India lost 329 tigers in the last three years due to poaching, natural and unnatural causes, the government has said. According to data presented by Union Minister of State for Environment Ashwini Kumar Choubey in Lok Sabha on Monday, 96 tigers died in 2019, 106 in 2020 and 127 in 2021. The government said 222 elephants have died due to …
An area twice the size of what was excluded from Aarey forest within the protected buffer zone of Mumbai’s Sanjay Gandhi National Park in December 2016 will soon be part of the park. A final proposal for reserved forest declaration has been vetted and submitted to the Maharashtra government for the allocation of 328.9 hectare within Aarey as a reserved …
