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 …
PALANI: An unidentified gang shot a 30-year-old male elephant and removed its tusks in the reserve forests here on Monday night. Forest officials and veterinary doctors inspected the carcass of the elephant on Tuesday and informed that the gang had used acid to remove the tusks. One bullet was removed …
Your hair is what you eat. As it grows, hair incorporates carbon, hydrogen and other elements from food and water. So a single strand is like a core sample: chop it into short lengths, analyze each, and you have a record of dietary changes over time. That might not be …
Close to the foothills of the Himalaya four tigers ventured out of forests and killed 11 people in the past five months. The killings have challenged the official understanding of man-eaters. Unlike the man-eaters of Kumaon Jim Corbett wrote about, these were not rendered incapable of hunting by either old …
Expert team inspects carcasses of elephants found in Periyar Tiger Reserve P. Venugopal THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An inter-disciplinary expert team that studied the circumstances leading to the death of seven elephants in the Periyar Tiger Reserve (PTR) in Kerala over the last six weeks has concluded that the killings could be the …
So much has been said and written about the human-elephant conflict resulting in the death of hundreds of people and wild elephants alike but nothing seems to have been done to bring the situation under control. Environmentalists are of the opinion that the opening of jungles for development projects and …
A Dutch tourist was trampled to death by a wild elephant inside the Kaziranga National Park on Tuesday while eight of his colleagues had a miraculous escape. Park authorities said a lone rogue elephant had charged at the group. Robert William, 60, was killed while the others esc- aped. 1In …
Guwahati: A 62-year old tourist from the Netherlands was trampled to death by a wild elephant inside the famous Kaziranga National Park in Assam on Tuesday. The tourist has been identified as Robert Goldbach. A director of the National Park S N Buragohain informed that a lone wild elephant suddenly …
Forest department officials today deliberated on ways to curb ivory smuggling in Singhbhum. The meeting, attended by principal chief conservator of forests (wildlife) A.K. Singh at the forest guesthouse in Mango, primarily discussed elephant poaching in the Singhbhum Elephant Project area and on how to curb the menace. Sources in …
Shillong: Over 200 polling booths, mostly in the Garo hills region in Meghalaya, have been marked 'sensitive' not because they face any law and order problem but for fear of attacks by wild elephants. Apart from Garo Hills, which is along the Indo-Bangla border, the booths are located in the …
DENKANIKOTTAI: Wild elephants destroyed crops near Kelamangalam on Thursday night and later roamed around Kottha lake area. Forest Department officials after much effort succeeded in sending them to the nearby Pavanatham forest on Friday evening. Eyewitnesses said that about four elephants from the forest entered the fields in Jakkeri in …
Jamshedpur, March 31: Elephant poachers in Saranda have found a friend in Maoists. This startling fact came to light during a probe conducted by the forest department in West Singhbhum. The report reveals that poachers killed at least four tuskers between March 2008 and February 2009 by administering poison. Saranda …
Despite serious attempts at putting an end to elephant poaching, the disappearance of the species in various parts of the world continues to be reported. However, evolution has come to the rescue of this magnificent animal, with a reduction in its physical size and the length of its tusks, giving …
Wildlife casualities were reported due to train accidents from many locations in India. In this paper an attempt has been made to analyse the reasons for elephant deaths due to accidents involving passenger trains in the railway track between Palghat and Coimbatore (Kerala-Tamil Nadu border).
The paper presents the findings of 7year long field trial of a fodder plantation technique specially designed for enrichment of wildlife habitats by biological displacement of Lantana cover by bamboo in a Lantana-infested area. The field trial was carried out between 1995-96 and 2002-03 in Rajaji National Park.
It could have come from plants, thinks Karnataka Four wild elephants, found dead in Nanjangud, 25 km from Mysore, in November 2008, died of cyanide poisoning. Chemical analysis ordered by the Karnataka forest department has confirmed this. The deaths made the high court take notice for the first time of …
March 29: Elephant menace is a jumbo poll issue in four Assembly and two Lok Sabha constituencies in Srikakulam, Vizianagaram and Chittoor districts in the state. Tribals, the worst affected by elephant terror, are up in arms against political leaders for their apathy towards their problems. Elephants have been destroying …
KOLLAM: Tusker Gopalakrishnan, which was killed in a road accident, was cremated on Friday evening in the presence of thousands of grief-stricken devotees and elephant-lovers. The poojaris and devotees of Asramam Sree Krishnaswamy Temple lit the pyre around 5.45 p.m. on the temple premises. It will take three days for …
KOLLAM: The 40-year-old tusker Gopalakrishnan of Asramam Sree Krishnaswamy Temple here, sustained serious injuries when a sand-laden lorry knocked it down in the wee hours of Tuesday. The tusker suffered fractures on both its hind legs. Another tusker Rajasekharan of Sakthikulangara Temple, and two mahouts also sustained minor injuries in …
Siliguri, March 23: Baikunthapur forest division will increase its fringe area by 50 hectare this year in an effort to prevent man-animal conflict in the villages located on the outskirts. The foresters have also sent a project report, Integrated Development of Wildlife Habitat, to the state forest department, comprising various …
