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 …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Forest rangers in the State have threatened to go on a mass casual leave on July 5 if immediate action is not taken to prevent recurring attacks against them. This was announced by the Kerala Forest Rangers
In the Sundarbans mangrove forest in the Gangetic delta (10,284 km2: 58.5% in Bangladesh, 41.5% in India) human-tiger conflicts are more frequent than in any other tiger area of the world. Only a limited number of tiger victim cases reach the public. The term victim is used here for people …
KOCHI: People in Edayar are gripped by fear. Though the four-day long search for the leopard has come to an end, the people are terror-stricken. The police and the authorities concerned have ruled out the presence of any man-eater in the vicinity. But the locals believe that the leopard will …
Ranchi, June 27: The state forest department has plans for protecting jumbos in the tribal heartland. With incidents of human-animal conflict increasing, the Union ministry of environment and forests has decided to improve elephant habitats and corridors to prevent such conflicts under Project Elephant. Launched in 1992, Project Elephant is …
There has been increased funding for wildlife conservation efforts in recent years. These funds have largely been spent on "habitat improvement" activities. In the absence of a scientific evaluation of such activities, inappropriate management of landscapes has led to human-wildlife conflicts in certain areas. Moreover, funds are being used for …
A wild cat has struck once again in Bicholim on Wednesday night, killing a calf at Wavti-Vathadev, Bicholim. According to reports, the leopard attacked a calf belonging to one Nilesh Nigalye from Wavti. At about 2.30 am on Wednesday, the Nigalye family heard some commotion in their cowshed and rushed …
NEW DELHI: The government has granted Rs. 25 crore for relocating 181 Gujjar families from the core regions of the Corbett Tiger Reserve. To avoid conflicts Over a period of time, a total of 400 families would be relocated to avoid man-animal conflicts in the reserve, a release by the …
On the one hand it was a major shot in the arm for the Kamala Nehru Zoo in Madhya Pradesh, with the hatching of 16 baby crocodiles of the endangered reptile species; on the other hand there were reports of
PALAKKAD: The farmers in the Pudussery-Malampuzha belt have threatened to begin cooking inside the civil station here if their demand to chase away the wild elephants into the forests is not met. The farmers, who came in a group led by Mohandas Pannimada, Pudussery Srinivasan, T Rajan Master and K …
Indrani Dutta Kolkata: This is a man-animal conflict of another kind. In the nearly year-old gunfight between security forces and Left Wing Extremist rebels and also due to the activity of the LWE in general in the Jangalmahal forest area, elephants are increasingly being forced to escape from the woods …
Ananya Dutta KOLKATA: Two tigers were trapped in quick succession by the authorities of the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve on Tuesday to mitigate man-animal conflict on the estuarine islands, officials of the West Bengal Forest Department said on Wednesday. The tigers had strayed into the inhabited areas in Samshernagar and Kalitala, …
M.T. Shiva Kumar Bangalore: To address the intractable human-animal conflict and to monitor the movement of rogue elephants, the Karnataka Forest Department has begun radio collaring them. For the first time in the State, the department successfully fitted radio collars onto two pachyderms in Hassan on Monday. The department plans …
Mahouts are a specialized class of people with a proud professional background. However, the profession is losing its appeal owing to the dwindling importance of captive elephants. We have assessed their incomes, number elephants, background and human casualties by captive elephants through extensive surveys in three captive elephant management systems …
Seven people have died of attacks by wild elephants while five wild elephants have been shot dead by cultivators and poachers in the North Western Wildlife Zone during the last three weeks. The Wildlife Department reported two deaths from Karuwalagaswewa, two from Anamaduwa and one from Ritigala from wild elephant …
A tiger that mauled five heads of cattle at Devanur village in Gonikoppa of Kodagu district recently, met with a similar fate after the Forest department trapped it early Thursday and packed off the injured big cat to the Mysore zoo to recuperate. In its bid to escape from the …
This FAO study analyses national legislation on wildlife management in 12 countries in Asia and Oceania. It identifies strengths and weaknesses of legal frameworks in promoting sustainable wildlife management and proposes options to support empowerment of the poor. Authored by Elsa Tsioumani and Elisa Morgera, this study presents a comparative …
May 5 2010 will probably go down the annals of wildlife history as the first major step taken by the government of Maharashtra for the protection of tigers that are dwindling faster than the receding forest that protects them. In a boost in and around Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR), the …
Janjheli (Mandi): The very existence of Shikari Devi Wildlife Sanctuary is under threat as the wildlife wing has proposed to take out 110 villages from the sanctuary
