Chennai, March 10 – The Tamil Nadu Forest Department has planted 20,000 mangrove seedlings across 20 hectares along the Buckingham Canal during 2025–26 as part of a major initiative to restore coastal ecosystems and enhance Chennai's resilience to climate change.Sharing details of the project...
avicennia marina
bruguiera cylindrica
buckingham canal
canal system
chennai
climate change adaptation
coastalecosystems
corporate social responsibility
ecological resilience
icici bank
mangrove restoration
mangrove seedlings
rhizophora mucronata
tamil nadu forest department
tidal flow
Mumbai, March 9 Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray urged Maharashtra Forest Minister Ganesh Naik to open Mumbai's first mangrove park at Gorai as soon as possible.Thackeray wrote to Naik that the decision to establish the park was made when he was the Minister of Environment in the...
aaditya thackeray
bird watching
coastalecosystems
district planning and development council
eco-tourism
environmental awareness
forest park
ganesh naik
gorai
maharashtra
maharashtra forest department
mangrove conservation
mangrove park
mumbai
nature information centre
Chennai, March 5 – Tamil Nadu is set to undertake an ambitious scientific effort to precisely map its coastal “blue carbon” ecosystems, including mangroves, seagrass meadows, and tidal marshlands, using drones, Artificial Intelligence, and cloud computing.The initiative aims to generate...
artificial intelligence
blue carbon
carbon sequestration
coastalecosystems
drone technology
ecosystem mapping
gis (geographic information system)
m.s. swaminathan research foundation
mangroves
microsoft
remote sensing
seagrass meadows
tamil nadu
tamil nadu forest department
tidal marshlands
Sundarbans (West Bengal), February 17. At a time when environmental protection was often seen as secondary to economic growth, Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao (KCR), the founder of Telangana and its first Chief Minister, reshaped the development narrative by placing ecology at the center of...
Berhampur (Odisha), February 17 The Rushikulya river mouth in Odisha's Ganjam district, known for the mass nesting of the endangered Olive Ridley turtles, was found to be a potential habitat for Irrawaddy dolphins, a forest officer said on Tuesday.Forest department officials have sighted a...