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 …
ROURKELA: Villagers in the border pockets of Sundargarh are paying a heavy price with governments of Orissa, Jharkhand and Chhattishgarh going indifferent to the growing elephant menace. With the natural habitat of wild elephants getting shrunk, it has become a regular affair for the jumbos to stray into villages in …
While giving the elephant right of way, the recent recommendations of a task force are aimed at securing wildlife corridors by compensating and insuring those who live in its path Despite the fact that India
Tirupati/Kadiri, Sept. 8: A rabies-infected wolf on Wednesday created havoc in seven villages for about nine hours in Chittoor district, biting and scratching at least 40 people before angry villagers stoned the animal to death. The condition of at least two of the victims is said to be serious. The …
Urging the government to contain wild elephant menace and to announce compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the family of those who were killed in wild elephant attack, estate labourers under the aegis of United Plantation Workers Union staged a protest in Fort premises on Tuesday. The plantation workers took …
Guwahati, Sept. 5: The Elephant Task Force of the Union ministry of environment and forests has called for setting up of conflict management task forces in Sonitpur and Majuli, the two places in Assam that are witness to the highest incidents of human-elephant conflict. The move has been necessitated as …
One of the innovative recommendations of the recently submitted report of the Elephant Task Force (ETF), backed by the environment ministry, is to declare it India
Conservation Body To Be Set Up For Elephants On Line Of Big Cats: Ramesh TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: The government on Tuesday accepted the Elephant Task Force report and decided to set up a National Elephant Conservation Authority (NECA) along the lines of the one for endangered tigers. The …
Following the suggestion of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh, the Uttarakhand Government has decided to constitute a Jim Corbett Tiger Trust headed by Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and other 15-20 members. The Jim Corbett National Park is going to complete its 75 …
NEW DELHI: It is worshipped and used in religious rituals, but also slogs out in labour camps; it features prominently in our history and mythology, but is also an icon of modern India. In a bid to give elephant conservation the same momentum of national pride that
A major report by the Elephant Task Force submitted to the Ministry of Environment and Forests. The report lays out a comprehensive action agenda for protecting elephants in the wild and in captivity, and for addressing human-elephant conflict.
The current focus is on the dwindling tiger population but here's another big cat that is coming under the gun, literally. The hill state of Uttarakhand, once a safe haven for wildlife, has lost an incredible 535 leopards in the past decade, turning it into a graveyard for the graceful …
As the most abundant of the big cats of India, the leopard generally manages quite well, living quite close to habitations unobtrusively. A recent study in the Pune region recorded a density of 12 adult leopards in a 100 sq km, human-dominated landscape with a density of 200 people per …
Large Number Of Forest Guards Are A Demoralised Lot Anindo Dey | TNN Ranthambore: The stakes just went up against the tiger at the Ranthambore National Park. More than the man-animal conflict, it is the tussle between the villagers and foresters here that has left a more telling impact on …
P. Sudhakar Department of Forest plans to provide solar fencing TIRUNELVELI: The recent retrieval of carcasses of wild boars and sambar deer from the Tamirabharani and also from the bushes on the reserve forest periphery seems to be only a tip of the iceberg as good number of carcasses of …
Tirupati, Aug. 24: The chief conservator of forests (Wildlife), Mr P. Mallikarjuna Rao, said on Tuesday that the trap cages kept alongside the Tirumala footpath from Galigopuram to 7th mile point would be withdrawn and there would be no capturing of leopards until it was inevitable. Speaking to the media, …
Ananya DuttaKOLKATA: Two persons were killed in separate incidents when they were attacked by tigers in the Sunderbans over the weekend, officials of the Sunderban Tiger Reserve told The Hindu on Sunday.Samir Mandal, a resident of Emlibari village had gone fishing with a group of fishermen when their boat was …
Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa has appointed a committee headed by Deputy Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya to examine measures to curb human elephant conflict and its report would be handed over to the Economic Development Minister in two weeks time, Deputy Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said to the Daily News yesterday. The …
Entry of Cattle, Villagers Into Reserve Forest One Of The Main Reasons Behind Escalating Tiger Attacks Palak Nandi | TNN Sawai Madhopur: In an effort to restrict the movement of wild animals and cattle which wander into the tiger reserve for food, the height of the compound wall in the …
