Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Giri Gobardhan Forest Committee Vs State of Odisha & Others dated 15/05/2025. The Applicant Giri Gobardhan Forest Committee has filed the application alleging illegal felling of trees over an area of around 5 acres within the …
A district council meeting of the Kerala Forest Protective Staff Association (KFPSA) held here on Tuesday expressed concern over the increasing human-wildlife conflict in Wayanad district. The government was yet to take any positive measures to tackle the issue, the association said. As the voluntary relocation project being executed by …
Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh today said the man-animal conflict could be avoided if awareness was spread among the people about the behaviour pattern, movement and habits of leopards. “We have been living in proximity to wild cats since centuries and a few scary incidents of conflict between both was a …
In a move to resolve increasing man-animal conflict, especially those causing damages to crops, the Environment Ministry today said it has sought report from the states to declare certain overpopulated animals as vermin for a limited period of time. Once declared vermin, that particular species can be hunted without restriction. …
Human–tiger conflicts have been a major issue in the Terai-Arc Landscape (TAL), in northern India, ever since human settled in the region. For managing such issues, authorities are compelled to eliminate/relocate tigers whenever there is recurrent killing of human beings. But identifying the individual tiger/tigress, involved in conflicts has remained …
The success of conservation efforts in increasing the population of lions in Gujarat — the only abode of the endangered big cats — makes it difficult to believe that as recently as 1964, you could legally hunt these lions just for a fee of Rs 300, And this was possible …
Uttarakhand is all set to conduct leopard census in December. The last census in 2008 revealed the presence of 2,343 leopards in the state. Taking into account the rise in large number of cases of man-leopard conflict in Uttarakhand in the recent years, the census is expected to reveal a …
The African elephant risks being extinct by 2025 if urgent action is not taken, an animal trust has said. David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust said it is estimated that one elephant is killed every 15 minutes as a result of Asia's demand for ivory. Climate change, habitat degradation and loss, forest …
Farmers around Mt Longonot National Park have asked the Kenya Wildlife Service to stop wild animals from invading their farms. They say the animals, mostly buffaloes, have destroyed crops worth millions of shillings. "Since the onset of the long rains, the number of wild animals has risen at an alarming …
The rising leopard population in the region has resulted in frequent human-animal conflicts over the past five years. Leopards straying into farms have claimed 12 human lives and caused 6,603 animal deaths since 2010. Foresters said there have been 10 incidents of leopard straying and/or attacking human beings or animals …
NASHIK: Animal activists agitated in front of the office of the chief conservator of forests (territorial) Nashik Circle on Thursday demanding action against the officials, who they claimed were responsible for the death of a leopard in Chandwad. The one-and-a-half-year old leopard fell to its death inside a well in …
Sariska Tiger Sanctuary (STR) in Rajasthan’s Alwar is facing unusually slow multiplication of the big cat population mainly due to large scale miscarriages suffered by its tigresses. The tiger re-introduction programme, the first of its kind in the world, was taken up in the sanctuary in 2008 as there were …
On the Valparai plateau in southern India people live in fear of unexpected encounters with giants in the dark. As dusk settles, tea and coffee pickers collect rations from the townships run by the corporations that own the plantations and drift back towards their colonies. Buses drop workers on the …
The recent cases of leopards attacking small children in Junnar taluka of Pune once again brings to light the problem of man-animal conflict. Experts point out that such incidents have historically occurred during the sugarcane cutting season when the paths of humans and leopards invariably cross. Due to the presence …
Twenty persons have been killed and around 300 injured during the incidents of human animal conflict in Jammu and Kashmir in the past one year. The officials at wildlife department revealed that though there had been a steep increase in man- animal encounters during past several years yet such incidents …
The man-animal conflict in the state has claimed 14 human lives and 211 persons were injured in attack by wild animals during 2014-15, highlighting the situation arising out of encroachment of forests by people. The maximum number of attacks were reported from the Kashmir valley and mountainous areas of Jammu. …
Even as incidents of man-animal conflict has been occurring with alarming frequency in Nilgiris, such incidents have seen a drop in Coimbatore forest division. Five people were killed by wild elephants from April 2014 - March 2015 as against 18 deaths in the previous year. Forest authorities say that fatalities …
Trashing speculation following the spate of recent incidents of human-leopard conflict which indicated that leopard numbers were on the rise, a study conducted by three wildlife scientists has found that the leopard population, on the contrary, has declined by a whopping 70-80 per cent over the past 100 years. The …
Three women were trampled to death by a herd of wild elephants in Kartala forests range of Korba district, officials informed here on Sunday. The victims had gone to a village for gathering ‘Mahua’ from the forest where they confronted a herd of wild elephants where the incident took place, …
The World Wide Fund for Nature (Kenya) has launched the Lion Lights project in Emarti village, Kajiado. The project aims to reduce increasing human-wildlife conflicts. Lion Lights are an automated solar lighting systems designed to deter large predators from killing livestock in enclosures. The intermittent flashing lights simulate the movement …
There is a proposal to form a Rapid Response Team to deal with situations arising from man-wild animal conflicts, said The Nilgiris Collector P. Sankar here on Wednesday. Stating that it has been sent to the government, he told presspersons that it would be trained and equipped to deal with …
