Today's Environment News Alertenvironmentindia (46) in hive-168362 • last year ◆ The department is not leaving any stone unturned in protecting and popularising Kappatgudda forest. The department has now come out with a one-page calendar for the year 2024. It is a special calendar focusing on the wildlife of Kappatagudda. ◆ Bandipur Tiger Reserve (BTR) director Ramesh Kumar has recommended to the Chamarajanagar and Mysuru district administrations to ban all kinds of New Year celebrations around the tiger reserve. He has made the recommendation to keep the wild animals unaffected during the New Year celebrations at the homestays and resorts around the reserve. ◆ At least 25 people were hospitalised after they complained of uneasiness following an incident of ammonia gas lea at a fertiliser manufacturing unit in north Chennai's Ennore on Tuesday night. ◆ The Japan International Cooperation Agency's (JICA) Forestry Project will revive ‘bhojpatra’ in Himachal Pradesh in collaboration with the Himalayan Forest Research Institute to empower forest-fringe communities, particularly women, through sustainable livelihoods, government officials said on Wednesday. ◆ Two people were arrested on Tuesday in connection with the death of a female leopard after its head got entangled in a clutch wire fixed in the fencing of a private school at Theetukal near Ooty on December 21. 🌱🌏🌱 hive-168362 forestconservation wildlifeconservation karnataka bandipurtigerreserve tiger tigerconservation chennai