Environment and Conservation News from India: MARCH 2015 (2/2)

MARCH 16 (Monday)
Metal poles make a home for pelicans: March 15
Rains lash various places across Kashmir valley: March 15
Srinagar-Jammu national highway closed this afternoon due to landslides in Ramban and Udhampur districts.
Heavy rain, snowfall in Kashmir Valley: Mar 16
Max temperature rises to 35.6 degrees C in Calcutta, highest since Oct 10 last year: Mar 16
Fire threat to forests in Odisha: March 16
Rain, snowfall intensify cold conditions in Uttarakhand: Mar 16
Cold-wave conditions revive in Himachal: Mar 16
Leopard mauls girl to death at FRI, Dehradun/Leopard declared man-eater: Mar 16
Snowstorm causes extensive damage to Chopal forests in Shimla circle: Mar 16
Tagged Turtles Return to Gahirmatha Rookery for Nesting: 16th March
An untimely hailstorm lashed Neemuch, MP on March 15 destroying major crops: March 16  














                                                                          
MARCH 17
Camp elephant gores mahout to death - Jumbo's aggression stumps officials: March 17
14 Himalayan griffons (Gyps himalayensis), rescued from poisoning: Borjhar, Mar 16
More rain lashes parts of Punjab - farmers  apprehend mounting crop losses: March 17
Unseasonal showers, hailstorm take toll on crops across the country: March 17
Cold wave unrelenting in Himachal: March 17
Heavy snow cuts off Kashmir Valley: March 17
March snow to affect fruit production in Kashmir: March 17
104 bird species were identified at Thano, a bird watchers’ paradise near Dehradun: Mar 17
Rain and moderate snowfall in the higher reaches of the Kumaon region: Pithoragarh, Mar 16
Rare Giant flying squirrel (Petaurista magnificus) rescued from Dirang Basti of W.Kameng district: Itanagar, Mar16
 It was rescued by a member of Thembang Bapu CCA Management Committee today and was released in the temperate forest of Thembang Bapu CCA.  The habitat of the species ranges from Myanmar to Nepal and it is protected as schedule II species under the Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972. Giant flying squirrels are unique among mammals in having ability to glide from tree to tree in sub-tropical and temperate forest. Some of these species quite attractively coloured, like Hodgson’s giant flying squirrel which has a rich rufous and black body colour.
Konkani names of birds set to take flight in Goa: TNN | Mar 17 
Poacher Kuttu claims to have killed 3 tigers in Vidarbha region: TNN | Mar 17
Tigers poached in the region during 2012-13 may well go beyond 25
Weather would remain mainly dry over most parts of the country and particularly over the plains of northwest and central India from Tuesday as the current Western Disturbance,  lying over north Pakistan and adjoining J & K, would move away east-northeastwards: 17th March   

MARCH 18
Centre’s move to stop rhino poaching in KNP - a comprehensive Bill amending the WP Act being introduced: March 17
Rising man-animal conflict in Odisha - 685 wild elephants died while  660 humans killed in jumbo attacks in the last 
10 years: 18th March
Heavy downpour douses forest fire in Similipal TR: March 18
Sacred groves in Kerala under threat:  March 18
 <http://www.mathrubhumi.com/english/news/kerala/sacred-groves-in-state-under-threat-report-159399.html>
 
MARCH 19
50-plus elephant with a broken tusk goes berserk in Dalma WLS: March 19
Light rain in many parts of Jharkhand, parts of Bengal  due to cyclonic formation over Chhattisgarh and Odisha: March 19
BSF seize 97 rare Asian black spotted turtles close to the India-Bangladesh border: March 18
A train moves through a snow-covered field along the Jammu-Srinagar NH after heavy snowfall at Qazigund in Anantnag district on Wednesday. The highway was closed for the third day after landslides: Mar 19 
Srinagar-Jammu NH reopened for one-way traffic traffic today, three days after rainfall and landslides forced its closure: March 19
NGOs asks Centre to stop building mega dams in NE: Imphal, March 19

MARCH 20
"World Sparrow Day": March 20
"A little cock sparrow sat on a tree, and he chirrupped and he chirrupped so merrily"
 
Houses for sparrows to revive the declining population: March 20
3172 sq km of forest areas under encroachment in Assam: March 19
Assam Governor, PB Acharya directs the State’s DGP to build a strong first line of defence to protect rhinos in Kaziranga NP - move by the Governor follows the recent war of words between him and CM: Guwahati, March 19
Sittukuruvi Kaliamman Temple in Madurai - temple intact but the sparrows are missing: Mar 19
 <http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/flora-fauna/World-Sparrow-Day-Will-sparrows-ever-return-to-this-temple-named-after-them/articleshow/46625742.cms>    
 
MARCH 21
World Water Day: theme for 2015 “Water and Sustainable Development”
World Forestry Day: Marginal improvement in the forest cover in TN: March 21
NGT restrained the Chennai Corporation from widening the Foreshore Estate Road along the Marina Beach: March 21
Cold wave abated in mid and lower hills of  Himachal: Mar 21                                                              
WWF- India, along with eBay India, have come together to work on a project that aims to light-up in the Sundarbans region. Kolkata, March 21

MARCH 22 (Sunday)
Rajendra Singh wins Stockholm Water Prize: March 22
Three critically endangered species will get financial support from Tata Capital Housing Finance to conserve them: Mar19
Union Environment Minister  today announced that a special task force will be formed for the Kaziranga NP to prevent poaching of rhinos: March 21
Over three lakh Olive Ridley  turtles have laid eggs on the beach near Rushikulya river mouth during their mass nesting that ended on Wednesday: March 22
Conservation goes hi-tech in Bandipur: Mysuru, March 22
Elephant killed, leopard dies during chase: Siliguri, March 21
Foresters today found the carcass of an elephant in Buxa TR. FD officials said poachers had killed the elephant and taken away its tusks. In Kurseong forest division, a leopard  entered a house near Belgachhi tea plantation and injured some people at dawn today. The local people chased it away, when the animal fell into a pit and injured itself and later died.
(Short takes, Sunday Statesman, March 22)

MARCH 23
Madhav Gadgil  chosen for the prestigious 2015 Tyler Prize for Env. Achievement: Mar 23
1,593 birds counted at WII: Dehradun, March 22
Wild elephants ravage crops in Ramakuppam: March 23
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Environment and Conservation News from India: MARCH 2015 (1/2)

MARCH 1, 2015 (Sunday)
Yellow Rain mystery solved: Biswabrata Goswami, March 1
Midnapore, 28 February: A rare phenomenon of yellow rainfall that occurred at Meshera village near Kolaghat Thermal Power Plant in East Midnapore on Wednesday has been put down to the mass defecation of honey-bees during their flight. A sample survey conducted by the research workers of Vidyasagar University's Botany department reveals the presence of pollens in the yellow droplets. The researchers, in their report, asserted that what was called yellow rain was actually the faeces of honeybees and not from the toxic emissions of Kolaghat Thermal Power Plant (KTPP).
Dr Amal Kuamr Mondol, professor of Botany department, VU said, the samples of yellow rain were placed under the microscope in the lab, where the researchers found the presence of pollens. At this time of the year, honeybees swallow pollens from yellow flowers and undertake mass defecation flights in order to lower their body temperature. This is done to lower the colony temperature and protect developing larvae. It also provides a natural delivery mechanism for the widespread deposit of predigested pollen. The rare phenomenon had created not only curiosity but anxiety among the local residents, who wondered if it was not acid rain.
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