Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rajaram Vs State of Haryana dated 27/05/2025. By the execution application, the applicant was seeking compliance of the NGT order July 5, 2024 passed in OA No. 735/2024. In the OA, the applicant has raised the grievance in respect of …
Chennai: He is a concern those concerned with reducing man-animal conflicts in the state on the eve of International Tiger Day (July 29). As many as 4,000 families still live in the core areas of Anamalai, Sathyamangalam, Kalakkad-Mundanthurai and Mudumalai tiger reserves in Tamil Nadu. Worse, only in the Mudumalai …
To commence in Anamalai from January 4 Even as officials and volunteers commenced the annual tiger census at the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve in the Nilgiris, the Reserve has been declared ‘out-of-bounds’ for tourists from December 16 to December 23. Officials have roped in as many as 88 volunteers, and 36 …
The Anamalai Tiger Reserve will undertake a pre-monsoon census survey to enumerate the population of all the animals. The week-long survey will begin on May 13. The main objective of the survey, for which more than 150 ATR personnel, college students, wildlife enthusiasts and volunteers from non-governmental organisations will be …
Keeping wild elephants in captivity will cost the government crores of rupees. When elephants go wild, what solutions do we have? Do we keep them in captivity at an extra cost or do we release them back into the wild only to be a witness to elephant rampage again, asks …
The third synchronized all India tiger census that is held once in every four years will begin on Monday. For the next seven days, wildlife activists and forest lovers will traverse tiger habitats across the country and collect images and pug marks of big cats. Volunteers and forest staff would …
The Forest Department is going to train the Tamil Nadu Home Guards in handling man-animal conflict in the Valparai region, where elephants frequently enter the habitations causing damage to crops and houses. The training programme was inaugurated on Sunday and will cover the safety measures needed to avoid animal attacks. …
The first of its kind in State, it will be equipped with material for emergency situations. The State Forest Department has started an ‘Anti-Depredation and Disaster Management’ centre in Valparai in the Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR). The centre equipped with all material required for handling any disaster is the first …
Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday allocated Rs 2.81 crore for sinking of deep bore wells and building overhead tanks to supply water within forest areas, with a view to prevent wild animals from straying into human habitatations during the summer. The move would check the loss of lives and …
In an attempt to provide required water for wildlife and to reduce man-animal conflict, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Monday announced digging of borewells and construction of overhead water tanks in forest areas at a total cost of Rs. 2.81 crore. The Chief Minister in an announcement said that the borewells …
Sathyamangalam forest in Erode district has been declared a Tiger Reserve. It is the fourth such reserve in Tamil Nadu. The three other tiger reserves are at Mudumalai in the Nilgiris district, Anamalai in Coimbatore districtand Kalakad-Mundanthurai in Tirunelveli district. The Forest Department has received the Government Order declaring Sathyamangalam …
Census is carried out in tiger reserves and sanctuaries twice a year Nearly 1,000 persons including forest personnel, nature enthusiasts, environmentalists and members of Non-Governmental Organisation (NGOs) continued with the wildlife census in Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) for the second day on Friday. The five-day census to enumerate the wildlife …
Nearly 100 people to be involved in the exercise The five-day census to enumerate the wildlife population is all set to begin in the 958 sq km area spread over six ranges of Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) from Wednesday. Talking to The Hindu , Field Director of ATR Rajiv K. …
Heavy influx of elephants; more than 150 sighted in 16 places With human-animal conflict heightening in Valparai due to the influx of a number of elephants, Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) officials have stepped up conflict mitigation efforts by deploying more forest personnel to monitor herd movement and alert people. The …
The Parambikulam Tiger Reserve in Kerala and the adjacent Anamalai Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu were reopened for tourists on Tuesday after a gap of four months. Two other tiger reserves, Mudumalai and Kalakkadu in Tamil Nadu, were reopened for tourists last week after implementing the new guidelines issued by …
Wildlife biologists are looking into incidents of animals being run over on forest routes and its impacts on wildlife in Kerala. The study, pioneered by P.S. Easa of the Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi, will focus on the road between forest check-posts at Vazhachal and Malakapara and the stretch between …
The Deputy Director of Parambikulam Tiger Reserve K. Vijayanandan in a statement here on Friday has said that a joint perambulation of officials of Anamalai Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu and Parambikulam Tiger Reserve in Kerala was held on Thursday to discuss various inter state protection issues. During the joint …
A meeting of the officials of the four tiger reserves – Parambikulam in Kerala and Anamalai, Muthumalai and Kalakkadu in Tamil Nadu – have decided to reopen them for tourism next week after implementing the new guidelines issued by the Supreme Court on using 20 per cent of the area …
Certain section of population seeks relaxation of ban on tourism; specialists are against any dilution of the scheme The Tamil Nadu Government’s latest notifications on demarcation of core and buffer zones of three tiger reserves in the State may still require a fine-tuning to strike a balance among ecology protection, …
“Protect tigers but protect us too.” This is the appeal of several sections of society in Valparai, a hilly town located in the midst of lush green plantations and about 105 km from here. Contending that the Supreme Court’s recent decision to ban tourism in core zones has the scope …
Certain section of population seeks relaxation of ban on tourism; specialists are against any dilution of the scheme The government’s latest notifications on the demarcation of core and buffer zones of three tiger reserves in the State may still require a fine-tuning to strike a balance among ecology protection, tribal …
