Tuesday 28 April '09
This monsoon, the Bombay Society for Prevention against Cruelty to Animals hospital in Parel promises to be a haven for all four-legged and winged stranded in a deluge.Saturday 25 April '09
The Byculla zoo lost one of its young inmates, a male hippopotamus which would have been six years old in another three months, in the wee hours on Friday.Friday
24 April '09A historical gold coin, called Gold Hoan, struck during the coronation of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj at Raigad in 1674; a gold coin in the name of King Ibrahim Shah of Kashmir...Wednesday
22 April '09As the 39th anniversary of Earth Day dawns upon us, thousands of students, and government and private company employees in Mumbai will distribute nearly a lakh paper bags to their neighbourhood grocers and shopkeepers today.Tuesday
21 April '09The ‘miraculous’ drying up of three trees opposite to the Santacruz police station, right in front of a large hoarding, has city green brigade complaining of foul play.Sunday
19 April '09Avid birders flocking Sewri, the highly industrialised central suburb, to get a glimpse of ‘winged guests’ floating over the city and settling on the mudflats like a pink blanket, may be in for disappointment this year.Thursday
16 April '09In an effort to highlight environmental problems and spread awareness among the state’s leaders, Sahyog Trust, a Nagpur-based NGO...Tuesday
14 April '09India will soon have the first-ever taxidermy centre in Mumbai’s Sanjay Gandhi National Park — a workshop where carcasses of wild animals from across the country’s zoos and sanctuaries would be sent for preservation and display.Monday
6 April '09For almost 18 months after Marol residents Farzana and Noel brought home their pet German Shephard Gary, they were faced with an obstacle familiar to all pet owners: they couldn’t go on a vacation.Saturday
4 April '09It takes just an hour’s blackout in Mumbai to save 23,000 kilo watts of electricity.Thursday
2 April '09The first course of chemotherapy for the 12-year-old white tigress, Renuka, at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) was completed on Tuesday...Monday
30 March '09You can call this one a Bible for nature connoisseurs. BNHS, the 125 year-old conservation research NGO...Saturday
28 March '09Today between 8.30 pm and 9.30 pm, Mumbai will plunge into darkness. But the dark shroud will have the undertones of celebration and hope to save the planet.Friday
27 March '09A 12-year-old white tigress at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park’s tiger safari has been diagnosed as terminally ill with a rare type of skin cancer, causing much heartache to park officials.Thursday
26 March '09A large belt of mangrove forest on the western bank of the Thane Creek has received a new lease of life after the Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee suggested steps to preserve and develop it on Wednesday.Monday
23 March '09Did you know there were 70 lakes in Mumbai but 67 of them are found surrounded with vegetation? Or that 53 per cent of lakes are encroached upon by local residents...Sunday
22 March '09Christina Joseph, 14, an eighth grade student of SM Shetty High School, Powai, calls herself ‘water-conscious’: she doesn’t let water run while brushing her teeth and prefers bucket bath over shower (which wastes about three buckets of water).Thursday
19 March '09A fresh fire broke out at the tiger safari enclosure in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park on Wednesday evening, but was extinguished soon, said D Rathod, superintendent of lion/tiger safari.Wednesday
18 March '09For the past six years, Vishwas (Bhau) Dattatray Katdhare, a die-hard naturalist and a member of the Wildlife Advisory Board of Maharashtra, has been chasing just one obsession: restoring the dwindling numbers of marine turtles in the state’s coastal areas.Wednesday
18 March '09The cause, be it global warming or local climatic changes, may be difficult to pin, but bird-lovers and ornithologists across Mumbai are sure about one thing...Monday
16 March '09When 74-year-old Kulin Vora read a newspaper report about a little boy who lost his way home years ago, he had a different take on it.Friday
13 March '09In what may be an outcome of the diminishing forest cover in the city, a group of animal lovers last week rescued an injured four-horned antelope...Tuesday
10 March '09Journalist Dinesh Rajani used to love the festival of colours but has of late turned wary of it. “A day’s revelry usually ends in unbearable trauma and several visits to the dermatologist, costing me as much as Rs 10,000 in a week,” he says.Sunday
8 March '09This year’s monsoon could bring back memories of the deluge of 2005, with the Maharashtra Maritime Board predicting a rare high tide level of 5.05 metre on July 24.Thursday
5 March '09If the summer feels harsher than usual this year, it’s not without a reason: while the mercury hovers around 37°C, Mumbai has also been recording a rather high heat index — exceeding 40°C — in several areas, over the past two days.
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