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 …
Anindo Dey | TNN Jaipur: There could be more than one tiger on the prowl in Rajasthan and neighbouring states from the Ranthambore National Park. The suspicion grew stronger after forest officials on Sunday discovered the carcass of a blue bull in Bharatpur. On a closer examination, not only tiger …
A herd of wild elephants destroyed standing crops and property worth several lakhs at Hodachahalli, Agani, Maragunda, Hanabalu hobli villages of the taluk recently. The main entrance gate and compound wall of Bhairaweshwara temple was damaged by the jumbos at Maragunda hills in Mudigere- Sakleshpur border region on same night. …
Jaipur: Forest officials from Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, who are on the trail of a tiger in Mathura which had strayed from Ranthambore National Park, sawits pug marks near Rajasthan border late on Tuesday. According to sources, forest officials spotted some pug marks near the Mathura refinery late in the …
A Satish PALAKKAD: If it was a rocky Munnar hill for some Chengara agitators, it is a land near a forest area at Attappadi, a part of the elephant corridor, for another group. The land, the government offered to the Chengara agitators at Kottathara village in Attappadi, is totally uninhabitable …
BHUBANESWAR: Concerned over the death of elephants due to electrocution, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today said that the State Government had prepared an elephant management plan and identified specific corridors for the pachyderms. Addressing a function to mark the 56th wildlife week here today, the Chief Minister said death of …
Villagers Living In Fear Anindo Dey & Neha Lalchandani | TNN Jaipur/New Delhi: The strayed tiger spotted near Mathura on Monday continued to elude forest officials for the second day. On Tuesday, the animal, identified as a young sub-adult male, was spotted about two to three times at different spots …
A city based non-governmental organisation (NGO) named Wing of Research in Local Development (WORLD) has chalked out a programme to save wild animals, especially panthers, in urban and agricultural farms. The organisation started a signature campaign on Monday. The conservation drive was formally launched by the chief minister Ashok Gehlot …
Populations and diversity of major species of concern in the park has provided somewhat robust. Several species, especially antelope, chinkara and sambhar are at critical risk. Maintenance of biodiversity at the Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary is made difficult by a range of forces, including forest degradation, grazing, road accidents, forest fire …
Similipal Biosphere Reserve of northern Orissa is one among the seven such reserves of India that form a part of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves. The overall objective of the Biosphere Reserve programme was to deal with one of the most important questions of reconciling conservation of biodiversity, quest …
Yet another leopard was trapped at the Cancanamodi area of Cuncolim in the wee hours of Wednesday. This is the second leopard trapped by the forest officials after locals sighted movements of wild cats in the locality. Locals had complained that the leopards, who were on the prowl in the …
On more robust population studies Population estimates are currently done through sighting and pug marks. While these are fine to establish the presence of a species, we need to know population demographics in sex ratio, age groups, number of birth and deaths (to understand the viability and health of the …
Arsikere, September 27, DHNS: Residents of Arsikere taluk are up in arms against forest officials for not taking any measures to stop attacks by a tusker, in the last few days. Having settled down for the past two months in the fields of Banavar Hobli, the tusker moved past Bendekere …
The death of seven elephants in a train hit in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district is a grim reminder that little has been done to stop such slaughter in various States. Assam and West Bengal account for two-thirds of elephant mortality in train hits, followed by Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu, Uttar …
Forest Minister C H Vijayshankar on Thursday said that a meeting of senior officials of the department would be held at Aranya Bhavan in Bangalore on September 27 to find solutions to man-animal conflict especially in villages situated very close to forests. Talking to reporters here, he expressed his grave …
JAIPUR: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has announced a series of measures to protect the tigers in the State. The State needs a balanced approach in development of eco-tourism while conserving its tiger habitats and the famous bird sanctuary, Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur, he said calling for public participation in …
Tango with nature India has been using lakes, ponds and baolis (step wells) since ancient times ('What monsoon means', July 16-31, 2010). Delhi was once replete with water bodies. In the past 50 years, government agencies started disbanding natural ponds, lakes and baolis, declaring their water untested, and therefore, unfit …
Setting aside environmental concerns and ignoring the threat to one of the most fertile belts in India, Uttar Pradesh government is set to start work on the eight-lane expressway along the Upper Ganga Canal. The 147.8 km expressway will connect Greater Noida in Gautam Budh Nagar district and the Uttar …
SEVERAL people living in Patyachapaani, a tribal hamlet inside Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) in suburban Mumbai, have been mauled by leopards in recent years. But they do not want to shift and are protesting the forest department's plan to relocate them in the forest fringe. About three months ago, …
Kurnool, Sept. 13: In the wake of wild animal attacks on cattle and humans, the forest department has concentrated on the leopard population to drive them back into the forests. Following a leopard attack on pilgrims trekking the Tirumala hillock, forest officials kept surveillance on their movements. They came to …
