmer's two conservation breeding centres. But their progeny hold the key to rewilding.
Jaisalmer, with its fledgling population of captive birds & a handful in the wild, is the bird’s final talisman—and about to become its final resting place.
The large, critically endangered birds with poor eyesight prefer arid areas, where they barely survive the death trap of power lines. Authorities have eyes for energy goals.
Three ministries — Environment and Forest, New and Renewable Energy, and Power — have submitted a modification application with respect to an April 2021 SC order.
A WII survey covering 80 kms of power lines across Thar desert found 4 bustard deaths during a single year due to high-transmission wires, including some connected to wind turbines.
Hunting of Asian houbara bustard, a vulnerable species, is banned in Pakistan, but is used as something of a foreign policy instrument since Arab royals are allowed to do so.
On 19 June 2004, G Parthasarathy, India's former Ambassador to several countries, spoke at the Nani Palkhivala Memorial Lecture, examining India’s foreign policy challenges in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.
In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
Man is the largest predator. Man has caused so many species to be added to the endangered list. What is the solution to that?? Why don’t we have a law to incarcerate all who have actually caused all these species to be endangered, requiring conservation. We have eaten up habitats and forests, hunted and depleted and now have the audacity to blame the dogs???
Man is the largest predator. Man has caused so many species to be added to the endangered list. What is the solution to that?? Why don’t we have a law to incarcerate all who have actually caused all these species to be endangered, requiring conservation. We have eaten up habitats and forests, hunted and depleted and now have the audacity to blame the dogs???
How much lower do we need to fall??