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 …
Yagnesh Mehta | TNN Surat: It is not known whether this was to take revenge on a man-eating leopard on prowl in Vadpada in Tapi district. Some villagers could not stop themselves from eating the bait of the leopard on Saturday while living under the fear of becoming a piece …
According to investigating officials, insecticide was used for poisoning wild animals who pose threat to livestock The poisonous substance, organophosphorus insecticide, the traces of which were found from the viscera of ST1 tiger in Sariska, was also used in killing two tiger cubs in Ranthambhore in March 2010. Officials involved …
Anindo Dey | TNN Jaipur: It’s official: the first tiger ST-1 relocated to Sariska from the Ranthambore reserve was poisoned to death. Forensic test reports have confirmed the presence of poison in body parts of the big cat. “The forensic tests have confirmed presence of an insecticide,’’ said H M …
The tiger found dead in Sariska reserve in November was poisoned, according to a forensic report whose finding may lead to concern over the safety of other translocated big cats there.
Forest authorities seek CID probe, additional police presence near the Reserve The worst fears of the country's tiger lovers have come true with the FSL (forensic) report on the carcass of the first tiger re-introduced in Sariska Tiger Reserve (STR) attributing the death to poisoning. The news does not augur …
The report of the Elephant Task Force acknowledges the gravity of human-elephant conflicts, and makes a set of potentially far-reaching and forward-looking suggestions to alleviate them. The spirit of most of them is admirable and positive, but the devil, as always, is in the implementation. Managing conflict is as much …
An assessment of the task force report, both in terms of the value of its recommendations and implementability and a comparison with the implementation of the Tiger Task Force recommendations of 2005.
The adivasi people living near the Orissa-Andhra Pradesh border face the challenge of having to live with elephants which, according to the Elephant Task Force, have been
Two wild elephants destroyed crops worth thousands of rupees near Hebbal village in the taluk on Thursday. Two wild elephants seen destroying crops near Belur. DH PhotoThe wild elephant menace has continued in villages of Hebbal, Jogihalli and other surrounding villages from last few months, with no steps being taken …
Villagers in Paldi and Bhichi are on all-night vigil as the forest guards have failed them. The panic was doubled as pugmarks of a panther were spotted by the divisional forest officer (DFO), Anil Kapoor in the Bhichi village. Early on Wednesday, the villagers of Bhichi heard roars of a …
The jungles are a favoured haunt of prized elephants and the government is taking steps to preserve them in their natural habitat Eigh teen months after the end of island
ERODE: A male panther was found dead in the Hassanur forest range in the Sathyamangalam division in Tamil Nadu on Tuesday morning. It is suspected that the animal was poisoned to death. Forest personnel found the carcass of the grown-up animal at Sivan Irukan Pallam and informed senior officials.
Much of human-carnivore conflict is supposed to be either accidental or caused by old/injured animals, but how do we explain deliberate attacks on people by healthy, mature carnivores?
Large carnivore conservation is akin to a multi-billion dollar riddle. Scores of researchers, activists, bureaucrats, politicians, livestock herders, and hunters each hold a clue to the solution, but cannot seem to be able to agree on how to bring it together. The large carnivores themselves are far from cooperative be …
A hundred years ago, humans almost exterminated all large mammals in Norway. Government protection has since ensured the overwhelming return of species, only to result in a newer problem: CONFLICT.
Over the last several millennia, people have made steady inroads into the elephants’ natural habitat through agriculture and settlements along river valleys. With their habitats now fragmented, degraded and compressed, these mega-herbivores spill into human settlements thereby setting the stage for a highly volatile combat.
