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 …
Rachna Singh | TNN Jaipur: Human intervention in the tiger reserve is proving costly with a third man being mauled by the animal in Ranthambore in four months. In fact, several efforts by the government towards tiger conservation have failed to yield result despite several crores spent on the project. …
Mahesh Joshi For the past eight years, standing crops of the three tehsils of Kannad, Gangapur, Vaijapur and some parts of Phulambri in Aurangabad district lay vulnerable, not only to drought and heavy rains, but also to deer herds.The threat has become particularly severe over the past three years with …
GUWAHATI, Aug 12: Encroachment over forest land has drastically reduced the roaming field for elephants, resulting in frequent man-elephant clashes that has claimed nearly 500 lives in the last ten years. Lack of an adequate space for the elephants to lead its usual life is at the crux of the …
Aug. 12: With fresh pugmarks of a female leopard noticed along the Tirumala footpath on Wednesday night, the Tirupati wildlife division authorities stepped up their efforts to trap it. The chief conservator of forests (wildlife), Mr P. Mallikarjuna Rao, said on Thursday that the animal
Hundreds of villagers of Hanabalu hobli of Sakleshpur taluk submitted a memorandum to MLA H K Kumaraswamy urging him to put an end to the menace of wild elephants in the region.MLA H K Kumaraswamy inspecting agriculture fields damaged by wild elephants at Acchanahalli village in Hanbalu hobli in Sakleshpur …
R Haldorai | ENS SOON, residents living near forest will be relieved from the wild elephant menace. A Kovai-based engineering college and the Forest department have jointly developed a prototype device to detect the intrusion of elephants into agricultural fields, railway tracks or farms. Professors R Jayaparvathy and SJ Sugumar …
Great ape ranges coincide with some of the poorest countries of the world – particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Great apes attract a great deal of conservation interest and funding, due to their close genetic relationship with humans and their status as global flagship species for conservation. Highly endangered great apes …
JORHAT, July 29: Three persons were trampled by wild elephants at Majuli late last night taking the toll of those killed by elephants to six in the district this year. A Forest Department official said that a couple
Siliguri, July 28: Over 13,000 hectares of forest land has been encroached upon across Bengal, the state forest minister has admitted while expressing apprehension that if the trend continues the man-animal conflict will be on the rise. Till March 31, 2007, a total of 13,048.376 hectares of forest land had …
Ahmedabad: If the sloth bear attacks on human were more in the summers in Jessore in Gujarat, their numbers were higher during the winters in the adjoining sanctuary at Mount Abu in Rajasthan. A study titled, Ecology, Behaviour and Interaction of Highly Dense Population of Sloth Bear and Human
''Let the government decide the value for the death of those rogue elephants which indulge in destruction. The villagers are ready to pay for the death of the elephants''
JORHAT, July 16: The Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad (AJYCP) submitted a memorandum to the Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife) seeking emergent steps to stop depredation by wild elephants in the three districts of Jorhat, Golaghat and Sivasagar. The youth body suggested that since the elephant herd, for the last …
An elephant was found with a gun shot wound while another died in two separate incidents in the State on Tuesday. A 10-year-old female elephant was found injured with gun shot at Mettluhola near Nagarahole National Park. It is suspected that farmers on the edge of Veeranahosahalli range might have …
ELEPHANT THREAT Our nearly 650 acres of tea, coffee and spices plantations have been in existence for over a century without elephants' threat as this was not their corridor. But, now, elephants were frequenting us and destroying crops ENDANGERED by frequenting wild elephants, planters here have urged the government to …
Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa had assured to provide a compensation of Rs 2 lakh for the families of those who were killed in wild elephant attack in Kodagu and also to initiate measures to check the wild elephant menace in the district, said MLA M P Appacchuranjan. MLA Appacchuranjan …
Tusker menace has started again at Banakal hobli and this time crops worth lakhs of rupees have been destroyed at Kotrekere village in the hobli alone. Rogue elephants have been barging into plantations and destroying coffee, cardamom, banana, areca and coconut crops. Though forest officials have been deployed in Kotrekere …
Palanpur: A leopard was killed by angry villagers of Tirth village in Vav Taluka in Banaskantha district on Sunday after it injured at least nine villagers, including a forest beat guard, police said. The shocking incident took place in presence of more than 30 police jawans and a dozen forest …
