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 …
AGPUR: The state forest department pays about Rs 5 crore annually to farmers as compensation for crop depredation by wild animals. To reduce this burden, the wildlife wing has now decided to promote 'chili smoke', a cost-effective technique pioneered by wildlife vet and elephant expert Dr Rudraditya. Himachal Pradesh-based Dr …
Large areas of Namibia are covered by farmland, which is also used by game and predator species. Because it can cause conflicts with farmers when predators, such as cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus), hunt livestock, we assessed whether livestock constitutes a significant part of the cheetah diet by analysing the stable isotope …
While tiger conservation efforts in the country have started giving encouraging results, tiger biologists fear a probable increase in human-wildlife conflict if prompt measures are not taken to deal with excessive population of tigers in some landscapes. Senior tiger biologist at the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) Qamar Qureshi, who …
Kolkata: Senior foresters from Bengal, Jharkhand, Odisha and Chhattisgarh, in a joint meeting held almost after a decade on Wednesday, pledged to work together to allow free passage to the elephants that usually venture out of Jharkhand's Dalma sanctuary every year and move towards Chhattisgarh, Bengal and Odisha using their …
The forest department is planning new rules in the Sunderbans, that according to them, would check man-tiger conflict. The department, in a recent proposal, said that it's planning to discourage use of clay ovens by villagers during fishing trips. They have made it clear that the idea is to stop …
Sri Lanka currently had a healthy elephant population, but it was under threat due to land fragmentation and the lack of elephant corridors, Wildlife Conservation Department (WCD) Director General H. D Ratnayake said yesterday. In Sri Lanka annually around 200 – 300 elephants died and around 250-300 were born, he …
The human-leopard conflict in Uttarakhand continues unabated especially in the mountainous regions of the State with an old man being killed in his courtyard following a leopard attack past Tuesday midnight at a village in Ghansali. The latest attack being the second such incident in the region within a month, …
Environmentalists are concerned about the rising incidents of elephants raiding farms for food and other conflict situations with humans in Uttarakhand. They point out that decrease in fodder species in the jungles, human encroachments and crop patterns are influencing the movement of elephants and exacerbating the human-pachyderm conflict which could …
The dwindling number of habitat as a result of massive deforestation has increased the trend of tigers entering human settlements in search of prey in recent times. Over the past five years, 21 people living near the Chitwan National Park (CNP) and buffer zones have lost their lives to tiger …
A 32-year-old woman died after being attacked by a wild elephant at Nijgadh Municipality-8 in the district on Tuesday. The deceased has been identified as Parwati Majhi of Kanakpur-5, Rautahat. With this incident, as many as 12 people have died in attacks by wild elephants in the district in the …
Amid the ongoing legal battle for the translocation of the Asiatic lions from Gir forest in Gujarat to Kuno Palpur Wildlife Sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh, shocking data of lion deaths and incidents of attack on humans by the wild cats including lions in and around Gir Sanctuary in last two …
Asian big cats (including tiger, snow leopard, clouded leopards, and subspecies of leopard, cheetah and lion) are listed in the top three categories of threat on the IUCN Red List, with illegal trade included among the threats to their survival. They are all included in CITES Appendix I, so that …
Driven to desperation, a crowd of over 300 agitated local tribals protested and pelted stones at forest officer's residence when elephants destroyed houses of more than three families at Dharamjaigarh block in Raigarh district late on Saturday. About six people were arrested after the protest. Tribals have been bearing the …
Against the backdrop of an escalating man-elephant conflict triggered by degraded habitats of the Chirang-Ripu Elephant Reserve in BTAD, local communities have joined hands with voluntary organisations and the Forest Department to restore vast stretches of fragmented wildlife habitat. Over 300 villagers participated in a forest restoration drive along the …
Without any crop insurance scheme with the financial institutions in the country, officials of the Royal Manas National ark (RMNP) helped the farmers form an insurance management group in 2012 and created a group account with Bank of Bhutan. The park deposited Nu 100,000 as seed money and each member …
LUCKNOW: In UP, the eco-sensitive zone around national parks wildlife sanctuaries does not go beyond 100 metres. The ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) says 10 km around notified protected areas should be marked as an eco-system zone but UP has not proposed marking more than 100 metres as the …
DHERADUN: Permission for commercial activity for the benefit of pilgrims taking part in the month-long Shravanmas Kanwar mela, which starts from July 13, on an 8 km stretch between Swargashram and Neelkanth temple in the Gohri range of Rajaji National Park (RNP), has been denied by RNP director SP Subudhi …
Herds of elephants came from the Chitwan National Park have wreaked havoc at a settlement in Madi, southern belt of the district since four days. The tuskers destroyed the houses of Hom Bahadur Pariyar and Shukra Bahadur Shrestha in Madi. Park scouts are in high alert as the animals have …
Conflicts between humans and non-human primates are recognized as major issues in conservation of primates. Crop damage caused by primates is one of the most wide spread and common examples of human-nonhuman primate conflicts in areas where local people are mainly subsistence farmers. Various forms of human-wildlife conflicts occur with …
With leopard-human conflict rising in some of the villages bordering the Rajaji national park, the field director of the national park has stressed on the need for policy decisions to ensure a proper solution to this problem. A leopard was killed in the Aurangabad village bordering Rajaji by villagers earlier …
