WILDLIFE & ENVIRONMENT CA IN DECEMBER 2025

* ATYOPSIS SPINIPES, The BAMBOO Shrimp Has Been Re Discovered In Karnataka And Odisha After 72 Years.

* a Horn Eyed Ghost Crab In News in Vishakapatnam.

* RESEARCHERS FROM ZOOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA (ZSI) HAVE DISCOVERED TWO NEW SPECIES OF JUMPING SPIDER IN MEGHALAYA.

* ASEMONEA DENTIS 

* COLYTTUS NONGWAR ( NAMED AFTER NONGWAR VILLAGE IN MEGHALAYA) 

* FAMILY BELONGS TO SALTI IDAE 

* THIS IS THE HOST ONLY THIRD SPECIES UNDER THIS GENUS (ASEMONEA) 

* * A NEW ROCK GECKO SPECIES HAS BEEN DISCOVERED BY ZOOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA (ZSI) TEAM AT EASTERN GHAT ( KA DHAMAL), ODISHA.

* SPECIES NAME - KALINGA ROCK GECKO ( HEMIDACTYLUS KALINGA) 

* GENUS - HEMIDACTYLUS 

* SCIENTISTS SAID THIS IS 2ND ENDEMIC HEMIDACTYLUS SPECIES IN ODISHA 

* THIS SPECIES HAS OLIVE BROWN BODY 

* THREE  New Moth Has Been Discovered At Himalaya 

- SPECIES Name - GELECHIA ADI 

- GELECHIA BILOBUNCUSA 

- ISTRIANIS IADAKHENSIS 

- NAMED AFTER - Adi Tribe Of Himalaya 

* Indian RESERCHERS Have REDISCOVERED RANUNCULUS TRICHOPHYLLUS, a Rare Cold Water Aquatic Herb At Wetland Of Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh.

* RESEARCHERS HAVE FOUND A NEW SNAKE HEAD FISH SPECIES IN THE RI - BHOI DISTRICT IN MEGHALAYA 

* SPECIES NAME - CHANNA BHOI 

* IT IS DISTINGUISHED BY IT'S UNIQUE COLOURATION ( A BLUSIH GREY BODY) 

* 8-9 BROKEN HORIZONTAL LINES 

* THE SPECIES EPITHET BHOI HONOURS THE INDIGENOUS BHOI COMMUNITY ( OF MEGHALYA HILL) 

* SCIENTISTS FROM ZOOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA ( ZSI) HAVE DISCOVERED A NEW SPECIES OF COLLEMBOLA COMMONLY KNOWN AS SPRINGTAILS.

* IN EASTERN HIMALAYA, SIKKIM 

* SPECIES NAMED - NEELUS SIKKIMENSIS 

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ENVIRONMENT - 

* 70 Butterfly Species Recorded In Last Two Years 

* Praveen Shaikh Has Win The WILDLIFE Service Award 2025

* Anant Ambani Recived The Global Humane Society ANIMAL Welfare Award 

* SUPRIYA SAHU, ADDITIONAL CHIEF SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT OF TAMILNADU HAS RECEIVED THE UN CHAMPION OF THE EARTH AWARD 2025 

* FOR HER CONTRIBUTION IN SUSTAINABLE COOLING & ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION. 

* Farasan Islands Of Saudi Arabia Became The First RAMSAR Sites Notified.

* LAIN DOUGLAS HAMILTON PASSED AWAY 

BORN IN - 16TH AUGUST 1942 

DIED ON - 08TH DECEMBER 2025 

* HE WAS A SCOTTISH ZOOLOGIST, FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY, 

* IN 1993 HE FOUNDED SAVE THE ELEPHANT 

* HIS FIRST' SCIENTIFIC STUDY ON ELEPHANT AT THE AGE OF 23 IN TANZANIA, LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK, 

AWARD - 

* 1988 - THE ORDER OF THE GOLDEN ARK ( For ELEPHANT CONSERVATION) 

* 1992 - THE ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE 

* 2015 - COMMANDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE 

* 2010 - INDIANPOLIS PRIZE 

* 2006 - DISNEY WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FUND AWARD 

* LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD BY SAN DIEGO 

* HE WAS THE GRANDSON OF ALFRED DOUGLAS HAMILTON (13th DUKE OF HAMILTON) 

* SILISERH LAKE IN ALWAR, RAJASTHAN 

* KOPRA JALASHYA IN CHHATTISGARH 

* TWO NEW RAMSAR SITES HAVE BEEN ADDED BY GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.

* INDIA HAS NOW 96 RAMSAR SITES 

BOOKS - 

* HE & HIS WIFE ORIA HAMILTON CO AUTHOR 

- AMONG THE ELEPHANTS (1975) 

- BATTLE OF THE ELEPHANTS (1992) 

- THE TREE WHERE MAN WAS BORN 

* HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP TO CITES FOR MONITORING THE ILLEGAL KILLING OF ELEPHANT (MIKE) IN AFRICA 

* 1982 - IUCN MEMBER FOR AFRICANS ELEPHANT SPECIALIST GROUPS 

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HOST - 

*  Nairobi Host The 7th Edition Of UN ENVIRONMENT Assembly ( UNEA-7)

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*  Satpura TIGER RESERVE, Madhya Pradesh Has Received The TOFT KAILASH Sankhala Visitor Friendly Wildlife National Park Award 2025.

* India's Resolution At UNEA -7 

* WII - EIACP Has Been Awarded Category A Status 

*  Maharshtra Chief Minister Devendra Pandavis Has Launched The Eco - Friendly Exotic Bird Park Project To Boost Tourism 

*  South Sudan Has Became The New Member Of International Big Cat Alliance 

*  Union Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav Has Attend At The NATIONAL Tiger Conservation Authority ( NTCA) And Project Elephant Meeting At Sunderban, Kolkata.

* NATIONAL Tiger Conservation Authority ( NTCA) Has DECLARED Gujarat A Tiger State After 33 Years.

* 55 Tigers Died in Madhya Pradesh Since 1973 Project TIGER.