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 …
From Shyam Sundar Vattam, Mysore: Authorities at the Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Park, Mysore, are finding hard to push for the adoption of elephants because of the 'jumbo' cost involved in it. There has been just one instance of a pachyderm being adopted. The zoo has fixed a sum of Rs …
Even as the government confirmed "cyanide poison in ragi balls" as a cause for the elephants' death, the Karnataka High Court on Friday directed the Forest Department to find out the culprits behind the episode in Kappasoge village near Nanjangud and submit a report before December 9. After registering a …
floods Kosi breach yet to be plugged The breach in the Kosi embankment that caused the devastating flood in Bihar may not be plugged before March 2009. The deadline for completion of the work was in November, but the state government extended it by four months. Though the government did …
DIBRUGARH, Nov 12: The Larua Janata Solar Fencing Protection Committee (LJSFPC) has urged upon the district administration to pay compensation to the farmers of Larua Kolakhowa area under Barbarua development block affected by elephant depredation. Elephants have been creating havoc at several villages, namely Bordoibaam, Majgaon, Do-kolakhowa, Baam Kolakhowa, Itakhuli, …
K. Raju PALANI: Even as two domesticated elephants have commenced on Monday their work to drive a herd of wild animals into interior forests, the task seems to be very tough for them to achieve. Wild animals that retreated into forests during a raid returned to the farms at night. …
DH News Service, Mysore: A herd of elephants once again appeared near Hediyala Forest area on the border of Nanjangud and Gundlupet taluk of Mysore district on Monday. Just 24 hours after forest personnel drove back the big herd of elephants into Chikkadevaraya Betta forests, it surfaced again. When forest …
K. Raju PALANI: A herd of wild elephants has damaged standing crops in the lower Palani hills. Coconut, guava, banana and sugarcane crops in several acres have been destroyed in the past 10 days. All efforts, including crude methods adopted by local people, to drive away the elephants have gone …
Bandipur/Nagarhole, DHNS: Call it an economics of villagers or woes of Karnataka forest department... Cattle grazing in the national parks and the resultant cow dung fetches a fortune to the farmers in and around Nagarahole and Bandipur. They sell it to the neighbouring Kerala, where organic farming is coming up …
By Subhash Chandra NS, DH News Service, Bandipur/Nagarhole: Hostile villagers, apathetic Government, corrupt power sector all seem to be against the elephants which are dying due to electrocution in Bandipur and Nagarhole ranges... The villagers in the periphery of the national parks vent their anger towards the beasts with several …
Within hours of the High Court issued a suo motu notice to State government on increasing elephant deaths, a meeting has decided to strengthen existing task force, form village committees and infuse additional funds to build up infrastructure to deal with wild elephants. These are some of the major decisions …
DH News Service, Bangalore: The alarming rate of serial deaths of elephants in recent days has prompted the Karnataka High Court to step in and demand an explanation from the public authorities concerned, both in the State and at the Centre. Taking suo motu cognisance of the serial death reports …
The 'serial killing' of elephants is cause for concern. They are known as gentle giants of our forests, but their end is getting increasingly painful and traumatic. The mounting elephant deaths in the State, particularly by electrocution, may make the rare sight of these majestic animals roaming the wild rarer. …
Agartala, Nov 5: The Tripura Government has decided to set-up an elephant reserve in the State to preserve the animal which had nearly disappeared due to large-scale poaching and migration to neighbouring Bangladesh. The latest census has shown that the population of the elephant has gone up from 38 in …
DIBRUGARH, Nov 5: Belying the claims of the Dibrugarh District Forest Department for spending around Rs 7 lakh for putting in place a solar energize fencing from Madhupur to Dihing Than village of Larua Mouza to prevent elephant depredation, a team of 50 pachyderm entered into and destroyed paddy fields, …
DH News Service, Mysore: In a tragic incident, four elephants including a mother and a calf have died under mysterious circumstances in Nanjangud taluk of Mysore district on Wednesday. While three elephants were found dead in an aqueduct built across Right Bank Canal of Kapila River near Kanenur village, another …
A Cameroon court sentenced a poacher to five years in jail and a hefty fine for killing eight elephants, a government official said on Tuesday. After a tip-off from villagers, a 23-strong search party of paramilitary gendarmes, government officials and park guards caught Job Akah, 33, with nine elephant tusks …
DH News Service, Bangalore: A wild tusker died due to electrocution when it came in contact with a live BESCOM wire lying low, at Bhoothanahalli near Bannerghatta National Park, on Monday night. The carcass was discovered on Tuesday morning. The 25-year-old tusker, along with two other elephants were coming out …
Delhi-based NGO will help in mapping corridor of migratory elephants of Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary. The NGO, which has expertise in drawing routes of elephants with meticulous details, including food habits, would work on the project from January when the migratory season comes to an end. Shidharth Tripathy, the Dalma divisional …
DEHRA DUN: It was a miraculous escape for Pratap Singh Pundir of Dhalwala near Rishikesh as he took shelter inside his house after being chased by an elephant on Wednesday night. The pachyderm pulled down part of the house before being chased away by villagers. Similarly, rampaging elephants damaged two …
