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 …
The committee is expected to give a comprehensive plan, which will help manage all the issues related to elephants THE government had set up an expert committee on `Project Elephant' a week ago to look into all is- sues pertaining to elephant popu- lation and th- reats in the coun- …
Coimbatore: Considering the fast dwindling population of tigers across the country as well as the increasing man-animal conflicts owing to elephants in four States, Union Minister for Environment and Forests, Jairam Ramesh on Thursday reiterated the need for visible and objective implementation of Project Elephant on the lines of Project …
KRISHNAGIRI: One person was injured when a wild elephant attacked him near Hosur on Wednesday morning. Local residents said that Chinna Govindan (45) was attacked by a herd of 13 wild elephants near his field in Ulagam Ramapuram near Hosur. Chinna Govindan had gone to his agriculture field without knowing …
With threats to elephants and their habitats increasing in India, the Union Government has decided to constitute a task force to come up with a detailed picture so that a comprehensive strategy could be considered and adapted for their conservation. Well-placed sources revealed that the Union Minister of Environment and …
Project Elephant was conceived and launched as a milestone initiative in the year 1992 by the Ministry of Environment and Forests with an objective to protect and conserve the population of Wild Asian Elephants in India. However, following the years of its inception Project Elephant faced a number of challenges …
The government has constituted a task force to provide detailed recommendations to upgrade Project Elephant and bring about a more effective conservation and management of wild as well as captive tuskers in the country. The 10-member task force will give a fresh impetus to the existing project, said officials, adding …
Nine of them stray into foothills of the Western Ghats wrong MOVE: Elephants moving around on the foothills of Western Ghats near Kalakkad on Thursday. TIRUNELVELI: District Collector M. Jayaraman on Wednesday evening held discussion with top forest department officials to chase the stray elephant herd which is roaming around …
The farmers and plantation growers are having sleepless nights due to the rogue elephant menace in the region. The pack of rogue tuskers have already destroyed large areas of cultivated fields, areca and coffee crops. A pack of four to five tuskers coming from Bhadra Reserve Forest are said to …
BALASORE: They stood like a wall around their calves protecting them from a tiger couple. In a rare show of filial affection, a herd of 42 elephants cordoned off two calves in Kuldiha sanctuary in Balasore district for nearly 24 hours to save them from two tigers. The elephants made …
BHUBANESWAR: With man-animal conflict assuming disturbing proportions in Orissa, Wildlife Wing has a job at hand. The ongoing elephant depredation which has triggered angry reactions in Dhenkanal is just a case in point. With animal depredation becoming a major problem, the Nandankanan Zoological Park on Tuesday embarked on a novel …
P. Oppili Elephant Task Force to be formed on the lines of Tiger Task Force On the raise: Herd of wild elephants seen at Hanumanthapuram village near Uthanapalli in Krishnagiri district last December. CHENNAI: There is a steady growth in population of wild elephants in the State. This was revealed …
METTUR: Farmers of villages in and around Kolathur have urged the Department of Forest to erect solar fence to prevent elephant herd from straying into their villages and fields. They claimed that since River Palar was fast drying up, the elephant herd in search of water had started straying into …
AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO The authorities of the famous Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) in Orissa's Mayurbhanj district have pressed into service three domesticated elephants to keep a watch on the movement of a herd of rouge jumbos, which has been causing depredations at some villages in the locality. The captive elephants …
BHUBANESWAR: AN eye for an eye. And an elephant for an elephant. That is what Wildlife Wing will do to tame the killer jumbo of Dhenkanal which has given a slip to expert teams since January 23. Unable to get their hands on the pachyderm which has been roaming in …
Muralidhara Khajane Not one elephant has been electrocuted in Chamarajanagar in the last 18 months MYSORE: Even as the Forest Department is planning to erect elephant-proof barricades to a length of 547 km in different wildlife sanctuaries in Karnataka to reduce man-animal conflict, forest officials of Chamarajanagar have succeeded in …
To a distance 1,400 km along borders of reserve forests JUMBO PROBLEM: Forest officers explaining elephant movement to Forest Minister N. Selvaraj at Sattaparai near Palani on Friday. Revenue Minister I Periasamy and Collector M. Vallalar look on. PALANI: Solar electric fence would be installed to a distance 1,400 km …
Udhagamandalam: The Nilgiris Collector, Anandrao V. Patil, has in a press note issued here on Thursday stated that in compliance with Madras High Court order a public hearing with regard to the recent publication of a map of the Elephant Corridor in the Sigur Plateau by the District Forest Officer, …
Troubled by continuing human-animal conflicts that have claimed many lives on both sides in the Jawadhu hill range, the forest department and district administration of Tiruvannamalai plans to tag the matriarch of an elephant herd with a microchip to track the group
RASHME SEHGAL Wild elephants head the list of electrocuted animals and the Wildlife Protection Society of India ound that 30 elephants were electrocuted in 2009. Poachers have found that electrocution is the easiest way to kill elephants, tigers and leopards in the wild. All they have to do is steal …
