Order of the High Court of Kerala in the matter of Sangita Iyer Vs Guruvayur Devasom & Others dated 17/02/2025. The Kerala High Court directed the Deputy Administrator (Livestock) of Guruvayoor Devaswom to file a detailed affidavit explaining the procedures being followed in Guruvayur Devaswom for booking and transporting elephants …
On 3 June 2010, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) constituted an independent, two-member team to asses the ground situation at Simlipal Tiger Reserve in Orissa, in the wake of a recent spate of elephant deaths there. The elephant carcasses were first detected in April 2010. Since then, there have …
In several regions in India farmers are switching crops—some are even abandoning farming. Their choices are not dictated by the agriculture market. They are doing so because they are too close to forests. And wild animals attack their crops and cattle so often that they cannot go on like before. …
SALEPUR: Residents in the western part of Cuttack district are spending sleepless nights due to rising elephant menace in the region. Besides damaging crops, the animals have been injuring people, particularly in Athagarh and Gurudijhatia region. On Monday, 40-year-old Pradip Dalai of Rautarapur village was injured when an elephant attacked …
The expert committee which made a study on the rift between wild elephants and human beings at Chamarajanagara, Mysore and Kodagu districts will submit a scientific report within one and half month to Central government. Speaking to reporters, Expert Committee Head Dr B Gangwar, after visiting wild elephant menace region …
Rajendra S Markuna | Haldwani An elephant census is all set to be conducted in Uttarakhand from June 1 to 3. As the hill State is going for such an exercise after a three year gap, there is a lot of curiosity among all, particularly wildlife activists, to know about …
Lucknow: The first-ever elephant census in Dudhwa Tiger Reserve has thrown up disappointing results. There are 11 elephants present in only one range of the reserve. The forest staff involved in the census work could not spot more elephants during the two-day census period last week. It is for the …
Environmental orgnisations like Wild Cat -C, Nature Conservation Guild and Bhadra Wildlife Conservation Trust has urged the district administration to ban the use of elephants for timber work in coffee estates in Chikmagalur district. In a press release issed by Sridev Hulikere and D V Girish said
The farmers in Basaravalli and surrounding areas are worried over the rise in wild elephant menace, and loss of crops. hopeless Wild elephants destroyed crops in Basaravalli and surrounding areas. DH photoThe forest department has not met those who have lost their crops, property last year owing to the wild …
Forest Department launched elephant census in Kodagu forest area on Saturday. RFO M S Chinnappa giving information to volunteers on identifying blocks before beginning elephant census in Anekadu reserve forest near Kushalnagar. Forester K P Somanna, volunteers B C Muruli Madaiah and H K Thilagar are seen. dh photoThe personnel …
Nagercoil: Fifty-seven elephants, including 13 calves, were found in Kanyakumari district during a two-day elephant census conducted by the Forest Department, a senior official said on Monday. This showed an increase of six elephants over the 2008 figures, District Forest Officer Sundara Raju said. The census was conducted by a …
Idukki: More than 1,500 specially trained people on Saturday started an elaborate two-day census exercise to ascertain the number of wild elephants in the four elephant reserves in Kerala as part of an elephant census under Project Elephant in South. On the first day of the census, the
The elephant census in Bhadra wildlife division is in progress. The enumerators have sighted 82 elephants so far, said ACF Ramesh Babu. Elephants in Bhadra Reserve Forest in Chikmagalur. DH file photoSpeaking to Deccan Herald from Kesuve camp in Muthodi zone, he said the work on estimated number of elephants …
JORHAT, May 14: Wild elephants unable to forage on the lush green vegetation on Naga hills due to ongoing jhum cultivation ransacked a number of fields in the Dihingapar area. A few houses of workers at the Kathonibari tea estate and the shop of one Purna Bora of Meleng were …
There is something about India’s government machinery that makes it impervious to simple, low-cost solutions. It spends hundreds of crores of rupees to make available drinking water. The money, it is widely known, does not trickle down to villages that need potable water. The government knows it cannot achieve its …
In March the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) rejected petitions by Tanzania and Zambia to sell ivory. Samuel Wasser,an ivory tracker and head of the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of Washington, told Sumana Narayanan why CITES first banned ivory trade 20 years ago and …
DHARMAPURI: Swaran Singh, Chairman and Managing Director, Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage (TWAD) Board, gave instructions to officials to give maximum provision to protect the water treatment plants of the Hogenakkal Drinking Water and Fluorosis Mitigation Project from wild elephants from the nearby reserve forests. Mr. Singh inspected the …
Udhagamandalam: A leopard and two elephants were found dead in different parts of the Nilgiris on Tuesday. According to forest officials the carcass of a male leopard aged 4 to 5 years in a decomposed state was found inside a private tea estate at Ganganagar near Kodhumudi. Nails from three …
The three-day-long elephant census programme, which will commence on May 15, should be conducted scientifically and systematically, said Kodagu Circle Conservator of Forest K B Markandeya. Speaking as a resource person at a workshop organised for the enumerators, officials and NGOs at Dubare Elephant Camp near here, he said that …
