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 …
Forest department helpless in checking jumbos straying out Frequent transfer of officers posted to Bannerghatta National Park (BNP) and, increasing human habitat has made the Forest department helpless in checking the growing man-animal conflict. This has resulted in elephants straying out of the forests in the region, wildlife experts opine. …
AHMEDABAD: Madhya Pradesh is a major poaching ground with a strong gun culture. This was the finding of Empower Foundation, a Mumbai based NGO working on Sanjay Gandhi National Park's man-animal conflict. The NGO in its report submitted to the forest department has stated that lions should not be translocated …
PUNE: Low-cost methods like torches, chillies and bee cultivation, suggested by Pune-based researchers, have helped farmers in northern Karnataka protect their crops from marauding elephants. "The project, implemented over the past three years in Dandeli-Anshi Tiger Reserve in northern Karnataka, has begun to bear results. Farmers from 35 villages who …
It Has Led To Several Man-Animal Conflicts And Forest Fragmentation Pune: Around 72,463 hectares of forest land in the state has been encroached upon, that has led to several man-animal conflicts over the last few years and also forest fragmentation. Latest data from the forest department reveals that these encroachments …
In 2011, a suicidal man released his pet lions, tigers and other animals into the forests of Zanesville, US. The reaction of locals contrasts starkly with that of Indian villagers who share their landscape with dangerous charismatic megafauna. India's greater tolerance towards wildlife should be responsibly leveraged to foster its …
NAGPUR: Taking serious note of the TOI report on Thursday about suspected killing of 11 tigers in Vidarbha and neighbouring Madhya Pradesh in the last two months by organized poachers belonging to the notorious Baheliya community of Katni, the rattled National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) sought factual report from the …
Wildlife Conservation Society Completes Survey Using Advanced Camera-Trap Method The state is set to get an accurate count of tigers in Wayanad forests in a month. The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has completed the counting of the big cats with advanced camera trap studies. Even the last tiger count conducted …
Over two lakh saplings being raised for distribution The Forest Department will distribute over two lakh saplings, free of cost, to residents of Virudhunagar district for improving the green cover. The spadework has begun and the distribution exercise will begin in October, according to a top official. Being a dry …
Sickness and infection owing to lack of water take their toll Despite the forest department’s efforts to improve protection for elephants, the Sathyamangalam forests lost seven jumbos in the last two weeks. One of them, aged about 22 years, died due to electrocution in Siddhankuttai on Tuesday. Though a majority …
Cities are creaking under their own weight. And heat. In Surat, for instance, parts of the city with dense concrete jungles swelter at temperatures 5 degrees higher than the city’s greener parts. This phenomenon, of parts of a city having higher temperature than the remaining areas, is called an ‘urban …
Srinagar, June 2 : The government has resorted to the use of the most dreaded pepper in the world, Bhut Jolokia or ghost pepper to ward off wild animals. The move is aimed at reducing the man-animal conflict in the state that has taken a heavy toll in recent years. …
Forest Department suggests need for creation of more artificial water source. The Forest department has prepared proposals for the total habitat improvement in Sathyamangalam forests, which has become the fourth tiger reserve in the State two months ago. Spread over more than 1.40 lakh hectares, the Sathyamangalam jungle has a …
It is a gesture of a tribal village in Karbi Anglong hill district of Assam that is bound to be considered as a milestone in the conservation of elephants in the country. “To help secure a migration corridor for elephants in North-East India and thereby reducing the number of human-elephant …
The state Wildlife Department will get a fresh population estimation of leopards, snow leopards and monkeys done with the help of experts who will suggest ways and means to reduce man-animal conflict resulting in increased attacks by wild animals. Experts from an NGO headed by Vidya Athreya, a wildlife biologist, …
Hardly two months after the Sathyamangalam wildlife sanctuary was classified as a tiger reserve by the Union environment ministry, three new roads being laid in the forest area has invited the wrath of green activists. They believe the roads will disrupt and disturb wildlife in the region. Interestingly, two of …
Karbis script conservation history Jorhat, May 8: A Karbi village is about to script history by relocating for the sake of elephants. Ram Terang village, comprising 19 families, is expected to shift to a new location by the end of this year. This extraordinary gesture, followed by the relocation of …
A wild bear mauled eight people, including two women, to death and injured eight others in a forest in Odisha's Koraput district before being killed by villagers, an official said Sunday. The female bear attacked people Saturday and Sunday when in the forest near their villages in Kotpad area of …
Most translocation efforts by Forest Department have been successful The Forest Department has embarked upon a challenging task of mitigating animal-human conflicts in the periphery of forest areas by capture and translocation of wildlife responsible for such conflicts. Translocation is the transport and release of wild animals from one location …
The man-animal conflict in J-K has escalated with the state recording at least 195 deaths of civilians, mostly villagers, and critical injuries to 2,610 persons in the last seven years. Almost two or three man-animal conflict reports are being received daily from different parts of the state, particularly hilly regions. …
The pride of Gujarat will have to be shared with Madhya Pradesh this year, with the Supreme Court ruling that some of the Asiatic lions currently found only in the famed Gir sanctuary must be shifted to Madhya Pradesh within six months. However, the Centre’s dreams of bringing another big …
