At the 37th General Body meeting of Central Zoo Authority chaired by Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Shri Prakash Javadekar two new zoos the Rajgir Zoo Safari in Nalanda, Bihar and Shaheed Ashfaque Ullah Khan Prani Udyaan in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh were granted ...

Leaving their known habitat in Dhari in Gir (east) wildlife division in Amreli district, three Asiatic lions—a female and two sub-adult males, have walked around 100 km to reach Jasdan taluka of Rajkot district and have been camping in a grassland and revenue areas of Jasdan. Daily Current ...

Villagers in Vadhavan in Maharashtra’s Dahanu taluka, about 131 km from Mumbai, came out in protest against a biodiversity survey commissioned by the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) for the construction of the Vadhavan Port that received in-principle approval from the Union Cabinet in February. ...

A turtle of a vulnerable species was rescued from a fish market in Assam’s Silchar, courtesy quick thinking and action on the part of a university professor. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Indian peacock softshell turtle (Nilssonia hurum) is a species of turtle found in ...

Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), in a first-of-its-kind study, has projected that numbers of the Malayan Giant Squirrel could decline by 90% in India by 2050, and it could be extinct by then if urgent steps are not taken. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Malayan Giant ...

The Centre has set up high-level inter-ministerial Apex Committee for Implementation of Paris Agreement (AIPA) under the chairmanship of Secretary, MoEFCC to oversee the implementation of climate change targets that India has committed to under the 2015 Paris Agreement. Daily Current Affairs ...

New Zealand’s government will decide next week if a climate emergency should be declared in the country or not. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points In 2019, the Oxford dictionaries declared “climate emergency” to be the word of the year, a word that reflects “the ethos, mood, or ...

Recently, Karnataka has announced that it would declassify 6.64 lakh hectares (nearly 67%) of the 9.94 lakh hectares of deemed forests in the state and hand it over to Revenue authorities. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points While the concept of deemed forests has not been clearly ...

The isolated UK Overseas Territory of Tristan da Cunha, which is home to the world’s most remote human settlement, declared the largest fully protected marine reserves in the Atlantic Ocean at 687,000 square kilometres. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points This will close over 90 ...

As 28-year-old filmmaker, Varchasva Dhunta, steered his camera through a vast crowd cheering “Jungle jyaada jaroori hai” (forest is more important), several demonstrators hugged the Thano forest trees along Dehradun’s Jolly Grant Airport Road, enacting the famous “Chipko Aandolan.” Daily ...