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 …
A millennium later, the range of devices that farmers use to keep elephants at bay is a tribute to the ingenuity of both, animals and humans. In parts of elephant country, farmers complain that none of the commonly used methods such as torch lights and bursting fire crackers work anymore.
Based on our studies in Norway and India, and the rapidly expanding scientific literature in this field, it is safe to say that human-wildlife conflicts are a universal state of affairs. This is a serious issue because it represents a long term threat to the persistence of wildlife as well …
As we hurtle headlong into the twenty-first century creating technologies, breathing development, and grabbing land and resources, most of us will readily acknowledge that we may be harming the natural world by our actions and that we must do what we can to correct this. Judging from the enthusiastic response …
Human-wildlife conflict is widespread in today’s South Asia and the wider world. Forty-seven elephants, seven leopards and two tigers have been killed in the last twenty months in the forests of northern Bengal. The deaths of elephants were caused in most cases by speeding trains. The problem of human-animal conflict …
Pushing ever closer to protected areas and wild lands are farms and settlements, the porous margins becoming the frontlines of human-ungulate conflict. Arati Rao explores the dynamics at these edges, the main players and how their perceptions affect reality.
The struggle to protect the rapidly vanishing tiger is getting murkier by the day. Up to 100,000 families are slated for displacement, ostensibly to secure India’s tiger habitats. Unfortunately, most of the relocation taking place violates the law and may end up creating more conflicts that cause the tiger’s decline.
Jammu: The Government has decided to formulate comprehensive conservation projects for twin lakes of Mansar and Surinsar with a special focus on the restoration of the habitats and expansion of green cover in the surroundings of the two prestigious water bodies. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting chaired …
The struggle to protect the rapidly vanishing tiger is getting murkier by the day. Up to 100,000 families are slated for displacement, ostensibly to secure India’s tiger habitats. Unfortunately, most of the relocation taking place violates the law and may end up creating more conflicts that cause the tiger’s decline. …
Yagnesh Mehta | TNN Surat: Forest officials will get special protective gears so as to save themselves from the attacks of man-eating leopard on them. At least four persons have lost their lives in the past few weeks in leopard attacks in Mandvi taluka of Surat district. This has forced …
Radio collaring exercise being experimented New model elephant proof trenches to be set up Coimbatore: Forest Minister N. Selvaraj said Tamil Nadu would soon adopt satellite-aided radio collaring method to track movement of elephant herds to prevent man-animal conflicts along the forest boundaries. The radio collaring exercise was currently being …
The Odisha government on Thursday decided to create more forests in the areas where elephants inhabiting in the state. A decision to this effect was taken in the meeting of Divisional Forest Officers (DFOs) presided over by the chief minister Naveen Patnaik at the State Secretariat here. The meeting revealed …
KALPETTA: After a three-decade long battle, the farming communities living inside the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary is getting freedom from the man-animal conflict. The empowerment committee of the Central Ministry of Environment and Minister of Forests has given a green signal for the rehabilitation of the trapped farming communities, including tribes …
BHUBANESWAR: Close to 20 per cent elephants in Orissa are outside the sanctuaries and are involved in the growing man-animal conflict in the State. Every year 55 elephants die of various reasons, including poaching, while another 16 are hit by accidents. Annually, 55 persons are killed by the elephants, damaging …
Chilli-based repellents have shown promise as deterrents against crop-raiding elephants in Africa. The authors experimented with ropes coated with chilli-based repellent as a cheap alternative to existing elephant crop raid deterrent methods in India.
KOLKATA, 1 Nov: In a move that could harm both the revenue generation of the government and the prospect of tourism industry, the state forest department has issued a ban on construction of new resorts within and around one kilometre periphery of the seven wildlife sanctuaries in north Bengal. The …
A Buffer zone for the famous Panna Tiger reserve in Madhya Pradesh has hit a roadblock with Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan saying he is not in favour of it, observing one cannot "destroy" Panna and just let the tigers "survive." "Humans are more valuable than tigers. One cannot destroy …
The Assam government has ordered an enquiry by the chief wildlife warden to ascertain the cause of death of at least four wild elephants, which were suspected to have been poisoned by villagers in the past two weeks in Assam. The enquiry has been ordered after Union environment minister Jairam …
Jaipur: The male tiger now at Keoladeo in Bharatpur is the same one that attacked forest ranger Daulat Singh Shaktawat on August 20 on the periphery of the Ranthambore National Park. Forest department officials said its pictures have been taken at the bird sanctuary with the help of trap cameras.
Guwahati, Oct 14: Human-elephant conflict has reached alarming proportions in Assam with at least four wild Asiatic elephants being poisoned by the villagers in the past one week, wildlife authorities said.
