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 …
Livestock depredation by carnivores has become an important hurdle in conservation of predators at the top of the food chain. To develop feasible recommendations to minimize this conflict, it is important to learn the circumstances of the predation events and attitudes of people. We assessed the circumstances for livestock depredation …
KRISHNAGIRI: The Communist Party of India has demanded that wild boar should be delisted from the Wild Life Protection Act and compensation disbursed for the crop loss by the wild boars in the district. Over 200 members of the CPI staged a dharna near the Kundarapalli Koot Road on the …
MORE than 200 people from Upparathandapalli village near Hosur resorted to a road blockade on Sunday protesting against the forest department for not taking any action to prevent the elephants from entering into human habitats. Traffic on the Hosur-Dharmapuri National Highway was paralysed for more than three hours due to …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The State government has prepared an action plan to check attacks on people and crops by wild animals in various parts of the State, Food Minister C. Divakaran told the Assembly on Thursday. Responding to a calling-attention motion moved by Aryadan Mohammed, Nilambur MLA (Congress), the Minister said the …
Siliguri, Dec. 22: The Centre has decided to clear encroachments from 183 elephant corridors in the country to stem the rate of man-animal conflicts arising from the rise in jumbo population.
Divya Gandhi BANGALORE: Junnar in Maharashtra was like any other prosperous agricultural taluk, where improved irrigation helped farmers switch to cash crops. Cattle, goats and fowl supplemented their income. But in 2001, a deadly phenomenon struck the region almost overnight: leopards, known to prey often on cattle, dogs and pigs …
Dec. 15: People living in the border villages of AP-Tamil Nadu in Kuppam mandal have been living with fear following movement of leopards close to their habitations from the nearby forest since last three weeks. Moreover, forest range officer, Mr Mogileswar Rao, also confirmed about leopards prowling in the region. …
A herd of wild elephants entered a maize field near Palani on Tuesday night and damaged crops worth `1.5 lakh. Villagers from Ayakudi near Palani had cultivated maize and paddy at Sattapa rai and other areas on the foothills of Kodaikanal range. They also raised coconut palm tree, guava and …
Recent research on leopard behaviour shows capturing the problem animals and releasing them elsewhere only shifts the locale of the people-animal conflict. At first glance Akole taluka in Ahmednagar district seems like any other taluka in western Maharashtra’s sugarcane belt. It seems unlikely, even unexpected, yet in Akole people, their …
R. Arivanantham JUMBO PROBLEM:Farmers staging a road roko in front of the forest check post in Denkanikottai on Tuesday. DENKANIKOTTAI (KRISHNAGIRI DISTRICT): Over 600 farmers staged a road blockade in protest against the frequent crop destruction by wild elephants in Denkanikottai town in Krishnagiri district on Tuesday. They sat on …
Yagnesh Mehta | TNN Surat: Photographs of royalty posing with a gun in hand and a dead leopard at his feet belonged to the black-and-white era of the Raj. Hunting has been banned for nearly half a century in India. But a similar scene was played out near a hamlet …
Recent research on leopard behaviour shows capturing the problem animals and releasing them elsewhere only shifts the locale of the people-animal conflict. At first glance Akole taluka in Ahmednagar district seems like any other taluka in western Maharashtra’s sugarcane belt. It has densely populated and chaotic settlements, virtually no forest …
Steps have been initiated to move the Indo-Tibetan Border Police camp and remove other encroachments from the age-old Dehradun-Tanakpur-Nepal wildlife corridor. Official sources inform that the measures are being taken following a letter sent by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest to the Union Home Ministry. Acting on directions …
Wild elephants have destroyed crops grown in more than 30 acre land in Hulithimmapura and Jammapura in Lingadahalli hobli of Tarikere on Wednesday. Forest officials have suspected that the wild elephants must have belonged to the herd of a elephant which was killed recently due to electrocution. Farmers are seen …
Hyderabad, Dec. 7: A leopard which strayed into the Utupally village in the city outskirts at Parigi on Monday was trapped by the forest officials after tranquillising it. Two people, a police constable and an assistant conservator of forests, who were holding the nets to capture the wild cat sustained …
Barun S Mitra Russia recently hosted a summit in St Petersburg to focus attention on the plight of the tiger in the wild. This is the first international summit of this kind, where heads of states of Russia, China, Bangladesh and some of the other range countries gathered to discuss …
Jaipur/Alwar: With the state forest department intensifying probe into the death of male tiger ST-1, political interventions have started increasing, threatening to derail investigations. According to sources,
V.S. Palaniappan After straying into human habitat, tusker is taken back to the forest The release of the over 25-year-old marked the end of a 20-hour-operation The 4.5-tonne animal did not attack people or damage property Bhavani Sagar (Erode district): Sunday 2.45 a.m. at Bhavani Sagar, the captured tusker got …
