Bettiah: A one-day workshop on rhinoceros conservation and rescue was organised on Saturday at Valmiki auditorium in Valmiki Tiger Reserve (VTR) in West Champaran district. The event brought together senior forest department officials and frontline personnel from all eight ranges of the reserve for specialised training.Renowned rhino expert Amit Sharma from Assam, representing WWF, and…
Desilting boosts Sukhna capacity Chandigarh: In a major intervention aimed at reviving Sukhna Lake, the Chandigarh administration has completed desilting of the lake’s regulator-end area, removing around 35,000 cubic metres of accumulated silt and increasing the water-holding capacity of the water body.The engineering department completed the exercise last week after nearly one-and-a-half months of work,…
Panaji: After the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) operated the material recovery facilities (MRF) at the industrial estate at Margao for over a decade, it has now urged the Goa Waste Management Corporation (GWMC) to take over the facility to continue its operations, as they have decided to leave the project.The MRF facility is…
