Tribal people stage demonstration
Having submitted several representations to officials at various levels and staged different forms of agitations in vain scores of Betta Kurumbas, a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG), of Allur
Having submitted several representations to officials at various levels and staged different forms of agitations in vain scores of Betta Kurumbas, a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG), of Allur
The calving season of Nilgiri tahrs is under way at the park The Eravikulam National Park, abode of the highly endangered Nilgiri tahr ( Nilgiritragus hylocrius ), will remain closed to visitors till April 4. Chief Wildlife Warden V. Gopinathan said the two-month closure was an annual affair during the calving season of the tahrs. The closure was ordered on the basis of a report submitted by K.V. Subramanian, Field Director (Project Tiger), that the calving season of these mountain goats had begun at the park. Mr. Subramanian told The Hindu that kids were seen from the later part of January. Many of the female tahrs were heavily pregnant.
Discarded waste damages ecology of the hills Long considered by many as the best time of the year to visit this hill station, summer is also viewed as the worst from the environment and pollution point of view. The reason: Many among the tourists coming to ‘enjoy’ the season here leave behind their mark — in one form or the other — on the ecology of the place and their vehicles considerably increase air pollution while many of hawkers from the plains trading in a variety of items including cheap musical instruments, add to the noise pollution.
R Haldorai Green activists have opposed political support for encroachers as they have reduced green cover in the Nilgiris
P. Oppili CHENNAI: There has been a considerable increase in the population of Nilgiri Tahr and Lion-Tailed macaque in the Giant Grizzled Wildlife Sanctuary in Srivilliputhur revealed the recently concluded census.
Udhagamandalam: A change in the weather pattern has become a major source of concern to the farming community in many parts of the Nilgiris.
Sathyamangalam forest in Erode district has been declared a Tiger Reserve. It is the fourth such reserve in Tamil Nadu. The three other tiger reserves are at Mudumalai in the Nilgiris district, Anamalai in Coimbatore district and Kalakad-Mundanthurai in Tirunelveli district. The Forest Department has received the Government Order declaring Sathyamangalam Forests as a tiger reserve, and the Union government has also notified it, Conservator of Forests, Erode circle, A. Venkatesh told The Hindu over the phone on Monday.
Thanks to the efforts of NGOs and State Forest Department The population of vultures, a critically endangered species, is stabilising in the Moyar Valley in The Nilgiris North Forest Division in the State, thanks to the efforts of non-governmental organisations and the State Forest Department. S. Bharatidasan, Director, CareEarth Arulagam, the non-governmental organisation involved in the vulture conservation in the Moyar Valley, told The Hindu that through systematic protection measures the number of the forest scavengers’ nests had increased to 50 in January this year. Similarly, the number of vultures sighted also had also gone up.
This article presents an interesting case study on how projects, even science based projects are being conceived without any regard to ecology.
The death of a tiger at Thengumorahada in a remote part of the Nilgiris district and an elephant at Singara near Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) kept forest officials and wildlife enthusiasts on their toes on Monday. Speaking to The Hindu, District Forest Officer, the Nilgiris North, S.
Stating in unequivocal terms that no forest conservation activity would be possible without community participation, over 19 organisations representing traditional forest dwellers and other aborigines
Even as complaints relating to wild animals straying into human habitations and posing a threat to life and property is mounting in various parts of the district. particularly Gudalur, Pandhalur and their
The Madras High Court has directed the Union government to fix the minimum price for green tea leaf payable to small tea growers within six weeks. It also directed the government to do such exercise by calling for a realistic report on the problem faced by the small tea growers in The Nilgiris district and thereafter, arrive at a scientific sharing formula between the growers and the manufacturers.
A new system of surveying, using Global Positioning System (GPS) and Electronic Total Stations, is in progress in districts including Chennai, Coimbatore, Tirupur and The Nilgiris, according to Revenue Minister Thoppu N.D. Venkatachalam. Addressing a conference of State Revenue Ministers in New Delhi on Thursday, Mr. Venkatachalam [the text of whose speech was released in Chennai] said that on a pilot basis one village was chosen and, using the experience gained, the system — Modern Surveying — extended.
Landslides caused by heavy rainfall over the past few days in the Ooty mountain ranges have flattened several hamlets near Coonoor, said officials on Tuesday. They added that 28 deaths were reported on Tuesday, including seven of a family, taking the death toll due to monsoon-related incidents in the Nilgiris district to 42.
Wildlife enthusiasts fear fragmentation of elephant corridor Alternative measures to combat elephant intrusion suggested Coimbatore: The Southern Railway authorities have called off their efforts to dig an elephant-proof trench along the Nilgiris Mountain Railway (NMR) from Kallar.
With the monsoon continuing to play truant, water sources inside the Mudumalai and Anamalai Tiger Reserves may dry up With the frequent appearance of elephants in some parts of the Nilgiris like Pandalur near Gudalur and Nonsuch below Coonoor becoming a cause for worry due to water shortage in the jungles stated to be among the contributory factors, speculation over the situation in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) near here has, of late, become rife in various parts of the Nilgiris.
P. Oppili CHENNAI: A team of experts from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will visit forest areas in Sathyamangalam, Coimbatore and the Nilgiris for three days from next Monday to approve funding for the State Forest Department's Natural Resources Management Project.