VOL News Desk/ The Department of Forest, Ecology and Environment, UT Ladakh, has been conducting a series of activities aimed at raising awareness, strengthening community participation, and promoting human-wildlife coexistence under the banner of Wildlife Week -2025.
The activities include Cleanliness Drive along the Suru River in Kargil, school-level drawing and painting competitions on the theme “Say No to Plastics” and “Living with Wildlife.” , awareness programmes and capacity-b...
Several defence projects, defence roads and transmission line cleared and approved in meeting
Leh, April 24, 2025: The 11th meeting of the State Board for Wildlife was held under the chairmanship of the Hon’ble Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh, Brigadier (Dr) BD Mishra (Retd), at the Lieutenant Governor’s Secretariat in the presence of the Hon’ble wildlife board members.
At the outset, the HLG and the board members observed a minute’s silence to pay respect to the victims of the Pahalgam ...
Leh, February 08, 2025: The Chairman/CEC Adv. Tashi Gyalson, LAHDC Leh, in the presence of Advisor to the Lieutenant Governor UT Ladakh, Dr. Pawan Kotwal, held a joint review meeting to finalize the rationalization process of the Karakoram, Nubra, Shayok, and high-altitude desert Changthang Wildlife Sanctuaries. The meeting took place at the Civil Secretariat Leh.
At the outset, the Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests provided a detailed Power Point presentation on the ratio...
Kargil, October 08, 2024: The Kargil Campus, University of Ladakh observed “National Wildlife Week” from 2nd to 8th October 2024. The Event was jointly organised by Department of Environmental Science and Biodiversity Research Center, Kargil Campus, University of Ladakh, in collaboration with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Kargil Wildlife Division, Department of Wildlife Protection Ladakh. This event was designed to cultivate awareness of the critical importance of wildlife conservati...
Leh, Sept 20, 2024: The Hon’ble Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh, Brigadier (DR) BD Mishra (Retd) chaired the 10th Meeting of State Board for Wildlife of UT Ladakh, at the Lieutenant Governor’s Secretariat.
At the outset, the HLG requested wildlife expert, Dr MK Ranjitsingh, IAS (Retd) to assist UT Administration in, 1) profiling wildlife in Ladakh, 2) drafting wildlife policy of Ladakh and 3) preservation of wildlife based on warden care by appointing Army officials as honorary wildlife war...
