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 …
In a major boost to cross-border wildlife conservation, India and Nepal have joined hands to secure the key Boom-Brahmadev corridor connecting the Haldwani forest division in Uttarakhand and the Kanchapur forest division in Nepal. The corridor is significant as a critical passage for tigers, elephants and rhinos across the two …
The problems facing wild elephants in India differ from forest to forest and from one state to another. So does the nature of human-elephant conflict, and wildlife experts say the problem needs to be tackled on a case-by-case basis in lieu of a generic one. This was the outcome at …
Seven wild elephants died of accidents in Galgamuwa, Kurunegala last year, a senior official attached to the Wildlife Department said. Meanwhile, 10 human deaths and six wild elephant deaths were reported from the area in 2013, he said. Meanwhile, 150 houses were damaged by elephants in 2014 while 25 dwelling …
SURAT: The Nature Club of Surat (NCS), an NGO working for the environment education and animal welfare, has initiated a survey in coordination with the forest department to establish the exact population of crocodiles in and around the city. The survey, first-of-its-kind in south Gujarat, has been undertaken after more …
The Nature Conservation Foundation, in collaboration with the Forest department, has begun a study to ascertain the population density of leopards in the State, as Karnataka lacks scientific data on leopards. The project on leopard ecology and conflict, will be covering five protected areas and five territorial divisions, spread over …
Odisha Erects Fences, Herds Pushed To Bengal Bengal and Odisha are in a tussle over the Dalma elephants again. With the locals in Odisha digging trenches along its border with West Midnapore to thwart the jumbos from crossing over to their side, the Bengal foresters fear the elephants will be …
Here are some new insights into why leopards stray into human habitats regularly. A study taken up in the Bhadravati forest division of Shimoga district shows there are 44 leopards in the area: Meaning as many as 11 leopards in a 100sqkm area. Experts say this could be one of …
The use of System Rice Intensification, an advanced methodology in paddy farming, has enabled farmers in Nepal, to double their output. Using this improved technology, farmers can grow paddy with less water and it has also helped to minimize production costs compared to the traditional way of farming. Read more …
In a rapidly changing landscape highly impacted by anthropogenic activities, the great apes are facing new challenges to coexist with humans. For chimpanzee communities inhabiting encroached territories, not bordered by rival conspecifics but by human agricultural fields, such boundaries are risky areas. To investigate the hypothesis that they use specific …
The forests in Wayanad, a district with the highest forest cover in the state, are inadvertently paying the price for the Malayali’s love for beef. Thousands of bovines are turned loose into the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary (WWS) and other forests daily by the fast mushrooming commercial buffalo farms. The farms …
Nagpur: Even as all major political parties are leaving no stone unturned to woo voters in the region during the last-minute campaigning for the state assembly elections, vital issues pertaining to forest, wildlife and environment have been missing from top leaders' agenda, and even manifestos. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress …
CHITWAN, Oct 13:Incidents of tigers mauling local people in the buffer zone of Chitwan National Park (CNP) have been on the rise over the past few months. Of late, as many as five local people have lost their lives in tiger attacks. Of them, two were killed by tigers in …
Accusing Chhattisgarh government of turning a blind eye to human-elephant conflict, Greenpeace India, a global NGO, urged the Centre and state government to avoid auctioning forest land for mining activity. Such conflicts claim almost 25 human lives every year. Greenpeace alleged Chhattisgarh government was keen on mining in forests, rather …
Human-elephant conflict (HEC) in Chhattisgarh started with 18 elephants migrating in the late 80s from the neighbouring states of Odisha and Jharkhand and over the years the migration increased. The estimation of elephant population in 2012 stands at 247. When the elephants in search of new habitats come into contact …
The West Bengal government has informed the Supreme Court that it was only evaluating the feasibility and suitability of a WWF-India pilot project proposing administering contraceptive drugs on wild elephants in north Bengal to manage their rapidly increasing population. However, it denied the allegation that it was practicing this to …
Many prey species around the world are suffering declines due to a variety of interacting causes such as land use change, climate change, invasive species and novel disease. Recent studies on the ecological roles of top-predators have suggested that lethal top-predator control by humans (typically undertaken to protect livestock or …
Lantana, a kind of poisonous weed, keeps increasingly eating into the fodder banks in the Terai pocket and other zones of Uttarakhand forests, resulting in growing number of man-animal conflicts and depletion of drinking water table. This revelation has come as a cause of grave concern for the conservationists. Among …
A major initiative by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (previously known as Project Tiger) to eliminate man-animal conflict and save hundreds of human lives as well as wildlife is coming to a naught in Tamil Nadu due to apathy and callousness of a section of junior level officials in the …
The Supreme Court has restrained West Bengal from taking steps to administer “any kind of contraceptives” or methods of sterilisation to curb the rising elephant population in the state. A Bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Vikramjit Sen said the government’s attempt is “regressive, absolutely impermissible and also condemnable”. The …
Conserving wildlife while simultaneously meeting the resource needs of a growing human population is a major sustainability challenge. As such, using combined social and environmental perspectives to understand how people and wildlife are interlinked, together with the mechanisms that may weaken or strengthen those linkages, is of utmost importance. However, …
