Guwahati, Sept. 21: WWF India will begin its tiger estimation effort in the picturesque Tale wildlife sanctuary of Arunachal Pradesh with camera traps in the first week of October.

The area in the Nameri-Pakke landscape has the largest tiger population in Arunachal Pradesh, said the 2010 report on Status of the Tiger, Co-Predators and Prey, released recently.

“The habitat is good and the place has potential of holding tigers,” Jimmy Borah, assistant coordinator of Tiger programme, WWF India, said.

ROING: According to the North Eastern Regional Institute of Water and Land Management (NERIWLM), six districts of the State have arsenic contamination in their water sources causing concern for the authorities. The six districts are Papum Pare, East Kameng, West Kameng, Lower Subansiri and Lower Dibang Valley and Tirap.

Guwahati: Massive landslides in the Tibetan Buddhist-dominated Tawang area and West Kameng areas of Arunachal Pradesh has triggered a scare that the 400-year-old monastery that

A group of Yaks at the National Yak Research and Breeding Centre, Arunachal Pradesh. File Photo
The Hindu A group of Yaks at the National Yak Research and Breeding Centre, Arunachal Pradesh.

BOMDILA, Aug 1: A Public Hearing for grant of Environmental Clearance (EC) in respect of the 120 MW Dibbin Hydro Electric Project under Nafra circle in West Kameng district was held on Friday last at Nafra Community Hall, reports DIPRO.

BOMDILA, June 21: Come monsoon and water borne diseases like diarrhea, dysentery, cholera, typhoid, worm infestation and infective hepatitis makes their foothold and Bomdila, the house of nine thousand-plus people in its fold, is no exception.