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KFRI's Plan To Complement Haritha Keralam

Popular singer Sona Mohapatra has slammed Manikarnika actor Kangana Ranaut by calling her a 'monster'.

The Chandigarh Bird Club has detected 620 migratory birds of 33 different species in its water fowl census and species count at Sukhna Lake, forest and Nagar Van on Monday, a rise of 48% than last year. In 2018, the count was 417 of 31 different species.

The brightly-coloured Malabar Trogon bird has been recently spotted in the forested areas of the Western Ghats, which form a part of the Mhadei wildlife sanctuary.

Work on the second phase of the Marine Drive makeover is likely to start soon as the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority has initiated the process of inviting tenders for the project.

Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) is expected to issue tenders for the Marine drive beautification project by July 2014.

The Union ministry of environment and forests, Bombay Natural History Society, World Wildlife Fund, India, and Wetlands International, a non-governmental organisation, have urged range states — India, China and Bhutan — to cooperate for the conservation of the black-necked crane, a unique species found in the Himalayan high-altitude wetlands.

While people are still finding it hard to digest the news of AR Rahman confessing of not getting much work in Bollywood, on the other hand, Sona Mohapatra in her series of recent tweets said that her husband Ram Sampath too was targeted by ‘illiterate’ gang.

Lateritic landscapes, wasteland which are rich in biodiversity and indiscriminate mining could lead to destruction of the unique eco system of these areas, says a study conducted by the scientists of the Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI), Peechi.

The next time you trek into the forests in Dahod or Panchmahal, watch out for this new species of gecko that has been discovered by four wildlife researchers. The recently discovered species of naked-toed gecko (Cyrtopodion) has been named as Cyrtopodion Vindhya as the researchers took its first samples from the Vindhya hill ranges.

The virus causing the deadly Crimea Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) has been found "in high quantities" from ticks collected from parts of Ahmedabad. Ticks infected don't die of it unlike humans but actually facilitate their transmission.