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ZSI to study small animal species in western Indian region
The study is conducted in three wildlife sanctuaries, including one in Maharashtra, and the centre plans to expand it by adding three more sanctuaries
Published on Feb 06, 2025 06:42 AM IST
India begins geotagging horsheshoe crabs
ZSI and Odisha forest department tag horseshoe crabs to study their population and habitat.
Updated on Aug 21, 2024 06:31 AM IST
Debabrata Mohanty, Bhubaneswar
Odisha starts tagging of horseshoe crabs to track their population, habitat
India is home to two species of horseshoe crabs — Tachypleus gigas and Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda (mangrove).
Updated on Aug 20, 2024 01:44 PM IST
Debabrata Mohanty
ZSI discovered 14 new animal species in Maha in 2023
The ZSI is a premier research institute functioning under the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change
Updated on Jul 11, 2024 07:04 AM IST
In biodiversity push, India prepares first list of 100k faunal species
India becomes the first country to release a checklist of its entire fauna, covering 104,561 species.
Updated on Jul 01, 2024 06:08 AM IST
HT Correspondent, New Delhi
Zoological Survey of India releases fauna checklist of over 1 lakh species
Union environment minister Bhupender Yadav said India is the first country to prepare such a checklist
Published on Jun 30, 2024 08:21 PM IST
Newly discovered beetle species from Pune has significance in forensic science
The species was discovered by the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Pune region, and the study on this discovery was published recently on April 12 in the New Zealand-based peer-reviewed international journal Zootaxa
Updated on Apr 19, 2024 07:38 AM IST
Zoological Survey of India gets ‘in-principle’ approval to establish Western Ghat Faunal Repository in Pune
The WRC has also proposed to the central government that a Wildlife Forensic Laboratory be established at WRC, Pune and the same is under active consideration by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change
Updated on Feb 25, 2024 08:22 AM IST
Zoological Survey of India to monitor impact of Bandra-Versova Sea Link on marine life
The ZSI will monitor this throughout the construction period and for five years after the civil works are completed, according to conditions imposed on the project by the Union environment ministry earlier this month.
Updated on May 30, 2023 01:16 AM IST
Prayag Arora-Desai
Researchers found new frog species in Meghalaya's Siju cave
This is the second time that a frog was discovered from a cave in India, the first been in 2014 from a cave in Tamil Nadu.
Published on Apr 11, 2023 12:00 PM IST
PTI | | Posted by Shobhit Gupta
NGT panel to review green nod for Greater Nicobar project
NGT acknowledged that part of the project is in CRZ 1a areas where construction of a port is prohibited
Updated on Apr 07, 2023 12:02 AM IST
Jayashree Nandi
Discovery of new animal, plant species from India dip due to Covid-19 pandemic
Even though on an average the BSI discovers around 350 plant species, starting from flowering plants to ferns, fungi and algae, this year this has come down to around 250, a BSI scientist said. Around 180 are new to science, while the rest have never been reported from India earlier.
Updated on Aug 09, 2021 02:20 AM IST
Joydeep Thakur, Hindustan Times, Kolkata