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Jan 19, 2021

ZSI Starts Tagging Olive Ridleys to Track Migration Path

The Zoological Survey of India has started tagging endangered olive Ridley to track their migration path in the off-shore waters of Odisha.
The ZSI scientists took six turtles floating in the deep water of the Bay of Bengal and attached the tags made of aluminium before releasing them back in the sea.
Tags were attached to six including four female and two male turtles. Basic information such as their weight and length was recorded by the researchers.
According to Amlan Nayak, Divisional Forest Officer of Berhampur, ZSI would tag 30,000 turtles to know where they come from and go to.
The Rushikulya beach is one of the largest mass nesting sites for sea turtles where 3,23,062 were enumerated last year.

Jan 18, 2021

Union Jal Shakti Ministry Intervenes to Preserve Dolphins

The Union Jal Shakti Ministry has taken up the issue of preservation of dolphins in the Ganges with the authorities in Uttar Pradesh.
The ministry's move comes in the wake of brutal killing of a dolphin, which is an endangered species, on the New Year's Eve in Pratapgarh district of Uttar Pradesh.
The National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), under the Union Jal Shakti Ministry, has taken up the killing of the freshwater dolphin with the authorities in Pratapgarh to ensure that they are kept out of harm's way in future.
Besides, it has conveyed an advisory to the District Administration, the Ganga Doors – Ganga Prahrees — who are volunteers under the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS) programme, and the Wildlife Institute of India to conduct an intensive awareness campaign to sensitise and prevent such inhuman attack on country's rich biodiversity.

Jan 12, 2021

Tirthan sanctuary, Great Himalayan National Park Best Performers among Protected Areas

Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Prakash Javadekar released Management Effectiveness Evaluation (MEE) of 146 national parks and wildlife sanctuaries in the country.
India has a network of 903 Protected Areas covering about 5 per cent of its total geographic area of the country. According to the survey, Tirthan Wildlife Sanctuary and Great Himalayan National Park in Himachal Pradesh have performed the best among the surveyed protected areas.
The Turtle Wildlife Sanctuary in Uttar Pradesh was the worst performer in the survey.
Management Effectiveness Evaluation of Protected Areas has emerged as a key tool that is increasingly being used by governments and international bodies to understand strengths and weaknesses of the protected area management systems.

Jan 07, 2021

Chengalpattu Records Heaviest Single-day Rainfall in over a Century

Heavy rainfall battered Tamil Nadu with Chengalpattu district recording 21 cm of rainfall, the heaviest single-day rainfall for January in over a century. Earlier, the adjoining district of Chennai had recorded its highest single-day rainfall in this month on January 15, 1915 at 21.5 cm.
This was recorded in Kelambakkam station that comes under Chengalpattu district.

Jan 06, 2021

GSI Draws Up Strategic Plan to Step up Exploration

With the demand for rare earth elements (REE) increasing significantly, the Geological Survey of India (GSI) has drawn up a strategic plan for enhancing REE exploration in India that outlines a roadmap for the next five years.
REEs are a group of seventeen metals that are used in a wide range of critical products enabling many emerging green energy technologies, high tech applications and defence systems. This includes electronics, medical instrumentation, renewable energy, alloys, high strength magnets, ceremics, hybrid vehicles, lasers, nuclear science, biofuels and rechargeable batteries.
At present, India obtains its REE raw materials from foreign sources like Canada, Russia and China. According to available information, China is the world's largest producer or REEs, with an output of 132,000 metric tonnes in 2019, followed by the Unites States with 26,000 metric tones. India produced 3,000 metric tonnes that year.
GSI will also focus its exploration efforts on various potential geological environments and areas which warrant accelerated exploration efforts. Concentration of REE elements will also be studied in the suitable bauxite deposits having a genetic linkage with REE rich segments.

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