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) …
D. Radhakrishnan Udhagamandalam: With drought related conditions at the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve deteriorating, the wildlife authorities have initiated steps to meet the water needs of the wild animals. Speaking to The Hindu here on Tuesday, the Field Director of the Reserve Rajiv K. Srivastava said that at present the situation …
Udhagamandalam: Despite the best possible efforts to contain bush fires in several parts of the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, fresh fires which are breaking out are posing a major challenge to wildlife officials. The fires are keeping the officials on their toes. A look at the sprawling 321-sq.-km. reserve from a …
Udhagamandalam: With dry conditions becoming a source of concern at the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve near here, a proposal has been sent to the government to close it from February 15. Disclosing this to presspersons here on Wednesday, the Field Director of the Reserve Rajeev K.Srivastava said that if the proposal …
R. Haldorai | Coimbatore WITH Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Chair man Anil Kakodkar committed to setting up the Rs.1000 crore India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) in the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve (NBR), the district
Udhagamandalam: A meeting of the Tamil Nadu Forest Staff Association, Gudalur and Mudumalai chapters, held at Gudalur on Sunday urged the Government to provide protection to the forest officials associated with the implementation of Project Tiger at Mudumalai and surroundings. Adverting to the recent targeting of the forest office at …
Udhagamandalam: The decision to bring the Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary near here under the Project Tiger umbrella cannot be reversed, said Rajeev Kumar Srivastava, Field Director, Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, here on Friday. Speaking to newspersons, he said that those affected by the project will be suitably compensated. To assist their rehabilitation …
Udhagamandalam: The opposition to the declaration of the Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary as a Tiger Reserve and consequent tightening of wildlife related rules took a new turn on Tuesday. A group of persons from Masinagudy and surroundings adjoining the reserve allegedly stormed into the office of the wildlife ranger Duraiswamy and …
Makkal Katchi Udhagamandalam: A demonstration to draw the attention of the Government to various livelihood issues was jointly organised by the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), the Tamil Nadu Farmers
Salvaged: A kumki elephant helping the wild elephant at the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve near Udhagamandalam on Tuesday. Udhagamandalam: A male elephant which was struggling to get out of a mud pit was rescued by a forest team headed by the Tiger Reserve veterinarian Kalaivanan at Ombetta, a part of Kargudi …
Deepa Kozhisseri Masinagudi residents are apprehensive of what Mudumalai tiger reserve holds for them. On July 15, inside the core of Mudumalai tiger reserve in Tamil Nadu, a group of workers waited for a jeep to take them to Masinagudi
D. Radhakrishnan UNAWARE OF DANGER: A deer darting across the road at Mavanhallah near the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve. UDHAGAMANDALAM: The pressure stemming from development should not allow the man-wildlife conflict to get out of hand. Adopting this approach, the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve near here has drawn up a plan to …
Masinagudi residents are apprehensive of what Mudumalai tiger reserve holds for them On July 15, inside the core of Mudumalai tiger reserve in Tamil Nadu, a group of workers waited for a jeep to take them to Masinagudi
The only relocation on the anvil is for 320 tribal families in the core area. These families want relocation and have even petitioned the Madras High Court. The only tribals who will continue to live in the core are those employed by the forest department as anti-poaching watchers and mahouts. …
The elephant of the Samayapuram Mariamman temple will be handed over to the Forest Department. The Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment Department has issued an order to shift the pachyderm immediately. The 19-year old male elephant, Mariappan, has often been turning restive for the past couple of years causing anxiety …
Walking through the Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary on a misty morning is a cherishing experience. Pushing through the bed of grass bathed in morning mist, hearing the melancholic strains of the Malabar Whistling Thrush (Myophonus horsfieldi), one can spend a solitary morning in communion with nature. The reverie, however, might be …
SEVEN-and-a-half ha of fertile swampland, ideally suited for paddy cultivation, and endowed with several species of commercially valuable trees like rosewood and teak, would seem like a bequest to trumpet about. But for 60-year-old Raghavan Chettiar, the inheritance of just such a plot in Tamil Nadu"s Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary has …
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 …
