DECEMBER -
* Government Of India Has Approved a Proposal To Set Up Cheetah Conservation Breeding Center In Banni Grassland, Kutch, Gujarat.
* Female Cheetah Veera Released In Nayagaon Forest Area In Kuno National Park.
* Maharashtra State Has Registered Highest Death Of Tigers (202) In 2023 Surpassing Madhya Pradesh.
AWARD -
* Pilibhit Tiger Reserves Received The Kailash Sankhala Award For Transformative Sustainable Tourism Potential.
At 6th Edition Of Tof Tigers India Wildlife Tourism AWARD.
* Bagh Mitra Application Was Launched With The Collaboration Of World Wildlife Foundation INDIA,.
2024 -
JANUARY -
AWARDS -
* IFS Jagdish S Bakan, The Director Of The Gulf Of Mannar Biosphere Reserves, First INDIAN To Receive The Prestigious UNESCO Michel Batisse Award 2023 For Best Management In Biosphere.
* Pench Tiger Reserves, Maharashtra Became The First International Dark Sky Park Of India.
* India's First Centrally Funded Cow Sanctuary Has Been Built in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh.
* Himalayan Wolf Has Been Classified As Vulnerable On The IUCN Red List.
* The 10th Cheetah Shaurya Died in Kuno National Park.
* A Rare Golden Tiger spotted In Kaziranga National Park, Assam
* Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav Has Released India's First Snow Leopard Population Assessment, 718 Snow Leopards are Counted.
* Kyrgyzstan Has Declared Snow Leopard As It's National Symbol.
* The Greater One Horned Rhinoceros Has Seen In Central Assam's Laokhowa- Burachapori Wildlife Sanctuary After 40 Years.
* India's Oldest Sloth Bear BABLU Passed Away In Bhopal Zoo, Madhya Pradesh.
NEW SPECIES -
* A New Plant Species Named POLYGONUM CHATURBHUJANAM Discovered In Maharashtra's Pench Tiger Reserves.
* Researchers In Tamilnadu Srivilliputhur Tiger Reserves In Megamalai Have Discovered A New Species Of Silverline Butterfly Named - CIGARITIS MEGHAMALAIENSIS.
* Researchers From The National Centre For Biological Sciences ( NCBS) Find a New Butterfly Species In Karnataka's Brahmagiri Wildlife Sanctuary, Kodagu.
( Named Conjoined Silverline) Cigaritis Conjuncta).
* Researchers From Mizoram University Have Discovered a New Species Of Coral Snake Named SINOMICRURUS GOREI
* Scientists Discovered A New Species Of Lizard (Kangaroo Lizard) In Western Ghats
INAUGURATION -
* Andaman And Nicobar Island LG Admiral D K Joshi Inaugurated The Online Police Station For Forest Department In The Island.
* Chandaka Elephant Sanctuary, Bhubaneswar Odisha Has Inaugurated Eastern India's First Night Safari In The District.
FEBRUARY -
NEW ADDED -
* Union Minister Bhupendra Yadav Announced 5 More Wetlands Will Add To Ramsar Sites, Total 80 Ramsar Sites In India, Will Declared On The Eve Of WORLD Wetlands Day on 2nd FEBRUARY 2024.
* Magadi Kere Conservation Reserves (Karnataka)
* Ankasamudra Bird Conservation Reserves ) Karnataka)
* Aghanashini Estuary (Karnataka)
* Karaivetti Bird Sanctuary (Tamilnadu)
* Longwood Shola Reserves Forest ( Tamilnadu)
* In The First Snow Leopard Census - TOTAL 718
477 Snow Leopards In Ladakh
124 Snow Leopards In Uttarakhand
51 Snow Leopards In Himachal Pradesh
36 Snow Leopard In Arunachal Pradesh
21 Snow Leopard In Sikkim
09 Snow Leopard In Jammu And Kashmir
NEW SPECIES/ RARE SPECIES -
* DUSTED APOLLO ( Parnassius Stenosemus) a Rare High Altitude Butterfly Has Been Slighted First Time In Himachal Pradesh.
* Researchers Have Found a New Species Of Burrowing Frog Named SPHAEROTHECA VARSHAABHU At Budumanhali Bengaluru, Karnataka.
* Researchers From KFRI Botanical Survey Of India And University Of Hyderabad Have Discovered A Fungus Species, TRICHOGLOSSUM SYAMVISWANATHII In Kerala.
* Researchers Have Discovered A New Species Of Damselfly At The Ponmudi Hills In Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala (Cliffside Bamboo tail).
NEW WILDLIFE SANCTUARY -
* Thanthai Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary is Become Tamilnadu's 18th Wildlife Sanctuary.
* Rajasthan State Government Has Notified Ramgarh Visdhari Wildlife Sanctuary As New Tiger Reserves.
OBSERVES DAY -
* First Ever UN's International Day Of The Arabian Leopard Was Observed On 10th February 2024,
HOST -
* Samarkand, Uzbekistan Host The 14th Meeting Of The Conference Of Parties COP 14 From 12th to 17th February 2024. ( Convention On Migratory Species)
* Tamilnadu State Government Has Setting Up The FIRST of its kind Dedicated Fund for Species Conservation Fund.
AWARDS -
* Eshwar Kavali, Amrabad Tiger Reserve, Telengana Has Recived The Prestigious BEST ALL ROUND WILDLIFER Award By Wildlife Institute Of India ( WII).
MOU SIGNED -
* Arunachal Pradesh Signed MoU With National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) For Creation Of Three STPF In 3 Tiger Reserves.
TAG-
* The Gupteswar Forest In Koraput District Of Odisha Gets The Biodiversity Heritage Tag. (350 Hectares Of Forest Consisting Of 608 Faunal Species)
MARCH -
* Cabinet Approved The Establishment Of International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA) With Estimate 150 Crores For Year Of Five Years Period Till 2027/28.
* 13,874 Leopards In India, 1.08% Growths As Compared To Previous Census (2018)
* 125 Years Old Galapagos Giant Male Tortoise, Aged 125 Years approximately Passed Away At Nehru Zoological Park, Hyderabad.
NEW SPECIES -
* Scientists From Zoological Survey Of India (ZSI) Has Discovered A New Species Of Head Shield Sea Slug In The Bay Of Bengal And Odisha Boarder, Named After President Droupadi Murmu.
* A New Flowering Plant Found In Arunachal Pradesh Is Named After Hyderabad Scientist G Narahari Sastry (Former CSIR Director Of North East Institute Of Science And Technology, Jorhat ,Assam)
Named - BEGONIA NARAHARI))))
* Researchers From Centre For Animal Taxonomy And Ecology, Christ College, Irinjalakuda Discovered The 4 New Species Of Spiders In Western Ghats In Tamilnadu And Kerala.
a) INDOPADILLA KANNIYAKUMARI, Found In Grassland Of Uper Victory Estate, Kanyakumari.
b) Tetragnatha Jaculator
c) Tetragnatha Lauta
d) Tetragnatha Serra
* Dr Krishna Chowlu And Her Scientific Team Has Discovered A New Plant Species Belongings To The Genus Cyrtandromoea At West Kameng District Of Arunachal Pradesh.
* Researchers Have Discovered A New Species Of Deep Sea Isopad In Kerala Coast.
It Belongs To Genus Brucethoa
Named After ISRO - Brucethoa ISRO)
BOOK -
* Zoological Survey Of India (ZSI) Has Published A Book Titled AN Illustrated Guide To The Lepidoptera Of India: Taxonomic Procedure, Family Characters, Diversity AND Distribution
APRIL -
APPOINTMENTS -
* Astrid Schomaker Has Been Appointed As The 8th Executive Secretary Of The Convention On Biological Diversity.
FIRST KIND OF -
* First Ever Synchronized Census Of Endangered Nilgiri Tahr To Starts In April 29tn In Tamilnadu.
SUMMIT -
First International Steering Committee Meeting Of The International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA) Held On 16th April 2024 In Delhi.
( Theme 2024 - The Conservation Of 7 Big Cats, Including Tiger, Lion, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Puma, Jaguar, Cheetah)
( IBCA HQ - Delhi, India, ESTD - APRIL 2023)
NEW PLANT SPECIES -
* Botanical Survey Of India (BSI) Team Howrah, Lead By Scientist Dr Kanad Das Discovered Five New Species Of Wild Mushrooms In Uttarakhand.
a) PHYLLOPORUS SMITHII Sp. Nov.
b) PROPHYRELLUS UTTARAKHANDAE sp. Nov.
c) RETIBOLETUS PSEUDOATER sp.nov.
d) PHYLLOPORUS HIMALAYANUS sp. Nov.
e) LECCINELLUM Bothii sp. Nov.
NEW SPECIES -
* A New Species Of Tiger Cat Has Been Discovered In Brazil.
( Researchers Have Included This Tiger Cat In The Clouded Tiger Cat ( LEOPARDUS PARDINOIDES)
* Scientist Doctor Aparna Sureshchandra Kalawate Discovered A New Species Of Beetles, Named OMORGUS (AFROMORGUS) MORESHWAR After Lord Ganpati Temple, In Morgaon Village.
* Scientists Have Discovered a New Ant Species At The Pilbara Region Of North Western Australia.
( Named - Leptanilla Voldemort) a Villain Character In Harry Porter
* Wildlife Researchers At Kaziranga National Park, Assam Recently Spotted Two New Species Of Binturong, The Largest Civet Species ( ARCTICITIS BINTURONG) And Small Clawed Otter ( Aonyx Cinereus).
* Researchers Have Discovered A New Species Of Partially Blind Scorpion Named TROGLOTAYOSICUS AKAIDO, In Amazon Rainforest.
4) Srilankan Scientists Have Discovered Three New Species Of Luminescent Bees In Canada.
* Scientists Have Discovered Two New Australian Native Mammal, The New Species Are
a) Western Delicate Mouse ( Pseudomys Pilbarensis)
b) Eastern Delicate Mouse ( Pseudomys Mimulus) In Australia.
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