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 …
Kolkata, September 11 Wildlife experts and forest officials in West Bengal are caught in a strange dilemma when it comes to the growing human-elephant conflict in north Bengal. It is a price they are paying for the success story of elephant conservation, they say. With north Bengal boasting of a …
Dehra Dun, September 7 Carcass of a young male elephant was today recovered from the Najibabad forest area in Uttar Pradesh barely at a distance of 4 km from the Uttarakhand Motadhang area falling in the Lansdowne forest division. The state forest officials found a carcass of the elephant aged …
The Environment Ministry will soon formulate a national level action plan with new regulations with regard to tamed elephants to ensure their well-being, Environment Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka said. The regulations will comply with international conditions as well, the Minister told a ceremony at the Kotte Raja Maha Viharaya on …
In Sri Lanka nearly 120 elephants are killed by humans and in return about 65 people die after being attacked by elephants every year. The number of cases of elephants being killed or run over by trains could be reduced if the train staff take precautions by giving the elephants …
To restrain the growth of Kruger's elephant population, 14,562 animals were culled from 1967 to 1995, when South Africa banned the practice. "It was extraordinarily traumatic," says Ian Whyte, the park's longtime elephant specialist, who witnessed many of the culls. "You had to shut your mind to it, otherwise you'd …
Sumatra's endangered elephants and tigers should get a boost from an Indonesian government move to expand one of their last havens, a four-year-old national park on the island, conservation body WWF said on Thursday. But WWF warned that increased efforts would be vital to ensure that poaching and other illegal …
S. Anil Radhakrishnan KATTAKADA: Releasing the pachyderms Ammu, Minna and Jaysree to the enclosures, Minister for Forest Benoy Viswom inaugurated the first phase of the Elephant Rehabilitation Centre being set up at Kappucaud near Kottoor in the Agasthyavanam Biological Park. The Minister, who was accompanied by Varkala Radhakrishnan, MP; G. …
Rising elephant numbers in a protected forest park in Ghana are angering farmers whose crops are being raided in an unwanted side-effect of a plan to slow deforestation. Locals in Afiaso, a village of 620 people in southern Ghana with no electricity nor running water, grumble that they are seeing …
CHENNAI: The elephant population in the State is reasonably stable, according to R. Sukumar, professor and chairman of the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Prof. Sukumar, who was here recently, told The Hindu that in the past few years, the incidence of poaching had come down …
environment Jaipur halts limestone mining The Rajasthan government has denotified the region in and around Jaisalmer for limestone mining. Though the reason behind denotification is not clear, the move comes days after the government rejected applications by leading cement companies for mining lease in the region. Companies such as Mangalam …
In A unique move, the authorities at Rajaji National Park have undertaken a project to build an overpass above a stretch of railway tracks and a motorable road for the movement of elephants. Once completed, this 1.5-km stretch between Motichur railway crossing to Raiwala in Haridwar district will be the …
DH News Service, Somwarpet: A wild elephant attacked a farmer and injured him at Chikkara in Gowdalli on Sunday. The injured has been identified as G V Appaswamy. The incident occurred when he was walking towards his field in the morning. Though his wife alerted the neighbours, by the time …
Washington: A new research paper has warned that elephants face the thereat of extinction by 2020 because of a high fatality rate due to poaching. African elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory at a pace unseen since an international ban on the ivory trade took effect in 1989. But …
The Chhattisgarh forest department has issued orders to shoot a wild elephant responsible for the death of eight villagers in Jashpur district over a span of three months. Jashpur divisional forest officer O P Yadav told TOI,
THRISSUR: There is no dearth of examples to substantiate the observations made the other day by Sukumar Azhikode - 'expert opinions are often untrue, farce' - while inaugurating dharna against the proposed Athirappilly hydroelectric project here. An example is the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) on the project which was carried …
Marcus Dam KOLKATA: The authorities of tea gardens near the Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary in north Bengal have been asked by the State's wildlife authorities to control the spraying of chemical herbicides in the wake of the death of three elephants of poisoning within a span of 24 hours last week. …
Forest officials of Dalma wildlife sanctuary are frantically searching for experts to fix radio collars on elephants as funds for the purpose have been returned twice. From 2007, the Centre has been giving Rs 8 lakh per year to the state to get the radio tracking system rolling. Senior officials …
