Madhav Gadgil

Let wild animals be confined to national parks: Madhav Gadgil

January 21, 2023

Let wild animals be confined to national parks: Madhav Gadgil

Unregulated shooting should never be encouraged; but there are rational systems, he said, taking examples from Norway and Sweden.

January 19, 2023
Legalise hunting wild animals that pose threat to humans: Madhav Gadgil

He said, “Banning the hunting of wild animals that pose threat is not logical. It should be allowed outside national parks. Animals are facing issues like extinction due to problems like pollution.”
June 24, 2022
Ecologist Madhav Gadgil says SC verdict on ESZ flawed

The directive is flawed, as is the whole regime of nature conservation here, said eminent ecologist Madhav Gadgil during an interview with Manorama Yearbook Online.
May 10, 2022
Madhav Gadgil on wild boar menace: Scrap WLPA, go for wise management of natural resources

The officers in the lab are rational people and have for decades been practising sustainable harvests of the prolifically breeding wild pigs.
January 19, 2022
'World has lost a great champion of Nature,' Gadgil pays tribute to M K Prasad

A leading light of Kerala Sasthra Sahitya Parishad (KSSP), MKP gradually steered it towards broader goals.
November 02, 2021
SilverLine high speed rail will cause huge environment disaster, says Madhav Gadgil

He said the reason for landslides like the one that occurred in Koottikkal was illegal mining carried out every now and then in the name of development.
October 19, 2021
Things getting worse in Western Ghats, says Madhav Gadgil

Gadgil and the report prepared by the WGEEP headed by him are back in news after over two dozen people lost their lives in landslides and flash floods occurred in the past few days.

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