Western Ghats Archives - Green Minute

October 10, 20240

WHERE IS THE HURRY FOR 2000 MW SHARAVATI PSP IN WESTERN GHATS?

Meera Bhardwaj: The 2000 MW Sharavati Pumped Storage Project (PSP) is in high gear. Despite many clearances yet to be obtained, the Karnataka

September 19, 20240

Meera Bhardwaj: With a whopping encroachment of 2.04 lakh acres, Karnataka govt’s assertion of evicting big forest encroachers needs to be tak

April 18, 20230

Meera Bhardwaj: The whopping decrease in tiger numbers in the Western Ghats shows the rampant destruction of this World Biodiversity Hotspot.

February 2, 20230

Meera Bhardwaj: The NBWL report on Hubballi-Ankola Rail proposal seems an eyewash for giving clearance to a FRESH proposal. Wildlife activi

August 20, 20220

Green Minute News: A new species of the Freshwater Crab Genus Ghatiana has been discovered in central Western Ghats. Ghatiana dvivarna was fou

July 19, 20220

Meera Bhardwaj: The recent notification of an ESA (Eco-Sensitive Area) of 20,688 sq kms around Western Ghats in Karnataka has needlessly whipp

December 7, 20210

By Green Minute News: A new study reveals that Coffee Plantations in Western Ghats of Karnataka are home to a variety of amphibians with recording

June 9, 20210

By Meera Bhardwaj Karnataka’s proposal to build a “Concrete Road” to Kodachadri hills through the heart of the Mookambika Wildlife Sanctuary - is

March 19, 20200

Meera Bhardwaj Even as everyone heaved a big sigh of relief thinking Karnataka Government had dropped the most controversial and ecologically disa

October 31, 20190

Green Minute News Come Saturday, a people’s movement comprising various individuals and groups under the United Conservation Movement unfolds on t