WILDLIFE & ENVIRONMENT CA IN APRIL 2025

* KASAMPATTY Sacred Grove In Dindigul Declared Tamilnadu's 2nd Biodiversity Heritage Site. 

* Zoological Survey Of India (ZSI) Unveiled The North Bengal Black Flies Behind River Blindness Of Human.

* Odisha Government Notified Similpal National Park With An Area Of 845.70 Sq km (107th National Park Of India) 

* Known For Melanistic Tiger.

* BHITARKANIKA NATIONAL PARK - 16TH SEPTEMBER 1998 

* SIMILPAL NATIONAL PARK - 2025 

* SIMILPAL BECAME ODISHA SECOND NATIONAL PARK DECLARED.

* INDIA'S 107TH NATIONAL PARK.

 * Karnataka State Government To Make First Sanctuary For Haynes in Belghavi.

* A New Global Initiative Has Launched Called REVIVE OUR OCEAN On 24th April 2025 ( With A Goal To Scale Up Effective - Community Lead Marine Protected Areas) Through Local Action.

* Nepal Census The Snow Leopards In Country (Nearly 397 Snow Leopards) 

NEW SPEICES - 

* A Group Of Researchers Have Discovered a New Species Of DAMSELFLY In The Wayanad Landscape In Western Ghats, Kerala. 

(NAMED -  EUPHAEA WAYANADENSIS) 

* This Is The Kerala's 191st Odonate Species) 

* A Team Of Researchers From Ashoka Trust For Research In Ecology And The Environment (ATREE) Has Rediscovered A Long Lost Species (After 114 Years) Of The Velvet Worms ( Phylum Onychophora) In Arunachal Pradesh.

* Researchers From Zoological Survey Of India (ZSI) And Museum A KOEING In Germany Have Discovered Six New Beetle Species In North East. 

* Six New Species Of SERICINAE SCARAB Beetles Have Been Discovered From North East India 

SIX NEW SPECIES ARE - 

* Maladera Champhaiensis 

* Neoserica Churachandpurensis 

* Maladera Barasingha 

* Maladera Lumlaensis 

* Serica Subansiriensis 

* Maladera Onam 

* Researchers at The Centre For Peninsular Genetic Resources Kochi, Of The National Bureau Of Fish Genetics Resources Have Discovered Two New Species Of Fish In Western Ghats.

* LABEO URU 

* LABEO CHEKIDA 

( TAXONOMY OF LABEO NIGERSCENS) A Species First Describes In 1870 

* Scientists Have Discovered a New Species Of Frog In Assam's GARBHANGA Reserve 

( NAMED AFTER - LEPTOBRACHIUM ARYATIUM) 

In Honour To Arya Vidyapeeth College, Guwahati, Assam 

* New Mosquito Species Has Been Discovered In Srilanka.

* NAMED - CULEX ( LOPHOCERAOMYIA) CINCTELLUS. 

* Found In Colombo, Srilanka 

FIRST IN CAPTURE - 

* Buxa Tiger Reserve Along With Wildlife Institute Of India (WII) Captured The First Photographic Record Of The Spotted LINSANG ( PRIONODON PARDICOLOR) 

* A Rare Long Snouted Vine Snake Has Been. rediscover In The Dudhwa Tiger Reserves, Uttar Pradesh.

* Steppe Eagle Spotted For the First Time In Madurai, 

* The Small Hive Beetle (AETHINATUMIDA) Recorded In India' First time In West Bengal.

* Malabar Flash, a Reddish Dark Brown Butterfly Spotted in Nilgiri For First Time.

( RAPALA LANKANA ) 

* A Black Jackal Has Been Spotted In Baramati, Pune.

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 A New Species Of Carnivorous Caterpillar Has Been Discovered On The Hawaiian Island.

* Scientists From CSIR -IHBT Palampur, Have Discovered A New Orchid Species (HEMIPILIA HIMALYENSIS) At Dibang Valley Arunachal Pradesh.

* POLYDENDRORHYNCHUS - a New Species Of Nemertea Identified At Bay Of Bengal  (HETERONEMERTEA) 

* A Joint Efforts By The University Of ARKANSAS (USA) And The Wildlife Institute Of India (WII) Discovered The Two New Species Of Fungi 

* XEROCOMUS GARHWALENSIS

* XEROCOMUS RISHIKENSIS

AT Banj Oak Forest In Himalaya.

NEW WILDLIFE SANCTUARY - 

* Madhya Pradesh State Government Has Announced The State's 25th Wildlife Sanctuary After Baba Saheb Ambedkar.

AWARDS - 

* CSE Director General Sunita Narain Has Been Honoured With The Navbharat Navaratna Samman 2025 For Contribution In Environment Protection.

ENVIRONMENT - 

* Brazil Has Proposed The Creation Of A New International Body To Accelerate Global Climate Action.

* A Team Of Scientists Have Unearthed The Ancient Lagoon Ecosystem In Northern Patagonia.

( Chadititan Calvoi, A Newly Discovered Titanausur Discovered).

* Kerala And Tamilnadu To Conduct Joint Nilgiri Tahr Census 

* India And 62 Other Countries Voted In Favour Of The World's First Ever Global Carbon Tax Imposed On The Shipping Industry By The United Nations Shipping Agency.

*  Four New Fungal Species Of Genus CHLOROCIBORIA Have Been Discovered In South West China.