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 …
Thiruvananthapuram/DEHRA DUN : Many captive elephants are in poor health due to overwork and want of timely medical care in Kerala, known for its parades of majestic tuskers in glittering festive gear during carnivals. According to animal rights groups, not only aged elephants, but even those in prime youth are …
PALAKKAD: The straying of wild elephants into human habitats has become a menace for locals residing at Malampuzha, Kava, Padalikaad, Kottekad, Venoli and Attapadi areas. Acres of cultivated land were also damaged. Recently two tribals were killed by elephants in Attapadi and at Adupu colony in Malampuzha. The Forest Department …
Elephant census will be conducted in Bhadra reserve Forest between May 15 and 17, informed Deputy Conservator of Forest (Bhadra Wildlife Division) Vijay Mohanraj. Speaking to Deccan Herald, Mohanraj said that the elephant census will be conducted adopting the line transit method, which was used during the tiger census recently. …
LUCKNOW: It was the last Sunday morning for Sumit and Jaimala here at Lucknow zoo. The pachyderms left for their new abode bidding goodbye to the city. While Sumit trumpeted loudly before he boarded the truck for his journey to Dudhwa National Park, Jaimala was reluctant to go.
The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Madras High Court to consider sympathetically the case of a farmer who is about to lose his two-acre farm land to the proposed elephant corridor in the foothills of Nilgiri. A Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan refused to interfere in …
Customary land rightsPalm oil firm loses to Kayans A native community in Malaysia won a 12-year legal battle against the Sarawak state government and palm oil giant ioi Pelita after the state’s apex court recognized their customary land rights. The court ruled that the government had unconstitutionally granted the native …
JORHAT, April 28: Man-elephant conflict has taken a toll on Jorhat district last year as nearly 300 families were affected by elephant depredation, the Jorhat Forest Department said. The district has seen a rise in jumbo rampages in the last five years, Forest Department sources added. The Forest Department of …
Countdown:An elephant and its calf in Bandipur National Park near Mysore. Bangalore: The Karnataka State Forest Department is gearing up for a two-day elephant census that will be conducted across most of the State's national parks and sanctuaries on May 15 and 16. The census will be simultaneously carried out …
Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary: The forest and environment department today created a corpus for development of villages in Dalma forest range, especially where the elephant menace is severe. Deputy chief minister Sudesh Mahto, who also heads the forest and environment department, said that Rs 30 crore would be deposited with a …
The Minister for Forests, Mr Benoy Viswam, has said the rehabilitation centre for elephants at Kappukad near here and the associated study and research facilities were emerging as a global model. The best-in-class rehabilitation centre has been set up with the objective of caring for aged and otherwise incapacitated domesticated …
Elephant population is on the rise in Tamil Nadu even as it is on the decline in neighbouring Kerala and Karnataka. The population of wild elephants in Tamil Nadu was 2,307 in 1993, which touched 2,971 in 1997 and 3,052 in 2002. Two years ago the number of wild elephants …
Two female captive elephants of Byculla Zoo, Laxmi and Anarkali, may soon be free of their enclosure measuring 4,000 square feet to roam in the dense forests of Chhattisgarh, giving a ride to forest officials on patrol duty. On Monday, the elephants had a visitor from Chhattisgarh, conservator of forests, …
Sudha Nambudiri KOCHI: Guruvayur Anakotta which houses more than 60 elephants has to deal with nine tonnes of elephant dung every day. It is with the help of a contractor that the authorities dispose off the dung by using it for land-filling or some other purpose. But with the rising …
Bindu Shajan Perappadan NEW DELHI: Delhi Zoo has a mammoth task on hand with the authorities unable to find a home for its two Indian elephants after the Central Zoo Authority issued a circular in November last banning zoos across the country from keeping elephants. Circular issued
Jamshedpur: As many as 150 forest officials, including guards, rangers and assistant conservators, today participated in a training programme to prepare them for the forthcoming wildlife census in the state. Field director of Palamau tiger project, Manoj Singh, taught the participants how to count both herbivorous and carnivorous animals in …
T.V. SRIRA Not willing to give up, the villagers in Galkiriyagama, Kekirawa, took turns trying first to pull out the baby elephant which was crying out in distress Working tireless April 15: Working tirelessly, hundreds of people in a village located North Central Sri Lanka pulled out two sinking elephants …
A ONE-AND-A-HALF-YEAROLD elephant was found dead at the Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History in Anaikatty, near here. The post-mortem report revealed that the calf that had come to quench thirst died due to hepatitis B besides severe parasite infection. Forest guard R Kumar said, "The calf along …
