Affidavit by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of Sisir Kumar Panda Vs Union of India & Others dated 20/05/2025. The issue pertained to the removal of illegal construction/obstruction caused by the state authorities as well as the private persons in the ecological sensitive zone …
72 tigers die in 6 months; increase patrolling, camera trappings, officials told With India recording 72 tiger deaths in the past six months, Project Tiger directors should take necessary steps to strengthen conservation measures, said Vaibhav C Mathur, Assistant Inspector General of Forests (AIGF) of National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA). …
The order does not ban the movement of local vehicles and ambulances. The movement of tourists vehicles and heavy vehicles on roads in Kali Tiger Reserve (earlier known as Anshi-Dandeli tiger reserve) has been banned from dusk to dawn. With this, night traffic in four tiger reserves in the State …
Why only tigers even birds which form part of the wild life ecosystem seems to be as important as other wild animals for the forest department officials. This is the reason which has prompted them to take up the census of birds in Cauvery wild life sanctuary encompassing the seven …
Camera-trapping helps big cat census, conservation The Forest department is all set to implement the camera-trapping method of keeping a track of tigers in the Yelandur range of the Biligiri Ranganathaswamy Temple (BRT) Tiger Reserve. The method is already in place, with 30 cameras keeping an eye on the movement …
People claim forest officials seized honey belonging to them; director says investigation is on Just three years after being conferred the tag of a tiger reserve, a controversy is brewing over community forest rights (CFR) granted to a community and a probable misuse of them in one of the Soliga …
For proper management of a wildlife reserve, it is essential to get estimates of occurrence, abundance, density and biomass of herbivores that in turn determine the density of carnivores. The Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary (BRT WLS) is a critical conservation region as it is a living bridge between the …
The Forest Department is all set to conduct a bird census in the Biligiriranganathaswamy Tiger (BRT) Reserve forest in November, after a gap of 15 years. The Biligiriranganabetta is a unique hill where the Eastern and Western Ghats meet. It is home to more than 1,000 varieties of plants. Twenty-four …
This study aims at consolidating information on Community Forest Right (CFR) status and issues in different states in India collected from groups and organizations working in the states including the lessons from the March 2012 consultation, in order to understand the ground level situation regarding their implementation and to provide …
About two years ago, a fire broke out in the Biligiri Rangaswami Temple Wildlife Sanctuary in Karnataka. The police arrested 35 community leaders of Soliga tribe for causing the fire. Five people still have cases against them. Yet the forest community recently submitted a bold proposal to the Centre advocating …
Chamarajanagar: Greens cry foul over plan to set up factory in the forest. On the brink: The agriculture land handed over by KIADB to set up industries near the BRT Hills tiger reserve near Modahalli in Kollegal taluk. DH photoThe decision of the Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB) to …
The 13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons that was held in Hyderabad earlier this month discussed the idea of the
The shiny, greenish-grey beans look no worse off for having passed through the Asian palm civet’s digestive system. “I can’t tell the difference between this coffee and my normal parchment coffee, but connoisseurs say it has a subtle nuttiness,” said septuagenarian coffee planter T S Ganesh, the only producer of …
Subhash Chandra N S Bangalore, Dec 27, DHNS: Elephants ranging along the borders of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are threatened by the outbreak of a new epidemic
Members of various progressive organisations have demanded an inquiry into alleged allocation of land in reserved forest of the Biligiri Ranganabetta Temple (BRT) sanctuary. In a press meet here, president of the Parisara Abhivrudhi Samithi D S Doreswamy told reporters that about 21,965 acres of areas in and around the …
The conversion of B R Hills reserve forest into a Tiger Reserve Forest has been approved by the Central Government. Earlier, the Centre had sought information about the BRT Sanctuary way back in 2005 and the same thing had been submitted by the State Government. With this the number of …
The Soliga tribe in the Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Hills of Chamarajanagar district of Karnataka has maintained a continuous and intimate interaction with the forest, deriving most of its basic requirements from the forests. The Soligas used to engage in shifting cultivation and collection of non-timber forest produce which was harvested …
