Environment / Nagaland

Kohima, March 7: Nagaland has planned captive breeding of mithun, the wild bison found in the hilly reaches of the Northeast, and set up state-of-the-art abattoirs to process and package the meat for marketing.

Announcing the successful experiments on captive breeding of mithuns, chief minister Neiphiu Rio said his government was looking into the huge investment and market potential of bison meat. Successful experiments were also conducted in cattle rearing, piggery and poultry farming, he said. The chief minister said the state has abundant potential in floriculture, organic farming and...

Kohima, Feb. 16: Villagers in a Nagaland hamlet have advertised for hired hunters to slaughter sinister ?jackals? even as wildlife activists claim that the menacing animals might not be jackals at all.

Sendenyu village in Kohima district has announced a reward of Rs 1,000 for every jackal killed. The villagers alleged that groups of eight to 10 of these ?jackals? had posed threat to other endangered animals in the ?wildlife protected area? within the village.

Several villages in Nagaland have wildlife protection parks ? Sendenyu having seven square km of such area. The village is also said to...

New Delhi, Feb. 5: Elephant conservation in the Northeast is set to get a boost with the decision to establish a few more reserves in the region. While the proposals for two ? Intanki in Nagaland and Deomali in Arunachal Pradesh ? are being prepared and are expected to be completed within six months, plans are on to determine the feasibility of similar schemes in other states.

Explaining the rationale behind the decision, Project Elephant director S.S. Bist said, ?The protected area system does not work for elephants as they require a lot of space to move about. The Northeast has an advantage...

DIPHU, May 26? The Forest staff and Home Guards under Manja Forest Range office have arrested five Nagalanad police personnel for illegally carrying two trucks of teak wood valued at over Rs 4 lakh around 3.30 am today. The Nagaland police personnel led by Leena Ao, ASI, Pangti Ao, Havildar, Longkhush Lotha, constable, Kishethu Sema and Bijoy Mommi (both driver) and Bharat Dimasa, a local youth of Borjan under Manja police outpost were smuggling the wood from Borjan towards Dimapur. It is gathered that the strong vigil of the Home Guards personnel on duty at Forest check gate no 2 led by...

JAKHAMA (Nagaland), March 31 — After the introduction of “Nagaland Environment Protection and Economic Development through People’s Action (NEPED)” in 1995, the forest coverage in Nagaland has increased remarkably. NEPED is an agroforestry project funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) through the Indo-Canada Environment Facility (ICEF). It can be mentioned here that the agroforestry system is an alternative to jhum cultivation.

The benefits of agroforestry are to increase the land productivity, including biomass and food, increasing the arable land, promoting farmers...

KOHIMA, May 2 ? In the face of stiff opposition from certain NGOs and teachers, Nagaland University today clarified that the ?Naga genome project? aims at determining the genetic diversity within Naga tribes and the study has been carried out as per norms of the Varsity Act, reports PTI.

The MoU signed between the Zoology department of the University and the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) for a project on Naga genetic diversity had been approved by the Registrar, a university release said. The MoU signed between CCMB director, Dr Lalji Singh, and head of Zoology deportment...

GUWAHATI, April 5: A 6 million Nagaland Environment Protection and Economic Development Project (NEPED) jointly funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) through the India-Canada Environment Facility and International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is likely to boost up sustainable management of the natural resource base of the state for the benefit of the people. The NEPED project which is coordinated by the New Delhi office of IDRC under its South Asia Research Programme has been identified as a special project in India. The Government of Nagaland is the implementing...

KOHIMA, March 5: Nagaland Forests Minister TR Zeliang has urged the Centre to revive the Supreme Court's order restricting commercial exploitation of forests in the State in view of special status enshrined in the Constitution, reports PTI. The Apex Court has restricted timber business in the Northeastern States since 1996. However, a few mills are being allowed to recommence their activity with the permission from a High Power Committee (HPC), constituted by the Ministry of Forests and Environment, after the Supreme Court relaxed the earlier restrictions in an interim order last year. "The...

KOHIMA, August 1: The 24 MW Likhimro hydel power project in the Tuensang district of Nagaland is likely to be commissioned by March next year, according to Nagaland power minister K Therie. The minister said during the lean season, only one turbine out of three with eight MW, will able to generate 8 MW. The state government is contemplating to set up a 24 MW thermal power project at Dimapur at an estimated cost of Rs 88 crore. The thermal project will run by furnace oil to be carried from the Numaligarh refinery in Golaghat district of Assam. So far, a Calcutta-based company has expressed...