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Probe against organiser for holding elephant procession in Mulshi

India, Feb. 4 -- The Pune forest department on Monday initiated an investigation against an event organiser from Urwade village, Mulshi taluka, for allegedly holding an elephant procession in Mulshi. ... Read More


Wildlife conservators see rise in primate, jackal rescue cases

India, Feb. 4 -- The Transit Treatment Centre (TTC) in Bavdhan, managed by the RESQ Charitable Trust, an NGO partner with the Maharashtra forest department, reported a significant rise in cases where ... Read More


Forest dept reprimands duo for making false claim of tiger sighting in Nashik

India, Feb. 3 -- To avoid night duty, a security guard, along with his colleague, working at the solar plant project in the Sinnar area of Nashik district made a false claim of a tiger sighting on Jan... Read More


Leopard sighted in residential area of Nigdi, rescued within two hours

India, Feb. 3 -- On Sunday, a male leopard spotted in sector 24 of Nigdi Pradhikaran in Pimpri-Chinchwad was rescued in just two hours and fifteen minutes in a joint operation conducted by the forest ... Read More


Forest officials raise issue of unauthorised leopard transportation from Gujarat

India, Feb. 2 -- In an interstate chief conservator of forest (CCF) officer-level meeting, the forest officials from the Nandurbar forest department raised an issue of unauthorised Leopard transportat... Read More


ZSI scientists find dog skin involvement in fake wild animal skin trade

India, Feb. 2 -- The Western regional centre of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) recently received cases in which dog skin is traded as wild animal skin. Within a year the centre has received at l... Read More


'Complete hill safety work in NIBM, Mohammadwadi before monsoon'

India, Jan. 30 -- Disposing the case concerning civic issues raised by the residents of the NIBM area due to encroachment of forest areas and negligence towards hill safety, the western bench of the N... Read More


NGT panel to verify PCB claims on solid waste management

India, Jan. 30 -- The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has constituted a committee consisting of officials from the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) and Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to chec... Read More


Consanguine marriages reduce genetic diversity, pose challenge in forensic DNA analysis: Study

India, Jan. 29 -- A recent study conducted by a scientist from the Central Forensic Science Laboratory, Pune, highlighted that consanguine marriages lead to hierarchical imbalance of ABO blood group a... Read More


Maha to monitor zoonotic disease among forest staff

PUNE, Jan. 28 -- The Maharashtra forest department has launched an initiative to build a real-time surveillance model for detecting zoonotic diseases among bird sanctuary workers and residents in the ... Read More