Forest Department prevents visitors taking over 2 tonnes of single-use plastic to Anamalai Tiger Reserve in a year
1 year, 1 month ago

Forest Department prevents visitors taking over 2 tonnes of single-use plastic to Anamalai Tiger Reserve in a year

The Hindu  

Proactive steps taken by the Forest Department have prevented visitors from possibly dumping more than two tonnes of single-use plastic materials in places falling under the Anamalai Tiger Reserve and popular tourism destination Valparai in the past one year. Supriya Sahu, Additional Chief Secretary, Environment, Climate Change and Forest, visited the facility at Aliyar checkpost on January 27 and instructed the staff to continue the collection of single-use plastic items from visitors, to avoid chances of them being dumped in tiger reserve areas, and Valparai. Ms. Sahu, who was accompanied by ATR Field Director S. Ramasubramanian, directed the staff to strictly enforce the ban on single-use plastic items in tiger reserve areas. The Pollachi – Valparai road passes through reserve forest areas of Pollachi and Valparai forest range of the ATR, which is home to Tamil Nadu’s State animal Nilgiri tahr and Lion-tailed macaque, both listed in the ‘endangered’ category in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

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Crack down on plastic in national parks, tiger reserves: Khandre
2 months ago

Crack down on plastic in national parks, tiger reserves: Khandre

The Hindu  

Minister for Forest, Ecology and Environment, Eshwar B. Khandre, has directed the Forest Department to crack down on the entry and use of plastic in national parks and tiger reserves. He held a meeting with department officials here on Sunday and said that the drive should be launched in two phases: in the first, large bins should be kept with …

Amrabad Tiger Reserve core area will be a plastic-free zone: Officials
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Amrabad Tiger Reserve core area will be a plastic-free zone: Officials

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Since the state government has prioritised making the Amrabad Tiger Reserve a plastic-free zone, 4,500 pieces of plastic waste have been collected near the entrance gate of Amrabad Tiger Reserve in the last 25 days. “Between July 1 and 25, we collected around 4,500 kg of single-use plastic waste from near three checkposts. Commemorating the International Tiger Day on …

Complete Ban on Plastics in Amrabad Tiger Reserve
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Complete Ban on Plastics in Amrabad Tiger Reserve

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Amrabad Tiger Reserve in Telangana, the second largest protected area for wildlife in the country, will soon go plastic-free with the government setting a deadline to achieve this status by the end of this July. Santhi Kumari, chairing a review of forest and wildlife issues at the Secretariat, also instructed the officials to expedite the process of relocating …

Tamil Nadu: Search Operation Launched for Tusker Seen Eating Plastic Waste in Viral Video
2 years, 6 months ago

Tamil Nadu: Search Operation Launched for Tusker Seen Eating Plastic Waste in Viral Video

News 18  

Officials of Mudumalai Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu have launched a search operation for a wild elephant in the Nilgiris, after the tusker was seen eating plastic waste in a viral video. This is the second such incident in the past eight months when a tusker was seen eating plastic waste inside the forest. pic.twitter.com/urBklrwTku— Rohan Premkumar September 18, 2022 …

‘No plastic zones’ declared in tiger reserve
6 years, 9 months ago

‘No plastic zones’ declared in tiger reserve

The Hindu  

No plastic zones have been declared in Amrabad Tiger Reserve to mark the World Environment Day with Beat Plastic Pollution as its theme. Under the initiative, the teams started handing over paper bags to tourist vehicles entering the tiger reserve to throw away their garbage. They would also encourage shopkeepers in the tiger reserve to replace plastic bags in their …

No takers for recycled plastic
7 years, 1 month ago

No takers for recycled plastic

The Hindu  

While R. Vasudevan, who led the team at Thiagarajar College of Engineering that developed the technology to use plastic in laying of roads, has now been honoured with the prestigious Padma Shri award, there are no takers for the technology in the district, the woman self-help group involved in producing shredded plastic said. The Swadeshi Women Self-Help Group, with ₹3.75 …

Forest department installs plastic shredder at Neelimala
13 years, 3 months ago

Forest department installs plastic shredder at Neelimala

The Hindu  

In a novel way to dispose the plastic waste accumulated at Sabarimala during the Mandalam-Makaravilakku pilgrim season, the Forest department has installed a plastic shredder at Neelimala on the Pampa-Sannidhanam path. Suresh, Assistant Conservator of Forests, the pet bottles and other plastic waste collected from the forest areas would be disposed using the plastic shredders. He said the department was …

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