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 …
Centre plans to preserve elephant habitats, thereby reducing human-animal conflict Guwahati, Dec. 24: The ministry of environment and forests is working out a process to provide legal status to elephant reserves and corridors, which will help the Northeast most, as it not only has the largest presence of elephant corridors …
The increasing incidence of man-animal conflict in northern Kerala have prompted wildlife researchers to go to the root cause of the issue. Besides the straying of tigers and leopards into human habitations in some districts, human-elephant conflicts were reported from Palakkad and Malappuram districts. The incidents were relatively new in …
As the winter sets in, elephants come out of their shrinking habitat in Assam and enter human settlements in search of food, creating havoc in many areas by damaging property and even causing loss of human life. Wildlife conservationists in the state cry foul over increasing encroachment by humans on …
Legislators cutting across party lines today expressed concern over the growing man-animal conflict, especially involving elephants, and urged the Government to evolve a holistic mechanism to resolve the issue, The legislators were unanimous that growing deforestation and encroachment on forests were compelling the wildlife to come out and invade human …
They’ve been captured on camera. Wildlife officials now want to tag satellite collars on the elusive and highly endangered snow leopard in the steep and rocky cliffs of Himachal Pradesh’s Spiti Valley, the country’s first collaring attempt on this wildcat species. The officials say radio collaring will assist them in …
The Assam government today said it would install solar power fencing to check the increase in straying of elephants from their shrinking habitats into human settlements. Forest minister Rakibul Hussain made the commitment while answering a query posed by Congress legislator S. Basumatary regarding elephant depredation in Goalpara district, on …
Heavy influx of elephants; more than 150 sighted in 16 places With human-animal conflict heightening in Valparai due to the influx of a number of elephants, Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) officials have stepped up conflict mitigation efforts by deploying more forest personnel to monitor herd movement and alert people. The …
The human-elephant conflict has intensified in Sathyamangalam region as the number of crop raids has witnessed a sharp rise. In the last few weeks, the region saw more than 30 elephant raids that resulted in heavy economic loss to the farmers. A farmer in a remote village in Thalamalai had …
With a steep decline in the forest area due to large-scale commercialisation, the population of monkey is witnessing a sharp increase in Kasauli tehsil owing to loss of habitat in the last few years. Scores of big and small hotels and resorts have come up in every nook and corner …
GUWAHATI: It took three years of ground research for Prabhat Goswami to come up with what has been called the first novel based on man-elephant conflict to be published in the past 35 years! Sukula Hatir Khus by Prabhat Goswami is a novel that traces the man-elephant conflict in Assam …
Forest and Environment Minister Bijayshree Routray on Tuesday informed members in the Assembly that 175 elephants have died in the State during the last 10 years due to electrocution and other accidents. In a written reply to a question from Amar Prasad Satpathy (BJD), the Minister said during the same …
In a move to bring down the man-animal conflict and early and safe rescue of wildlife, forest department has created four new rescue teams for Indore, Dhar, Jhabua and Alirajpur. Each team will be consist of 8 to 10 forest personnel including forest ranger and forest guards, they will be …
Man-animal conflict has led to the killing of a male tiger near the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary in north Kerala on Sunday. The forest officials shot dead the beast which apparently had been attacking domestic animals of the human settlement near the sanctuary. Although the issue has been a routine affair …
Conservation can be achieved through the judicious and context-specifi c use of protectionist and inclusionary approaches either in seclusion or conjunction. A response to Nitin Rai, "Green Grabbing in the Name of the Tiger" (EPW, 20 October 2012).
With loss of habitat and rising incidents of human-bear conflicts plaguing the sloth bear population in Rajasthan, the state government has drawn up an ambitious conservation plan for the nocturnal animal. During a recent survey conducted by the Wildlife Trust of India, the sloth bear population was found to be …
Recent efforts to reduce collisions between elephants and trains traversing natural habitats and corridors used by the animals appear to have made gains in Assam. Monitoring the movement of elephants in various times of the year, and information quickly passed on to railway authorities have prevented possible incidents which could …
The 21st International Conference on Bear Research and Management (IBA 2012) will open in New Delhi on Monday. Experts from 35 countries will present 180 research papers in the five-day conference. The conference is being held for the first time in India which has four of eight bear species found …
To contain man-bear conflict effectively, the state government plans to have a comprehensive census of bears. Two species of this wild beast have been killing the people in the state due to fragmentation of their habitat over the years. The state has two important species of the bear - Asiatic …
Recent leopard attacks in the city and capture of a third leopard from Aarey Colony this week have rekindled the man-animal conflict debate. Under pressure after three attacks this month, the Thane forest department captured a third leopard, a male, at around 8.30 pm on Monday. Same day morning they …
George Schaller, wildlife biologist, is also a conservationist. He has not only studied prominent species such as tigers, gorillas, jaguars and pandas but is also credited with having rediscovered two animals believed extinct, the saola of Laos and the Vietnamese warty pig. Schaller, who has travelled across the globe since …
