Conservation

The initiative is part of a greater mission, under which they envision distributing 1.3 lakh bee-boxes across four corners of the country, before November 2018.

According to the society’s website, the recognition is awarded as “an expression of the Society's esteem and appreciation for service to science”.

But whale sharks are far off from the mainstream image of sharks. Firstly, they feed on plankton--copepods, krill, fish eggs, crab larvae and small squid or fish. Contrary to popular belief, they do not threaten humans.

Found only in Odisha, Black Tigers are much less known and spoken about than the Bengal Tiger and the White Tiger.

What would quite literally be a living nightmare for scores of people, was instead a dream come true for Latika when she got the opportunity of working with the tiger population in the early nineties!

The civic body' a unique idea invites local communities and corporates based in the city to adopt and take ownership of these water bodies for a specific time period.

The Schools for River project was flagged off for the obvious lack of relevant information pertaining to rivers and complex river basin ecosystems in school curriculum.

Nurseries under Thiruvananthapuram Social Forestry Division have been delegated the responsibility of cultivating 80 lakh seedlings.

Last year, an environmental revolution was quietly spreaheaded in Kottayam district as a last bid to save Meenachil and its tributaries, Meenanthara and Kodoor, whose existence had trickled down to tiny threads of polluted water.

The pythons were caught by the villagers at the Matikhru village under the Meluri sub-division of the same district on April 15.