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 …
Sivadas Varma KOCHI: After the death of Chalakkal Mohanan, another young tusker, Gajendran awaits death due to prolonged starvation. The tusker who attacked its first mahout, now under treatment, was abandoned by the other mahouts in a compound near Kumbalam. Exposed to the sun, Gajendran has been denied food and …
Siddapura, DH News Service: A two-year-old female elephant calf died under mysterious circumstances in Kallahalla forest area in Titimati of the district. It appears that the calf might have died at least five days back. It stinks. It has been suspected that the elephant calf might have died due to …
Villagers of Kolapura (H D Kote taluk) in Mysore district, had the shock of their lives on Saturday morning, when a wild tusker entered their village. Chaos ensued as panicky people and cattle ran helter-skelter to escape the tusker. A number of cattle that were tied up in a shed …
Jamshedpur, March 20: The tuskers in Dalma need some training for sure and the state forest department has called for a teacher from Assam. The state forest department has initiated talks with the Assam government for bringing in a tamed tusker to train the wild ones here. Range officer, Dalma, …
Company begins operations, without clearances, in an elephant corridor A PUBLIC mineral exploration company is setting up office to explore silica in the Swang reserve forest in Assam. Over 800 elephants use the area as a corridor. The company had done a preliminary survey on the forestland three years back …
Even as the Suo motu case on elephant deaths comes up for hearing in the High Court, the postmortem report by the Forest Department is yet to arrive at a conclusion over the death of pachyderms at Kappasoge in Nanjangud taluk. The official sources said with the death of the …
Forest Dept To Have DNA Test Done On Contraband At Wildlife Institute of India Parth Shastri | TNN Ahmedabad: State forest department is leaving no stone unturned to track source of two pieces of elephant tusks weighing 2.2 kg worth Rs 2.20 lakh seized at Sardar Patel International Airport on …
Over a fortnight after a wild elephant created havoc on villagers and killed four persons, the State Forest Department has swung into action and deployed a special squad to hunt the animal. In last two weeks, the elephant has killed four persons, including a pregnant woman and an old woman …
MYSORE, DHNS: An African female elephant housed at Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens, Mysore died on Monday. She was 44 years and one of the oldest inmates of the zoo. Zoo Executive Director Vijayranjan Singh told Deccan Herald that the zoo had procured a pair of African Elephants ' Jambi' and …
Coimbatore: Villagers in and around Kanuvai and Thadagam on Saturday made a beeline for a check dam to have a look at a herd of five wild elephants that got stuck in a ravine in an area abutting the reserve forest that forms part of the Western Ghats. Following information …
- Six new water bodies to make tuskers feel at home in sanctuary ANKUSH SINGH With the onset of summer, Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary is preparing for the homecoming of three tusker herds that had migrated to the jungles of Midnapore, Bengal, last November. Keen to ensure a comfortable stay for …
JAMSHEDPUR/RANCHI, Feb. 23: A widespread forest fire, which started late on Saturday night inside and along the fringes of the Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary, has destroyed large tracts of grasslands and engulfed several trees inside the core area of the forest. The fire had also spread to the elephant corridor of …
DODAMARG & SAWANTWADI: On the back of the recent border row between Maharashtra and Karnataka over Belgaum, here comes a territorial dispute of another sort. The Maharashtra Forest Department is in a bind over what to do with three elephants that strayed over from neighbouring Karnataka and caused havoc in …
Orissa plans to manage them WITH wildlife habitat getting fragmented, elephants are more frequently straying into urban areas and causing mayhem. On January 1, a herd of elephants entered the Berhampur University campus and went on a rampage near campus staff quarters. The son of a staff member was injured. …
Bokaro, Feb. 9: Having failed to rein in straying elephants, forest officials are now banking on villagers to lend them a helping hand. Village protection committees in Petarwar, Kasmar, Gomia and Jaridih have been entrusted with the task of preventing the elephants from entering the villages, destroying crops and damaging …
