Order of the High Court of Tripura in the matter of Court on its own motion Vs The Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare & Others dated 09/01/2025. The HC was informed that National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) has granted approval for establishing two new Facility-integrated ART Centres (Fi-ARTC) …
The Forest Department officials on Friday arrested five persons and seized a tiger pelt at Masinagudi near Bandipur, close to Mudumalai National Park. The seizure has worried the officials of both Bandipur and Nagarhole National Parks about the safety of the striped cats. This incident has proved that tiger poachers …
D.Radhakrishnan Udhagamandalam: Dry conditions have become a source of concern in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) near here, according to the Field Director of the reserve Rajiv K.Srivastava. A proposal was in the process of being sent to the Chief Wildlife Warden to temporarily close the reserve, he told The …
The six-day wildlife census with focus on tigers began on Saturday. Chief Wildlife Warden R. Sundararaju told The?Hindu at Kotagiri on Sunday that five tigers had been sighted in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve. He said that one tiger was sighted in the Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve and pug marks were …
Patrolling has been intensified in dry areas; situation to be reviewed end of the month Photo: Special Arrangement Not to be disturbed: Elephants crossing the road at the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve near Udhagamandalam.
V.S. Palaniappan SHARING A POINT: Union Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh having a word with the principal Jose T.Mathew (left), during his visit to the Central Academy for State Forest Service in Coimbatore on Sunday. Coimbatore: Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests (Independent charge) Jairam Ramesh …
R. Ramachandran New Delhi: The government has decided against locating a Neutrino Observatory (INO), an underground experimental physics project, at Singara in the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu. Instead, the Ministry of Environment and Forests has suggested that the project, proposed by the Department of Atomic Energy, be moved to …
Rajesh Gopal, who heads the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), will soon submit a report on ecological impact of a proposed Rs 900-crore mega science project in a tiger reserve in Tamil Nadu which has drawn flak from the green brigade. Gopal had visited the proposed site for Neutrino Observatory …
D. Radhakrishnan Udhagamandalam: Even as the Mudumalai-Bandipur road across the Nilgiris-Karnataka border continues to be in the news on account of the ban imposed recently on vehicular movement during night to protect wild animals, an incident on Monday has brought into sharp focus the threat posed by speeding vehicles to …
Forest Secretary Debendranath Sarangi (second from left), addressing a meeting in Udhagamandalam on Wednesday. Udhagamandalam: High priority is being accorded to the protection of elephant corridors, said Forest Secretary Debendranath Sarangi while speaking to journalists here on Wednesday. Pointing out that a special team was formed to survey the corridors, …
Udhagamandalam: Sans nature there cannot be any eco-tourism, said Mudumalai Tiger Reserve Field Director Rajiv K. Srivastava while delivering the valedictory address at a University Grants Commission sponsored national-level conference on
Forest department monitoring movement of strangers Forest department staff visiting villages in border areas Forest staff being assisted by STF personnel Udhagamandalam: Vigil has been stepped up in various parts of the Nilgiris North Forest Division adjoining the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve following reports of poachers from some parts of North …
Focus on blanket sellers from UP and MP Villagers asked to report movement of strangers Monsoon patrolling begun in the forests COIMBATORE: The Department of Forests is carrying out to a drive to check offences in the Pollachi forests. This follows a tip off by the Q Branch Police to …
D.Radhakrishnan Udhagamandalam: Vigil has been stepped up at the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve near here, according to the Field Director of the reserve Rajiv K.Srivastava. Speaking to The Hindu here on Saturday, he said that the reserve had been informed that some poachers who had been active in the North were …
Enumerators told to focus on till now neglected fauna Collecting details: Forest officials and volunteers participating in the wildlife census operation at the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, near Udhagamandalam, on Sunday.
From his lookout atop an 80- foot-tall tree, Gopal could see the forests in three states burning simultaneously last fortnight. Even though fires are not unusual at this time of year in the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve (NBR)
P. Oppili CHENNAI: A black leopard was sighted in the Masinagudi range of the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve in January this year. The four-year-old adult male was trapped in a camera set up by a team of researchers from the Wildlife Institute of India, who have been running a research project …
