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 …
Sri Lankan authorities today said that at least eleven people and 79 elephants have died in human-elephant conflict during the year. Environment Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka said today said that remedial measures are being taken to counter this phenomenon. In many recent cases, wild elephants stormed villages near the jungle, …
A change in the species of the elephants being purchased by the Karachi city government for its zoo after the publishing of advertisements was not according to the rules, Dawn has reliably learnt. Highly-placed sources said that the change of species from Asian elephants, which are difficult to get, to …
The High Court, on Monday, appointed Karnataka Wildlife Advisory Council to look into elephant deaths and prevent further accidental deaths of pachyderms in the State. Chief Justice P Dinakaran has appointed the council, which is to be headed by senior advocate Madhusudan Naik. The council will meet at least once …
A logging operation planned by Asia's biggest pulp producer in Indonesia's Sumatra island threatens the habitat of rare orangutans, tigers and elephants, a joint report by five conservation groups said on Tuesday. A license has been given to a joint venture between Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) and the Sinar …
Jamshedpur, May 19: In January this year, an elephant trampled a man to death in a village at Kharsawan. A few days later, a tusker was found dead in a paddy field of Kharsawan. The man-elephant conflict has been a matter of concern for the forest department for quite a …
Jamshedpur, May 19: In January this year, an elephant trampled a man to death in a village at Kharsawan. A few days later, a tusker was found dead in a paddy field of Kharsawan. The man-elephant conflict has been a matter of concern for the forest department for quite a …
An assistant sub-inspector attached to Chamarajanagar Rural Police Station, B Basavegowda (52) has been trampled to death by a wild tusker near Yettegowdanadoddi forest range, on Karnataka-Tamil Nadu Border on Monday. According to police, both Basavegowda and another police constable, Ravi were going on their two wheeler to Kolipallya in …
A circus elephant has become a poster pachyderm against poaching of his endangered Asian species, capturing the hearts of many Vietnamese after an old wound caused by a trap flared up. The fate of Kham Bun made headlines in Vietnam recently after the Hanoi circus said the elephant, who was …
Forest Department is likely to launch an operation from May 11 to nab two rogue elephants which are damaging standing crops as well as attacking people in the Malnad region of the Western Ghats. According to officials, the State Government had given permission to the rogue elephants nearly five months …
Wild elephants, that lived in the Buttala, Kataragama and Wellawaya areas in the Pahala Uva region of the Monaragala district have come to the forests off Ambarangala, Koslanda, Makaldeniya, Puunaagala and Seeriyabedda in the Haldummulla Divisional Secretariat of the Badulla district, say the Haldummulla public. These jumbos have become a …
Afghanistan's only known pig has been locked in a room, away from visitors to Kabul zoo where it normally grazes beside deer and goats, because people are worried it could infect them with the virus popularly known as swine flu. The pig is a curiosity in Muslim Afghanistan, where pork …
The school children, of the jungle area of Kandeketiya, got a surprise when they saw four wild jumbos frolicking in the school playground. The elephants, noticing the children, had stopped playing and started running towards them. The frightened children ran helter-skelter and some ended up getting into a bus parked …
The only wildlife sanctuary in India named after a non-human primate, the Hoolock Gibbon, the Gibbon Sanctuary was going to adopt a project to connect both sides of the forest separated by the railway line to cross by the Hoolock Gibbons. But the experiment is now not working to the …
Ajai Shukla / Tezpur (assam) May 04, 2009, 0:27 IST The Defence R&D; Organisation (DRDO) offers intellectual challenges, but not an adventurous image. A DRDO director is perceived as a man in a white coat working in a laboratory or gazing at computer monitors. But the Defence Research Laboratory (DRL) …
- Forest department plans slew of measures in three districts to check ivory smuggling Jamshedpur: The job of tracking tusker poachers could not have been more rewarding. Literally. The state forest department is planning to bestow cash prizes on those who will be able to provide specific information about elephant …
R Ayyappan THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Forest Department has wound up further investigation into the serial deaths of seven wild elephants in Periyar Tiger Reserve (PTR) before it could come to a firm conclusion on the cause of the deaths. The findings of the inter-disciplinary team constituted to probe the deaths seem …
