A new study by IISER highlights that hill slopes in Western Ghats highly threatened by encroachments are playing crucial role ...

TIRUNELVELI: Alleging that the forest department is preventing the Vikramasingapuram municipality administration from providing them with basic amenities, including drinking water, toilets and ...

"About 36 tribal families were relocated from the Western Ghats to Thalaiyanai in 2010-11 with the promise of houses. However, the government did not keep its promise," said the residents.

Several MLAs raised concern about crops being destroyed by elephants and wild boars, especially in areas close to the Western Ghats. They also pointed to the increasing population of peacocks on ...

Valparai is a great place for trekking in the Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu state ... the beautiful panoramic view over the entire Western Ghats from its summit justifies all your fatigue ...

particularly in the Western Ghats and the Karnataka-Kerala-Tamil Nadu tri-junction. Headquartered at Karkala in Udupi district, the ANF operates with over 500 personnel across 15 camps.

Sajin Kumar K.S, co-author of the study and Assistant Professor of Geology at the University of Kerala, explains that by creating detailed vulnerability maps ... along the Western Ghats in ...

constituted a Special Investigation Team comprising of two IPS officers to enquire into large levels of illegal mining that has been happening near the reserve forests of Western Ghats.

At the same time, Eastern Ghats, Tamil Nadu Plateau, and Deccan (Karnataka ... hot sub-humid (dry) ecoregion, and Western Plain, Kachchh, and part of Kathiwara Peninsula, recording over 200% increase ...

Four in 10 species inhabiting inland water ecosystems in the Western Ghats face the threat of extinction, conservation scientists said on Wednesday after a worldwide assessment covering habitats ...

Mangaluru: An environmental activist expressed shock over the early onset of forest fires in Western Ghats, despite the region receiving heavy rainfall last year. Instances of forest fires were ...

Cilantica agasthyaensisis one of the new species included in a new genus of tarantulas from the Western Ghats. | Zeeshan Mirza via Mongabay A researcher described four new species of tarantulas ...