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 …
Tiruvannamalai: A 10-year-old elephant was electrocuted in the Jawadu hills on Friday. A herd was moving along the elephant corridor between the Veerappanur Reserve Forest and Nallappattu Reserve Forest when the elephant came into contact with an 11 KV electric line. Conservator of Forests, Vellore, A.V.Venkatachalam, and District Forest Officer, …
Thailand still has Asia's biggest illegal elephant ivory market despite promises to crack down, the wildlife trade monitoring group Traffic said on Friday. The report said Bangkok should close "elephant-sized loopholes" in its wildlife protection laws that enable sellers to pass off illegal ivory as coming from a legal source …
Deputy Conservator of Forest B B Mallesh has informed that the Central government has approved the setting up of Elephant Project Directorate in Madikeri to curb the tiff between the wild elephants and human beings. The office will be set up soon, he said addressing a news conference at Aranya …
A she-elephant in an advanced stage of pregnancy has been shot dead by poachers at the Hurulu Environment park in close proximity to Kodigalakande Forest Hermitage at Habarana-Trincomalee main road. Wildlife officials attached to Mahaweli Zone said that this 20 to 25 years old and 6 1/2 foot tall elephant …
Tribal Education institution Head M B Prabhu has urged the Minister for Environment and Forest Jairam Ramesh to take steps to set up Directorate of Elephant Project in Kodagu and control elephant menace through public-private participation. In a memorandum, Prabhu said that there is a need to solve the elephant …
Joanna Moorhead Ten years ago, the conservationist Lawrence Anthony adopted seven wild elephants in South Africa. He says humans could learn much from them about family life. Lawrence Anthony
BHUBANESWAR: The police today seized ivory weighing 3.5 kg and held seven persons in this connection here. The incident has re-established that ivory smuggling is thriving in Orissa. Two years back, a huge haul of 14 kg tusk was seized by a joint squad of the Crime Branch and Wildlife …
Siliguri, June 10: Foresters of Darjeeling district today filed an FIR with Naxalbari police, alleging that Nepal cops had fired at them and an elephant herd last night.
ROURKELA: Officials of Jarda range under Bonai forest division accompanied by Gurundia police recently recovered two elephant tusks worth over Rs 10 lakh. Six persons allegedly involved in wildlife poaching were arrested. Reports said Jarda range office was tipped of about the plan of the poachers to dispose of the …
Meegahakiula Division is probably one of the worst affected by the wild elephant menace in the Badulla district. The residents of several areas of the Meegahakiula Divisional Secretariat division are living in constant fear of wild elephants. A herd of wild elephants that roamed into Galgekanda, 13th Mile Post and …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Forest Minister Benoy Viswom wrote to Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday, calling for measures to prevent recurring deaths of wild animals on the railway track between Palakkad and Coimbatore. A wild elephant and its calf were killed on the early hours of Wednesday. Recalling previous instances of …
A high-level meeting of forest department officials will be held on June 9 at Bangalore to discuss the problems faced by the mahouts and kavadis who are involved in taking care of elephants at Dubare elephant camp, said Madikeri DCF B B Mallesh. Speaking to press persons on Wednesday, he …
Both Thailand and Vietnam have been identified during the past decade as centres of concern in ivory trade surveys and analyses undertaken for CITES by ETIS (Elephant Trade Information System). Thailand was one of the most important sites of illegal ivory trade at the global level and Vietnam was shown …
Alipurduar, May 28: Twenty-four hours after a tusker was killed by the speeding Guwahati-bound Jhajha Express, wildlife NGOs are hoping that the new railway minister will be more proactive about saving animals from track deaths. Animesh Bose, the programme Coordinator of Himalayan Nature and Adventure Foundation, said:
From January 1 this year, 79 elephants had been killed. More than half of them victims of the human-elephant conflict, Environment and Natural Resources Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka said. There were also 11 human deaths due to elephant attacks, Ranawaka told a press conference held at the Central Environment Authority …
Environment and Natural Resources Minister Champika Ranawaka yesterday announced that they have taken a great responsibility to conserve wild elephants in Sri Lanka. The population of wild elephants has increased in remaining forests and National Parks and there is not enough space for their movement. And there are growing concerns …
V.S.Palaniappan Valparai: Two elephants were found dead near a private estate in the Urulikal area of Valparai on Monday. Officials suspect the animals might have died after consuming chemicals such as Furidon and Murrate of Potash stocked in a godown on the estate, which was raided by a herd of …
