Category: Environment Current Affairs

Greater Scaup : Species Of Duck Sighted In Loktak Lake A rare species of duck, Greater Scaup, was recently sighted in Loktak lake in Manipur’s Bishnupur district after a gap of over 90 years. The Greater scaup is locally known as Sadangman. It is a medium-sized diving duck species that belongs to the family of […]

4 Snow Leopards Spotted In Himachal Pradesh: Snow Leopard is found in the mountainous regions of central and southern Asia. In India, it is seen in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh. The Hemis National Parkhas a good presence of Snow Leopard. They play a key role as a top […]

National Clean Air Programme: National Clean Air Campaign (NCAP), analysts found that progress has been slow and pollution has only incrementally reduced in most cities. In January 2019, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) launched the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) to prepare clean air action plans. The goal of NCAP (annual […]

Tapovan Vishnugad Hydropower Project : Order To Stop Work With residents of the Joshimath town reporting an increase in landslides and hundreds of houses at the hill town in Uttarakhand developing cracks, the district administration has issued orders to stop work on the National Thermal Power Corporation’s (NTPC) Tapovan Vishnugad hydropower project. The Tapovan Vishnugad […]

Neelakurinji Plant : Listed As a Protected Species The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF) has listed Neelakurinji (Strobilanthes kunthiana) under Schedule III of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, including it on the list of protected plants. This move is aimed at protecting the plant from being destroyed or uprooted, which has become […]

White Tufted Royal Butterfly: A team of butterfly observers and researchers have found White Tufted Royal Butterfly, a rare butterfly species at Kalliyad in Kannur district of Kerala. White Tufted Royal Butterfly is a rare species and is protected under Schedule 2 of the Wildlife Protection Act. The wingspan of the butterfly is just 32-40 […]

Increase In Blackbuck Population: A recent study conducted by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has shed light on how blackbuck in India has fared in the face of natural and human-induced challenges to their survival. Researchers found that an ancestral blackbuck population first split into two groups: the northern and the southern cluster. The […]

Scientific Assessment Of Ozone Depletion 2022: The recent United Nations report, Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2022 said that the Earth’s ozone layer is slowly recovering. The successful phasing out of banned substances as envisioned by the Montreal Protocol has set the stage for a complete recovery of the ozone layer by the 2060s, a […]

Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary : Human Animal Conflict A Human-Animal Conflict occurred where a local man was attacked by an Elephant and a herd of elephants raided a field of 500 plantains.near Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala. Human-animal conflict has become a serious wildlife management problem in Kerala in the last few years. People living on the […]

Bhitarkanika National Park : Migratory Birds Report The recent census report of birds released by the forest department in Odisha said that the number of migratory birds in Bhitarkanika National Park has risen to 1,39,959 this winter compared to last year’s count of 1,38,107 birds. The report highlighted that the number of bird counts increased […]