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 …
By Shyam Sundar Vattam,DH News Service,Mysore: Stuck with no leads in the inquiry into mysterious death of four elephants in Nanjangud taluk last month, the Forest Department is mulling over entrusting the case to Corps of Detectives (CoD). Highly placed sources told Deccan Herald that the idea of referring the …
Jeevan Chinnappa DUBARE ELEPHANT CAMP (KODAGU DT.): A five-day hunt to capture a wild elephant ended dramatically in the Maldare forest area in Kodagu on Tuesday with the capture of the animal by Forest Department officials. This came as a relief to the people of Maldare. The operation to track …
The Department of Forest began its search operation for rogue tuskers, which have been causing damage to farm land and properties in the region, here on Wednesday. Four deaths have occurred in Nanjarayapatna, Valnuru, Elane Hosakote, Thonduru, Maldare, Siddapura and the nearby regions, due to rogue elephant attacks. The operation …
By Shyam Sundar Vattam, DH News Service, Mysore: Kyata, a nine-year-old tusker, which is presently in a camp at Moorkal in Hunsur taluk of Mysore district for killing its mahout in K Gudi Forests of Chamarajanagar District last month, is in the news again. This time, the tusker broke an …
By Subhash Chandra NS, DH News Service, Bangalore: The attempts to trace the roots of man-elephant conflict in the State has come out with an interesting finding. Dr Basappanavar, a former Chief Conservator of Forests and an expert appointed to assist the High Court in the matter of serial deaths …
By Kumuda H, DH News Service, Mysore: The recent serial deaths of elephants which the High Court took suo motu cognisance of, has compelled the Forest Department authorities to explore tram fence option, popularly known as Armstrong fence as a cost-effective and harmless barrier to prevent straying of jumbos into …
Even as a series of elephant deaths that rocked the State is yet to fade from public memory, another tusker was found electrocuted near Madihalli in Alur taluk of the district on Saturday night. The 30-year-old tusker came into contact with an electric fence as it attempted to enter a …
New home for Dalma herd in season of harvest - Tuskers cosy up in bamboo grove developed by forest department, calf born on Sunday Migrating tuskers from Dalma have found shelter in Charchakka forest For the first time, tuskers from Dalma have found the perfect shelter. Their new home has …
The consequences of human-elephant conflict are not only of key conservation concern but also are major socio-economic and political issues. Therefore, resolution of human-elephant conflict is a major concern and a high priority for conservation of elephants in range countries. Influx of humans and conversion of natural habitat to human …
The online auction site eBay has promised to ban ivory sales after investigators found thousands of items made from elephant tusks on sale. However, the new policy goes into effect in January, 2009 and eBay will continue to allow antiques that contain only small amounts of ivory on the site, …
Move over traditional tracking devices, the cell phone just got handier. Kenyan authorities now have their phones buzzing with text messages from elephants, warning the officials of their unauthorized presence in villagers
Damaged crops and helpless farmers. This is a common scene in the region every harvest season. Not only the elephants destroy hundreds of acres of standing paddy crops, but also cause widespread damage to houses in the locality. As per reports, at least 750 hectares of standing paddy crops have …
DH News Service,Mysore: To check the growing wild elephant-human conflicts, In-charge Deputy Conservator of Forests Yatish Kumar mooted a plan on the lines of South Africa to prevent wild elephants straying into human habitat in Mysore and Chamarajanagar districts. In South Africa, railway tracks have been used as fence and …
Tirupati, Nov. 26: Several villages continue to be in the grip of fear as the herd of 13 elephants that damaged standing crop in Bangarupalem mandal in Chittoor district have not left the area. Officials of the forest and revenue departments stood guard at the villages only till late in …
More than three dozen elephants have been killed after being hit by trains between Siliguri and Alipurduar railway stations in the North East Frontier Railway in the past eight years and yet neither the state government nor the railway board seems to have an answer to stop the rising cases …
Once a killer track, Rajaji Park has seen no elephant deaths in six years, writes prernasinghbindra Over the past six years, over 70 elephants have been killed in train accidents across India
KOCHI: A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Tuesday restrained the Forest Department from taking into possession an elephant offered by Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa to the Rajarajeswari Temple at Thaliparamaba in Kannur until further orders. The Bench comprising Justice P.R. Raman and Justice T.R. Ramachandran Nair …
H D Kote: Deputy Conservator of Forests Shaswathi Mishra has promised to prevail upon the state government to disburse a compensation of Rs 1.5 lakh to the family of a forest watcher who was trampled to death by wild elephants near Yerekattemala Forest area of H D Kote Taluk last …
According to the recent survey conducted by the Department of Wildlife Conservation, it has been revealed that during the past nine months of 2008, 60 wild elephants have died and 24 human beings have died following attacks by wild elephants in the North Western zone of the wildlife conservation. A …
