Category: Environment Current Affairs

Painted Leopard Gecko: A rare nocturnal reptile – a Painted Leopard Gecko – was recently spotted at Dilmili railway station in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar district, drawing the attention of the forest department. Painted Leopard Gecko is a colourful terrestrial gecko species. Scientific Name: Eublepharis pictus Eublepharis is a small genus in the lizard family Eublepharidae, which […]

Tibetan Antelope: A New Delhi court has convicted an art gallery owner for attempting to illegally export Shahtoosh shawls – made Tibetan Antelope. The Tibetan antelope or chiru (Pantholops hodgsonii) is a medium-sized antelope. Male Tibetan antelopes are significantly larger than females, and can also be readily distinguished by the presence of horns and by […]

Arachnids : Study A fossil harvestman identified using advanced imaging techniques shows that extinct arachnid lineages once lived in Europe. Arachnids are chelicerates, one of the five groups of the phylum Arthropoda, which loosely means ‘jointed foot’. These arthropods are primarily carnivorous, wingless, and have 8 legs. Like all arthropods, arachnids have segmented bodies, tough […]

Cyrtodactylus raimonaensis: New species of bent-toed gecko has been discovered in Assam and reseaechers named it as “Cyrtodactylus raimonaensis”. It is a species of bent-toed gecko. It belongs to the Cyrtodactylus genus which is amongst the largest groups of geckos worldwide. It has been found near Raimona National Park in Kokrajhar district, Assam and named […]

Millipede: A recent study has revealed the self-cleaning mechanism similar to the famous ‘lotus effect’ (the natural self-cleaning property of lotus leaves) to stay clean by green pill millipede, a species endemic to the Western Ghats. Millipedes are cylindrical or slightly flattened invertebrates. They constitute the class Diplopoda within the subphylum Myriapoda. The name ‘millipede’ […]

Dibru-Saikhowa National Park: As polling ended at the remote Laika and Dodhia polling stations inside Dibru Saikhowa National Park in upper Assam, armed forest guards, not police, escorted polling teams back to district headquarters in Tinsukia and Dibrugarh, respectively. It is located in Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts, Assam. The park is bounded by the Brahmaputra […]

Nagarjunasagar–Srisailam Tiger Reserve: The forest Department officials have stepped up plans to resume the proposed tiger enclosure project in the Nallamala–Nagarjunasagar–Srisailam Tiger Reserve (NSTR) to care for injured, abandoned or orphaned tiger cubs. Nagarjunasagar–Srisailam Tiger Reserve is located in the Nallamala hill ranges of Andhra Pradesh. It is one of the largest tiger reserves in […]

Sentinel Species: The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) declared the emperor penguin to be an endangered species. It is a species whose members’ health signals the condition of the ecosystem in which they live. They are among the first to respond to stressors in their environment, such as pollution and disease. Their response […]

Kali Tiger Reserve: The Union environment ministry proposes an Eco-Sensitive Zone around Karnataka’s Kali Tiger Reserve, spanning 663.32 sq km.It is located in the central portion of the Uttara Kannada (North Canara) district of Karnataka.The Tiger Reserve comprises two important protected areas of the region viz., Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary and Anshi National Park.These two protected […]

Indus River Dolphin: It was observed that conservation reserves, citizen science, and habitat protection gives the Indus River dolphin a fighting chance in India. The Indus River dolphin (Platanista minor) is one of the rarest mammals. It has the long, pointed nose characteristic of all river dolphins. The teeth are visible in both the upper […]