Affidavit filed by the Chief Wildlife Warden, Assam in the matter of news item titled "the last feral horses in India" appearing in Mongabay, November 5, 2024. The matter relates to the critically endangered status of feral horses in the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park as well as of smuggling of these …
The Bandipur National Park situated in the Western Ghats of Karnataka State, is one of the biodiversity hotspots of the world. During recent years, this park has witnessed repeated fires, affecting considerable areas under vegetation. The temporal satellite data from 1997 to 2006 have been analyzed to map the burnt …
By Subhash Chandra N S,DH News Service,Bangalore: D Rajkumar, member of IFAW-WTI's Emergency Relief Network (ERN) and founder, Wildlife Conservation Foundation, and Karnataka Forest Department had revealed that, Atleast three large animals (of the size of a deer or bigger) are killed every month. So far, the deaths include tigers, …
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 …
A four-horned antelope, an endangered species, has found a shelter in a farmer's house in Siddaianakote near Jagalur in Davangere district. The animals had strayed from the nearby forest recently. The antelope had strayed into the house from the nearby forest in Gurusiddapura about three months back. Later, former taluk …
India's heritage of natural habitats and wild species is under growing threat from its biomass-dependent rural peoples and its consumeristic urban economy. As the mainstay of its wildlife conservation effort, then, India's wildlife reserves continue to face a range of extractive uses. The Indian conservation/development discourse has, however, drawn a …
It's hard to tell who was the first in the village to really strike upon the business idea. But very soon everyone in Hangala was part of it. The sleepy and dry village at the periphery of Bandipur National Park, Karnataka, had in a mere two year's time, transformed itself …
the Union ministry of environment and forests (moef) has taken Karnataka to task over the implementation of an administrative reorganisation plan by the state forest department (fd) in May. In a sternly worded letter to the chief secretary of Karnataka, the moef reprimanded the state fd for placing two protected …
Madhavappa owns a farm just a kilometre from the boundary of the famous Bandipur Project Tiger Reserve close to Hangala, a largish village in the Chamrajnagara district of Karnataka. On this he cultivates ragi or finger millet. I met him in this field where his young relative was killed the …
Ranging behaviour of the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) was studied using radio telemetry in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve had home ranges of over 500 sq km. These sizes are much larger than those defined by earlier studies. The study ranged across the three southern states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and …
