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 …
The Sri Lankan government is to introduce an insurance scheme to compensate the people attacked by wild elephants. Agrarian Services and Wild Life Minister of Sri Lanka S.M. Chandrasena has said that the insurance scheme would compensate damages caused to life, property, and cultivation. He has said that the insurance …
Man-animal conflict Yalandur: The recent encounters between humans and animals has caused a lot of concern to wildlife conservationists all over the sub continent. An elephant and its calf seen in the BRT reserve in Yalandur taluk. Sindhuvalli Paramesh who is conducting research on the elephant corridors has submitted reports …
Deforestation is rapidly transforming primary forests across the tropics into human-dominated landscapes. Consequently, conservationists need to understand how different taxa respond and adapt to these changes in order to develop appropriate management strategies. Our two year study seeks to determine how wild Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii) adapt to living in …
The increasing war for space and food between man and animal has come into focus in around 20 villages under Loisingha block. While summer and water scarcity are causing untold miseries on the villagers, the fear of elephants has added to their woes. The elephants are ruling ponds in around …
Three members of a tribal family were killed by a tusker in Thoriasandha village under Bhuban forest range, 65 km from Dhenkanal, in the wee hours of Tuesday. The incident occurred when the family members were asleep in their hut. The tusker destroyed walls of a hut and trampled the …
Mysore witnessed chilling scenes on Wednesday after a young tusker and its mother, separated from a herd and strayed into the heart of the city, gored one person to death and killed a cow. The elephants that seemed to have strayed outside a diminishing elephant corridor
Forest department proposes plantation to check elephant menace The forest department has proposed a food paradise on the island of Majuli to rein in depredating elephants. Jorhat range officer Pankaj Kalita said the department has submitted a Rs 43-lakh proposal to Dispur to plant trees on 123 hectares of land …
All tourist facilities within five km of any protected area will be monitored by local communities to guard its environment and wildlife. According to the eco-tourism guidelines proposed by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests, the local communities will monitor the activities of tour operators to ensure that they …
Wildlife experts said that the government should focus on conserving the existing number of tigers rather than trying to increase the number as proposed by last year
These guidelines released by MoEF for voluntary village relocation in notified core critical tiger habitats of tiger reserves aim to ensure that in the process of conservation and protection of tigers, the rights of forest dwellers are respected. The Ministry has released a draft protocol /guidelines for voluntary village relocation …
Wild elephants trampled to death at least 50 people in the past 10 years alone in remote Langadu area with experts attributing the phenomenon to deforestation and infrastructure expansion exposing them to food scarcity. Every village under Langadu upazila of Rangamati district virtually turned elephant-battered localities as the marauding mammoth …
The state of Idaho has authorized sheriff's deputies in a tiny mountain town to kill wolves blamed for preying on pets and elk, a spokesman for the state fish and game department said on Tuesday. The move marks the second of two wolf kills sanctioned by Idaho less than two …
In a bid to ease the growing human-elephant conflict in the country, wildlife authorities said yesterday that moves were underway to restrict the habitat of rogue elephants to a 2500 acre jungle area in Veheragala, Lunugamvehera and Horawapathana. Wildlife Conservation Department, Director General, Chandrawansa Pathiraja said rogue elephants from other …
Federal protections for some 1,200 gray wolves in Montana and Idaho end on Thursday under unprecedented legislation passed by the U.S. Congress last month removing them from the endangered species list. The effective date of the de-listing, which places the wolves under state wildlife control and opens them to licensed …
Utter silence within the group. So silent you could hear a pin drop, yes, even in the long grass swaying on the plains of Masai Mara, Africa, where we were. On a safari there a few years ago, the wait to spot a leopard was excruciating
Drawing from Maharashtra experience in tackling leopard attacks, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has for the first time issued guidelines to tackle man-animal conflict across the country. Released last week, the MoEF booklet has been drafted after consultations with various state forest departments and experts working in …
The Department of Wildlife Conservation (DWLC) will establish a network of elephant sanctuaries for stubborn wild elephants, tuskers and orphaned baby elephants to keep them under safe custody. According to Agrarian Services and Wildlife Minister S M Chandrasena, under this programme these sanctuaries will be started in Horowpothana, Maduroya and …
Guidelines say animals should be released in the vicinity of capture The national guidelines for human-leopard conflict management have advised against relocating the captured animals, a practice widely followed in Kerala. If an animal has to be released, it should be done in the immediate vicinity of capture. Leopards are …
