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
Bush fires in various parts of the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve and its surroundings: March 23

MARCH 24
Captive elephant attacks spurs Alappuzha District Administration to strengthen norms: Mar 24

MARCH 25
'Sarsika model vital for tiger conservation' - IG of Forests, NTCA: Mysuru, March 25
Killer bear shot dead near Kotagiri: March 25
NTCA to Extend Similipal Plan of e-patrolling  to All Tiger Reserves: 25th March
Illegal  eviction of Adivasis from Forests in AP, Telangana continue: 25th March
Let communities manage water: Rajendra Singh: March 25

MARCH 26
Elephants on the Line (EOL), a programme launched last year to mitigate the man-elephant conflict in the villages bordering India and Bhutan has been going on in Udalguri district, Assam: March 25
Enumerators at the ongoing rhino census at Kaziranga NP are using GPS devices fitted with camera to create an image database of the endangered rhinos: March 25
Rhino census (two day) in Kaziranga NP on Wednesday
IHBT has started the plantation of Chinese ginseng in Lahaul: March 25

     
 Leopards  being sighted on the FRI campus frequently: March 25
 
MARCH 27
Madras High Court restrains work on INO project pending environmental clearance: March 27
Run to save Mountain Lakes: March 27   

Renuka Lake in Sirmaur district

MARCH 28
Earth Hour: Saturday, March 28
The 60-minute annual campaign organised by the conservation group WWF encourages citizens, communities, businesses and organisations to switch the lights off for an hour from 8.30 p.m. to highlight the plight of planet Earth. Earth Hour’s goal is to raise awareness on the need for sustainable energy use, and this year also to demand action to halt planet-harming climate change.U.N. member-states are  to sign an ambitious pact in Paris in December to limit galloping global warming.
Leopards declining in Assam, no census after 2000: March 27
Nesting grounds of Olive Ridley turtles at Gahirmatha facing problems because of sea erosion:Paradip, March 27
Cyclonic circulation hovering over Bihar-Jharkhand triggers rainfall across Jharkhand: March 27
Black panther 'run over' near Satara: TNN | Mar 28
New jumping spider with mating plug discovered in WG: March 27
Narmada (Indira Sagar Project)  reaches Barwani after flowing for 200 kms: March 28

MARCH 29  (Sunday)
KNP rhino population estimation concludes: March 28
The estimated figure is 2,401 plus/minus 100 - adult male population was 663, adult female 802 and unsexed 186; balance made up of sub-adults, juveniles and calves.
Heavy rains in Kashmir: Srinagar, Mar 29
Leopard scare in Garhi Cantt: Mar 29
Thunderstorm wreaks havoc in many parts of Jharkhand: March 29
Thunderstorm  accompanied by gusty wind and rain and  hailstorm in some places on Friday evening claimed 10 lives and caused loss to property—livestock and crop.
Villagers protest against INO project: March 29

MARCH 30
Protest against ban on night traffic through wildlife reserves: March 30
Flood alert sounded as Jhelum crosses 16 feet mark in Srinagar: March 29

 Seven months after the devastating floods (Sep 2014), Kashmir was today staring at another deluge following incessant rains with River Jhelum in spate at several places in the Valley. Heavy rains over the past 36 hours have resulted in River Jhelum flowing above the flood alert mark at several places including Sangam in Anantnag district and Ram Munshi Bagh in the city. The water level in Jhelum at Sangam at 1100 hours was 22.35 feet, rising above the flood mark of 21 feet. At Ram Munshi Bagh the water level was 19.40 feet. The flood mark here is 18 feet. The heavy downpour has caused fresh landslides along the 294-km Srinagar-Jammu NH, which remained closed for the third straight day today. It stopped raining in the state since Monday morning and the weather office has said there would be decrease in precipitation. But, another Western Disturbance is likely to hit the state on April 3 although it would not be so active as the present one that resulted in heavy rainfall during the last three days.
Unseasonal rain and hailstorm  that lashed parts of Jharkhand over the weekend causes extensive damage to standing crops: March 29
Morel (guchhi) mushroom spotted in Kullu: Mar 30
Stormy conditions back in Himachal - mid and lower hills  lashed by rain and thunderstorm, while high-altitude tribal areas receive another spell of fresh snowfall: March 29
Rain, snow lash Uttarakhand: Mar 30
Drone-based surveillance likely in Sahyadri Tiger Reserve: TNN | Mar 30,
Sunderbans sea level to rise 3-8 mm per year: World Bank report: PTI | Mar 30

March 31  (Tuesday)
Incessant rain continues to create havoc in the Jammu region, NH closed for 3rd day: March 30
Kashmir spared another flood — for now: Srinagar, Mar 31 (PTI)
Hailstorm in Shimla, tribal areas receive snow: Mar 31
NTPC set to commission the 800 MW Kol Dam on the Sutlej river in Bilaspur: Mar 31
Intense cold wave sweeping Uttarakhand showed no signs of relenting; Dehradun receives excess rainfall in March: March 30
Leopard kills man at Raiwala; another animal sighted at Garhi Cantt: Mar 31
Calcutta has a thundershower on Monday evening: March 31
Two sets of cumulonimbus clouds combined to trigger the season’s second thundershower that brought about 23mm of rainfall in just over half an hour from around 7 p.m. The city had its last thundershower almost a month ago, on March 4, when 29mm of rainfall had been recorded.
Sporadic showers on Monday in Jharkhand: March 31
NDMA carries out blasts to clear Phutkal River blockage: March 30
Tickell's Blue Flycatcher can be seen in Cauvery WLS, Nandi hills, and the Bannerghatta area: Mar 31

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