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Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari had communicated this decision to Captain Brijesh Chowta, Member of Parliament, Dakshina Kannada. | Photo Credit: File photo The Union government has constituted a Joint Working Group (JWG) to assess the feasibility of building an integrated rail and road tunnel in the Shiradi Ghat section of…
Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari had communicated this decision to Captain Brijesh Chowta, Member of Parliament, Dakshina Kannada. | Photo Credit: File photo The Union government has constituted a Joint Working Group (JWG) to assess the feasibility of building an integrated rail and road tunnel in the Shiradi Ghat section of…
The new species of spider belonging to pilia genus of jumping spiders that was discovered in Madhugundi in Mudigere taluk of Chikkamagaluru. | Photo Credit: Ajith Padiyar A team of researchers exploring biodiversity in the Western Ghats has discovered a new species of spider belonging to pilia, a genus of jumping spiders, at Madhugundi village…
A representational photo of officials inspecting a landslide-prone area in Kodagu district of Karnataka. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT A landslip was reported to have taken place about five days ago at Palangala village in Virajpet taluk of Kodagu district in Karnataka. The area is bereft of human habitation. According to a statement by the…
Nilgiri Chilappan | Photo Credit: Special arrangement At the intersection of art and science, lies the realm of botanical illustration. For Suresh Ragavan, a bird artist, who has served as a botanical illustrator at the Botanical Survey of India for over 33 years, this realm has not only been a source of his bread and…
Watch | The Palghat Gap: India’s natural portal through the western ghats | Video Credit: Shikha Kumari A | Thamodharan B What if a single break in a mountain range could shape weather, wildlife, and centuries of human history? In this video, we unravel the fascinating story of the Palghat Gap—a 30-km-wide natural pass through…
Bhagwan Mahavir Wildlife Sanctuary, the biggest of the three sanctuaries in Goa. | Photo Credit: Paul Noronha Goa is often seen as a prime tourist destination rather than an ecological hotspot. A study, ‘Insights into the linkages of forest structure dynamics with ecosystem services’, published on May 4 in the journal Nature, however, evaluated the…
A file photo of Dr. K. Kasturirangan (centre) visiting Gundya in Sakaleshpur taluk of Hassan district in Karnataka. He was the author of the Kasturirangan Committee report on Western Ghats, which in 2013, identified an area of 59,940 sq. km of natural landscape of Western Ghats, spread across 6 States as ecologically sensitive. | Photo…
The Madras High Court has banned the manufacture, storage, supply, transport, sale, and distribution of 28 plastic products across the Western Ghats — from the Nilgiris to Agasthiyar Biosphere in Kanniyakumari district — and made it clear that the ban would apply to all hill stations, sanctuaries, and tiger reserves as well. A special Division…
