2,000 turtle eggs find their way to hatcheries
Officials expect survival rate of more than 90 per cent A month after launching a sea turtle conservation project under Tamil Nadu Biodiversity Conservation and Greening Project, Gulf of Mannar Marine
Gulf Of Mannar Marine NP
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Growth of sponges around nylon rope and E-waste in the coastal water of Veedhalai, Gulf of Mannar, India
<p>Marine litter pollution is common all around the marine and coastal environments. This can affect the normal life of marine fauna as entanglement, over growth of sessile organisms, consumption of micro
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Tamil Nadu moves Supreme Court over Sethusamudram
With Lok Sabha elections months away, Tamil Nadu's AIADMK government has moved the Supreme Court seeking scrapping of the Rs 25,000 crore Sethusamudram shipping channel project saying it would kill the
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Should Sethusamudram Project get the go ahead?
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Conservation of Dugong dugon (sea cow) in Gulf of Mannar
<p>Dugong dugon (dugongs) is probably one of the few living marine mammals surviving in pockets around the Indian Ocean to the western part of the Pacific Ocean. These marine mammals are herbivores which
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Study shows serious threat to coral reef colonies, mangrove forests in Palk Bay
A recent study taken up by a team of researchers from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Chennai, brought to light the serious threat of extinction the coral reef colonies and mangrove forests in the Palk Bay are facing. At present, only two per cent of the coral reefs survive in the area. Global warming, siltation, release of untreated raw sewage into the water bodies and overgrowth of algae were stated to be the three important reasons for the possible disappearance of coral colonies and its associated organisms from the Palk Bay area.
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TN government to take over GOMBRT
The State Government will be taking over the Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve Trust from January 1, 2013. The Trust is a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) project initiated in the year 2000
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Notice to Centre on pleas against Kudankulam plant
Petitions challenge TNPCB and AERB orders The Madras High Court on Thursday ordered notice to the Central government on two new writ petitions against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) — one seeking to quash a Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB)’s order of July 23 prescribing the tolerance limit of the project’s trade effluent and the other seeking to declare the AERB’s clearance for Initial Fuel Loading (IFL) as null and void.
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Community concerns
A two-day workshop, titled “Fishery-dependent Livelihoods, Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity: The Case of Marine and Coastal Protected Areas in India”, was held in New Delhi during 1-2 March
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Unclear over nuclear
Will the protests against the Koodankulam project force the government to pause and rethink its nuclear power plans? (Editorial)