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 …
Even as wildlife conservation activists began to complain that senior Forest Department officials are unwilling to take action against those responsible for the killing of a young leopard in Thodupuzha town in Idukki district, Forest Minister Benoy Viswam has confirmed that the animal had died of the unruly response of …
JORHAT, Dec 14: One Sunu Gowala (30) of Baghdhora line under Cinnamora Tea Estate of Jorhat district was killed in a jumbo attack at around 10.30 pm last night. According to the information, the elephant attacked the man while he was coming out from his house along with a number …
KENDRAPARA: Diwali is not round the corner, but villagers within Bhitarkanika National Park and its nearby areas are on a cracker-buying spree. Reason: They plan to drive out the prowling herds of wild boars and spotted deer feasting on standing crop. Bhitarkanika is home to the largest number of wild …
Lantana (Lantana camara), one of the world's most troublesome invasive weeds, has become a menace in most of the protected areas located in tropical and subtropical belt of India. The lantana-infested landscapes not only are impoverished as habitats of wildlife but also contribute to human-wildlife conflicts owing to diminished ecosystem …
With cases of bears straying out of their habitat and attacking people rising, mostly in the outlying areas close to forests, wildlife officials have started a pilot project of putting GPS collars around the necks of Himalayan black bears in a bid to study their movement and behavioural pattern. Officials …
S Kaththasami | ENS NORMAL life in nearly 20 villages along the Amaravathi river near Dharapuram has been under threat for the past three years from the crocodiles in the river. Many farmers and villagers encountered the crocodiles that escaped from Amaravathi dam during floods and took shelter in the …
The southern part of Hojai from Hawaipur to Komrakata Reserve Forest (RF) is prone to the menace of a wild herd of elephants. Every year the herd comes out of Karbi Anglong forests and after crossing river Kopili, which constitutes an elephant corridor, enters Hojai RF in search of fodder, …
JORHAT, Nov 19: Terror struck Dhakuakhana village when a Royal Bengal Tiger sprang from the bushes and killed two men on two consecutive days, a few days ago. The Forest Department swung into action to try to tranquillize the tiger but in vain. Day before, the tiger struck once again …
The Forest department is finally waking to the fact that it is the generation next that has to be seriously involved in the processes of conservation. As the forest areas in the state open for the tourists this season in the state from November 15, Katarniyaghat is taking special initiative …
Disruption of traditional migratory routes due to rapid industrialisation and infrastructure development is one of the main reasons for the rising number of human-elephant conflicts, say nature conservation division (NCD) officials. According to records with NCD, wild elephants destroyed about 132 acres of land in 2007 alone. The worst recorded …
Bashaarat Masood In the first such move in India, the J-K Wildlife Department has put satellite collars on black bears to study their ecological behaviour and to help prevent the man-animal conflict from escalating. A team of researchers from the Wildlife Institute of India, which is studying the ecology of …
The residents of Thambarombuwa village in the Kotawehera DS Division of Nikaweratiya are living in constant fear of wild elephants that roam into the human habitats after dusk. A rogue elephant that pulled down the walls of a house gulped down a stock of paddy in the house. The owner …
This document addresses three of the four Biodiversity Conservation Components in terms of providing policy and methodological guidance on eco-development, including ecotourism, and mitigation of humanwildlife conflicts. This is complemented by a conceptual framework and action plan for their practical application in Satkosia Gorge, the sanctuary where participatory micro-planning processes …
The main threat to the survival of primates in Sumatra is habitat destruction, but there is also an increasing problem of conflict with local people due to crop-raiding. This study characterizes the perceived impacts of primate crop-raiding in four villages in North Sumatra. Ninety-eight semi-structured interviews were conducted to collect …
Sheba Mridha sobs uncontrollably as she looks at the thick mangrove forest on the other bank of Ganral river at Gosaba delta in Sundarbans. She was widowed a couple of months ago when a Royal Bengal Tiger killed her husband Ramesh Mridha (32) as he was catching crabs in the …
D. Radhakrishnan Udhagamandalam: Even as the Mudumalai-Bandipur road across the Nilgiris-Karnataka border continues to be in the news on account of the ban imposed recently on vehicular movement during night to protect wild animals, an incident on Monday has brought into sharp focus the threat posed by speeding vehicles to …
Tigers are symbols of all that is powerful, mystical, and beautiful in nature. But wild tigers are in crisis, having fallen in numbers from about 100,000 in 1900 to just 3,200 today as a result of adverse human activities, including habitat destruction and a huge illegal trade in tiger parts. …
Statistically the death rate of wild elephants due to the human-elephant conflict increased this year when compared to the previous year. Director General of the Wildlife Conservation Department Ananda Weerasuriya said 160 deaths were reported last year and this increased to 170 elephants for the last nine months of the …
