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 …
Leopards straying into in villages nestling along the forest fringes in the State, attacking people and their cattle have become a matter of serious concern. The killing of a healthy female leopard that had strayed into the small hamlet of Angamoozhy in the Ranni forest division by an unruly mob …
Lookout towers have been put up inside Neyyar, Peppara, and Agasthyavanam forests to spot wild animals. At 6 a.m. on all days, except Sunday, Bhagavan Kani, a forest tribal, clambers up a narrow bamboo ladder to get to a watch house atop a tall tree deep inside the Neyyar Wildlife …
JORHAT: During the last five years, in Upper Assam, at least 50 leopards lost their lives at the hands of the human beings. Shrinking of forest cover and shortage of food have forced the animals to transgress into human habitations in search of food and that is why, they are …
Wildlife officials don't usually base hunting policies on how the public feels about an animal. But the black bear seems to be different. The revered king of the forest has bounced back from near-extinction to being a nuisance in some areas. Some states are trying to figure out if residents …
The Steel Authority of India (SAIL) and the Wildlife Warden office of Odisha's Forest & Environment Department are on a collision course over the proposed elephant corridor in the State. SAIL chairman Chandra Sekhar Verma, who called on Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday, tried to end this impasse. According …
Poachers have killed more than 200 elephants in Cameroon in just six weeks, in a "massacre" fuelled by Asian demand for ivory. A local government official said heavily armed poachers from Chad and Sudan had decimated the elephant population of Bouba Ndjida National Park in Cameroon's far north in a …
An entire village has been relocated in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan to protect tigers, officials say. More than 350 people from 82 families in Umri village, in the Sariska tiger reserve, moved to a new location. The number of tigers in Sariska had dwindled to zero before growing …
Factors that influence learning and the spread of behavior in wild animal populations are important for understanding species responses to changing environments and for species conservation. In populations of wildlife species that come into conflict with humans by raiding cultivated crops, simple models of exposure of individual animals to crops …
JAMMU: Highlighting the State's rich bio-diversity and uniqueness of being land of rich fauna and flora, Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah on Friday emphasized the need for protection and preservation of this individuality of Jammu and Kashmir. Chairing the 2nd meeting of State Board for Wildlife (SBW), the Chief Minister, who …
‘Concerted efforts necessary to prevent human-elephant conflict' A day-long sensitisation programme under the Tamil Nadu Biodiversity and Greening Project for members of Village Forest Councils and anti-poaching watchers was organised by the Nilgiris North division of the Forest Department here on Friday.Listing the objectives and use of such programmes, District …
JORHAT: Nikhil Bharat Krishak Sabha, Jorhat district committee today staged a demonstration at the gate of the Deputy Commissioner’s office, protesting against the failure of the district administration and the Forest Department to protect the lives and properties of the villagers of the north-west region in the Jorhat district from …
MUSHALPUR: Eastern Himalayan region is identified as one of the 34 biodiversity hotspots in the world. Manas Tiger Reserve, which is included under Eastern Himalayan region, is also known as the habitat of flagship species like Asian elephant and Indian rhinoceros. This tiger reserve, also adorned as a biosphere reserve, …
Extreme biotic pressure has taken the man-animal conflict to alarming levels in the forested area stretching across Raisen, Hoshangabad and Sehore districts adjoining the state capital. Over the last several months there have been a number of tiger sightings not only on the periphery of Bhopal but on a particular …
The High Court of Karnataka on Tuesday directed the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to file an affidavit for ‘interfering with the court proceedings’ in the matter of setting up a task force on man-elephant conflict in Hassan district. While finalising the names of members for the task …
Experts have made several recommendations to the government including long distance translocation of jumbos to resolve the man-animal conflict in Sakaleshpur taluk of Hassan district. After a daylong workshop on Saturday organised by the Forest Department, Forest Minister C P Yogeeshwara said, that the experts have suggested that the area …
To prevent the pachyderms from straying into human habitations The Forest Department has completed the work of identification of land, demarcation and removal of exotic weeds to facilitate tilling of the lands for creating fodder resource inside the reserve forest to prevent wild elephants from straying into human habitations. Elephants …
SHILLONG: The recent incident where a wildlife staff was trampled to death by a wild elephant has once again opened up the debate over man-animal conflicts. This was not the first time that a man was killed by a wild elephant as in the past too some people have either …
Majority of the tiger habitat in Indian subcontinent lies within high human density landscapes and is highly sensitive to surrounding pressures. These forests are unable to sustain healthy tiger populations within a tiger-hostile matrix, despite considerable conservation efforts. Ranthambore Tiger Reserve (RTR) in Northwest India is one such isolated forest …
AGARTALA: With the increasing incidences of man–monkey conflicts over the year in different parts of the state, the Tripura government has mooted the intension to set up a Primate National Park in southern part of the state with an exclusive enclosure for monkeys. According to report, the state forest department …
Legal action against forest officials who fail to check encroachment of forest land, illegal felling of trees GUWAHATI: The Assam Government has decided to raise a new battalion to exclusively protect the forests and wetlands in the State. “The Chief Minister has given approval to raise the battalion for the …
