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 …
Sunny Sebastian One of the young male tigers found dead outside the Ranthambhor National Park over the past weekend JAIPUR: Seasoned conservationist Harsh Vardhan has cautioned the Rajasthan authorities against more tiger deaths on account of man-animal conflict in the environs of the world famous Ranthambhor tiger reserve. About a …
Paw Prints Suggest It Was The Same Animal: DCF Anita Karne Vijaysinh Parmar | TNN Rajkot: Exactly a month after it mauled to death two women in Ishwariya village of Junagadh district, the leopard responsible for the killings was identified by forest officials on Wednesday. Junagadh range forest officials confirmed …
A leopard attacked a dog at Wavti-Vathadev, Bicholim, there by creating panic among villagers on Saturday night. According to villagers, the leopard strayed near the residence of one Pandurang Gawde from Wavti-Vathadev and attacked the dog sleeping outside the house.
DEHRA DUN: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank has called for urgent steps to reduce man-animal conflict and ensure ways to provide better security to the wildlife. Presiding over a meeting of the State Wildlife Board here on Friday, Mr. Nishank expressed distress over the increasing rate of man-animal conflict. …
DEHRA DUN The prestigious Indian Military Academy here is facing a threat of the third kind. The threat to the residents living inside the high security complex comes in the form of leopards that make an appearance at their own will forcing the officers and Gentlemen Cadets to be extra …
Junagadh: A leopard was killed in a territorial infighting between two big cats in a village of Sutrapada taluka on Friday night, said forest department officials on Saturday. According to officials, the incident occurred on the outskirts of Matana village near Dhamlej in Sutrapada taluka where shepherds herding their cattle …
Nearly 10 persons were injured when a leopard attacked villagers at Vandaru Nadubettu and Kakkunje regions of Kota in Udupi taluk on Friday. The leopard made its appearance at Vandaru Nadubettu village at around 9.15 am and injured a villager Rajani (37). It attacked Rajani and cut her flesh from …
The committee is expected to give a comprehensive plan, which will help manage all the issues related to elephants THE government had set up an expert committee on `Project Elephant' a week ago to look into all is- sues pertaining to elephant popu- lation and th- reats in the coun- …
Coimbatore: Considering the fast dwindling population of tigers across the country as well as the increasing man-animal conflicts owing to elephants in four States, Union Minister for Environment and Forests, Jairam Ramesh on Thursday reiterated the need for visible and objective implementation of Project Elephant on the lines of Project …
KRISHNAGIRI: One person was injured when a wild elephant attacked him near Hosur on Wednesday morning. Local residents said that Chinna Govindan (45) was attacked by a herd of 13 wild elephants near his field in Ulagam Ramapuram near Hosur. Chinna Govindan had gone to his agriculture field without knowing …
With threats to elephants and their habitats increasing in India, the Union Government has decided to constitute a task force to come up with a detailed picture so that a comprehensive strategy could be considered and adapted for their conservation. Well-placed sources revealed that the Union Minister of Environment and …
were trying to chase away the animal, who was strolling in a tobacco farm on outskirts of the village. Seven persons have also received minor injuries. While Bhadran Congress MLA Rajendrasinh Parmar and other office-bearers of Anand
NEW DELHI: Despite being seen as a "success'' story in tiger conservation, the Corbett Tiger Reserve now presents a man-animal conflict scenario aggravated due to rising big cat numbers and rampant encroachment by tourist resorts that has pushed up human incursions into the reserve and its buffer zones. Things came …
The farmers and plantation growers are having sleepless nights due to the rogue elephant menace in the region. The pack of rogue tuskers have already destroyed large areas of cultivated fields, areca and coffee crops. A pack of four to five tuskers coming from Bhadra Reserve Forest are said to …
METTUR: Farmers of villages in and around Kolathur have urged the Department of Forest to erect solar fence to prevent elephant herd from straying into their villages and fields. They claimed that since River Palar was fast drying up, the elephant herd in search of water had started straying into …
AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO The authorities of the famous Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) in Orissa's Mayurbhanj district have pressed into service three domesticated elephants to keep a watch on the movement of a herd of rouge jumbos, which has been causing depredations at some villages in the locality. The captive elephants …
Muralidhara Khajane Not one elephant has been electrocuted in Chamarajanagar in the last 18 months MYSORE: Even as the Forest Department is planning to erect elephant-proof barricades to a length of 547 km in different wildlife sanctuaries in Karnataka to reduce man-animal conflict, forest officials of Chamarajanagar have succeeded in …
Troubled by continuing human-animal conflicts that have claimed many lives on both sides in the Jawadhu hill range, the forest department and district administration of Tiruvannamalai plans to tag the matriarch of an elephant herd with a microchip to track the group
