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 …
KOCHI: The burial of an elephant, which reportedly died of anthrax in Perumbavoor on Thursday, has kicked up a controversy. There are allegations that the pachyderm was buried, near the Muvattupuzha river, unscientifically and could pose a threat of polluting the river, a source of potable water in the district. …
Bhavnagar: In a major seizure, a team of special operations group (SOG) of Bhavnagar police caught illegally traded ivory and tusks worth Rs 9.78 lakh on Thursday evening. The trader dealing in the material was arrested from Radhanpuri bazaar of the city. Mahendra Maniyar owner of Chandrakant and Co. was …
Sivadas Varma KOCHI: They are now the pride of the Kochi Devaswom Board. Till recently the tuskers owned by the Board faced torture from their mahouts. After the intervention of elephant lovers and the media, the Board official have started appointing only persons with sufficient experience to care for these …
The late monsoon is upsetting the migration schedule of the elephants of the Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary. Each year, in the month of September, elephants leave the reserve area and head to Purulia, West and East Midnapore districts. They return to sanctuary before the start of the summer season, around mid-February. …
Yagnesh Mehta | TNN Surat: In a strange incident, a mahout got electrocuted while sitting on his elephant at Vankal village in Chikhli taluka of Navsari district. His body got stuck to the elephant, who was alive. According to forest officials, the mahout was passing through Vankal village when while …
A father and his three-year-old baby were killed and his wife and another six-year-old child seriously injured in an attack by a herd of wild elephants at Sukhbilash, some 30 kilometres off Bandarban Sadar yesterday. The deceased were identified as Jahangir Alam, his daughter Jisan and the injured were Munni …
C. Jaishankar To check electrical fencing and prevent death of elephants To prevent unlawful tapping of power Vulnerable places, elephant corridors identified RAMANATHAPURAM: The Forest Department will commence joint patrolling exercises with the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) along the districts covered by the Western ghats to prevent the death …
African zoologists are in Colombia to advise local authorities on what to do with dozens of hippos roaming around the abandoned zoo of late drug lord Pablo Escobar in the north of the country. Colombia was shocked last month at news that one of the giant beasts, who had escaped …
In a continuation of the conflict between humans and elephants, a man was killed but a child miraculously escaped unhurt when an elephant in the Kumbikkulama area of Habarana charged a group of farmers tending their land. T.D. Wimalasena (47), a father of two and a farmer from the Heenmoragolla …
In a continuation of the conflict between humans and elephants, a man was killed but a child miraculously escaped unhurt when an elephant in the Kumbikkulama area of Habarana charged a group of farmers tending their land. T.D Wimalasena (47), father of two and a farmer from the Heenmoragolla area …
In a continuation of the conflict between humans and elephants, a man was killed but a child miraculously escaped unhurt when an elephant in the Kumbikkulama area of Habarana charged a group of farmers tending their land. T.D Wimalasena (47), father of two and a farmer from the Heenmoragolla area …
In a bid to contain the accidental killing of animals on a highly sensitive stretch on the NH 37 near Kaziranga, the Forest Department has asked all motorists to strictly abide by speed limits. In case of violation, vehicle owners or drivers will be penalized. As the rains set in …
Assam seems to have found the mantra of success to arrest the rising incidents of man-elephant conflict. In a move towards it, the State is now advocating revival of the traditional
D Daniel Raj | ENS ELEPHANT TRAMPLES MAN TO DEATH IN KOVAITHE pent-up rage over the slumberous attitude of the forest department in protecting the people prone to elephant attack boiled over at Somayanur, when villagers resorted to a road roko on Wednesday. The latest victim was a 60year-old Rangasamy, …
Five teams of the forest department today fanned out on elephant backs in Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary to identify herbivores that showed signs of illness. After the body of a rhino calf was found in the sanctuary on Sunday, foresters are not taking any chances as they fear that the death …
Two wild elephants in a midnight raid damaged a primary school at Sevoke Bazar and ate up sacks full of rice and pulses which they probably could not finish during a previous attack. Personnel from Sevoke police outpost and the local people pushed the tuskers back into the nearby Mahananda …
Forest Secretary Debendranath Sarangi (second from left), addressing a meeting in Udhagamandalam on Wednesday. Udhagamandalam: High priority is being accorded to the protection of elephant corridors, said Forest Secretary Debendranath Sarangi while speaking to journalists here on Wednesday. Pointing out that a special team was formed to survey the corridors, …
